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Telluride Film Festival 2013: A Wrap-Up

STS9 - Hollywood Palladium - 3/2/13

STS9 Hollywood Palladium 3/2/13 Any doubt that jam band culture is alive and healthy in Los Angeles was extinguished at Hollywood Palladium on Saturday night. Here, the heads of the greater L.A. area assembled for the experience of collective sonic ecstasy that is a Sound Tribe Sector 9 show. See ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival: Noah Baumbach, Sarah Polley Bring New Films

Lawrence Kasdan Interview

Back with a movie about his dog

Ten Questionable Bands Everyone Listened to at My College

See also: Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time: The Complete List Around the time OJ was acquitted I began college at a private liberal arts school in the lower midwest, a place where students who didn't get into Northwestern came to spend their parents' money on drugs. They also filled their dorm rooms ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival

Clooney collides with silent classics, while 3-D goes otherworldly

Glass Distilled: Moonshine, Or Great Vodka? Don't Get Telluride's Brad MacKenzie Started

homedistiller.orgCopper Is Usually Your Top Of The Line Beauty These Days, Even At Home​In the distilling world, vodka makers like Telluride Vodka's Brad MacKenzie often prefer column stills. In a nutshell, column stills (exactly what they sound like -- tall rather than squat) tend to make you ... More >>

Telluride: Down From The Mountain

Studios trek to Colorado festival in search of art-film street cred

Film Führer

Was Veit Harlan a Nazi, or did he just make their movies?

Banksy Revealed?

The Zorro of street art talks about his new film, Los Angeles and, of course, Mr. Brainwash

AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?

A changing film world — and hard times — means comp tickets

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Food On Film: "Know Your Mushrooms," Dude

Canadian director Ron Mann's film, "Know Your Mushrooms," one of a number of food-focused documentaries to come out this summer, finish ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest. ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Italian?

One year ago this week, I wrote with astonishment and anger about the omission of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-winning abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' nine-film "shortlist" for the 2007 Foreign Language Film Oscar. That ... More >>

Foundas on Film: How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Italian?

One year ago this week, I wrote with astonishment and anger about the omission of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Cannes-winning abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' nine-film "shortlist" for the 2007 Foreign Language Film Oscar. That ... More >>

AFI Fest Grows Up - Finally!

No, Er, Yes, Doubt

Mister Lonely, Harmony Korine's Way

The director on flying nuns and his Mexican Michael Jackson

AFI Film Fest 2007: Behind the Man Behind the Scenes

Man of Cinema raises the curtain on a little-known movie giant

In Search of Shyam Benegal

Beyond Bollywood

The Stasi Who Came in From the Cold

Listening in on The Lives of Others

Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

Le Pierre

There may be no single person who better embodies the Telluride spirit than Pierre Rissient, a lifelong cinephile who has attended Telluride for nearly all of its 33 years and whose resume is as varied as the mountain climate. One of the storied film buffs who inhabited the hallowed halls of Henri L ... More >>

Sunset Rising

With a handful of splashy new shops, Sunset Boulevard is becoming a red-hot furniture spot

Ojai at 60

Osvaldo Golijov and György Ligeti

The Brothers Grim

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne on making moving pictures

How Am I Not Myself

Welcome to AFI Fest 2005 — all of them

Days 5 & 6: The Midpoint

Halfway through this year's Toronto Film Festival, gossip about the festival's hits and misses has reached something of a fever pitch. As far as I've been able to gather, a few movies — Bennett Miller's Capote, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain among them ... More >>

Just Say Yes

Sally Potter sets the record straight on her new movie, its reviews (one in particular) and the realities of indie filmmaking

Hollywood Country

Don’t look for the soul of country music in glitzy Nashville — or even Bakersfield. It’s right here on the grand ole streets of L.A.

Nuts to You

Edited by Kateri Butler

Under the Skin

Novelist turned director Bruce Wagner

Weird Art and Science

Guy Maddin's primitive genius

Saving Ricky Tovar (page 1)

He should have been in school. Instead, he was in jail. And it would take his family, friends and teachers a month to get him out.