Tilda Swinton

Elysium Is Too Heavy for Matt Damon to Carry

Ginger & Rosa Review: Elle Fanning and Alice Englert Come of Age in 1960s London

How Did Caravaggio Influence Movies?

A LACMA film series asks the question

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Vindictive Office Supplies

This week, a bathroom in Tokyo becomes an artist's laboratory, a manmade geyser spews in a new video and hosiery makes paintings as awkward and ambivalent as human bodies. 5. Nailing it Chicago artist Dzine grew up in an underground nail salon. His mother, a first-generation Puerto Rican immigrant ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Tilda, Tsvian and Don Johnson

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

6 HBO David Milch Faulkner Adaptations We'd Like to See (With Suggested Casting)

Famed television writer and former Yale English instructor David Milch announced this week that he's agreed produce some of William Faulkner's works for HBO. There's no word yet on what he'll do, but he's clearly got a lot to work with -- nineteen novels, a hundred plus short stories, and some scree ... More >>

'Beauty Culture' Exhibit Is Full of Hot Women. That's the Problem

© Walter IoossDoes this challenge our traditional notions of beauty? Be quiet, you're distracting me.​ The Annenberg Space for Photography has been pulling out all the stops to promote its latest exhibit, "Beauty Culture" -- a collection of images that aims to explore "how feminine beauty is ... More >>

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Cannes 2011: Good Movies, Where Are You?

​ CANNES, France. The air is sweet, the food is fine, the company agreeable, but the movies so far... oy vey. With one exception: Inspired by the true story of a Tijuana beauty queen who got mixed up with the local narco gangsters, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala is a ferociously paced crime thri ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Teenage Death Trip Double Feature

Tilda Swinton in We Need To Talk About Kevin​ My Cannes 2011 began with a kind of American teenage death trip double feature: the world premieres of Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, and Gus Van Sant's Restless. The non-linear Kevin, based on a novel by Lionel Shriver, stars Tilda ... More >>

Orlando, Reissued: Who's on First?

Tilda Swinton's gender-lending turn

Climate of Film

Tribeca Film's two-week L.A. stand continues with a romcom and eco consciousness

Movie Reviews: Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Toy Story 3, I Am Love

Also, Cyrus, The Mormon Proposition, The Lottery

The Star of Luca Guadagnino's film I Am Love? A Russian Fish Soup Called Ukha

Ukha: From Russia With Love​ In I Am Love, Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino's operatic family melodrama, a popular Russian fish soup called ukha (pronounced ooh-kah) is more than set dressing on the wealthy Recchi family dinner table, it's a plot point that means something completely differen ... More >>

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Actress/producer Tilda Swinton on her postmodern romantic epic, I Am Love

Movie Reviews: Dirty Hands, Furry Vengeance, Harry Brown

Also, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Timer, The Good Heart

2009 Film Poll: A Whole World of Hurt

Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq drama tops our annual critics' survey

Couples Chaos: German Director Maren Ade Talks About Everyone Else

Birth of a Zombie Nation: The Undead in the Movies

From Bela Lugosi's zombie love slave to George Romero's Living Undead through the soulless corporate workers of more recent films

Movie Reviews: Big Man Japan, Management, Not Forgetten

Also, Brothers at War, The New Twenty, The Skeptic, The Brothers Bloom and Next Day Air

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

The Limits of Control: The Man, the Myth

Wandering Spain with Jim Jarmusch's lone wolf

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Sprechen Sie Berlinale? Looking for "Slow Cinema" Among the Polyglot Unhappy Meals at the Berlin International Film Festival

German director Maren Ade's Everyone Else is competition's most impressive film

Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wor ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Run Naomi Run

For the next 10 days, I'll be posting regularly from the Berlin International Film Festival (a.k.a. the Berlinale), generally considered to be the second largest festival in Europe (after Cannes) and, at 59, one of the oldest. This year, the Berlinale's international competition will feature the wo ... More >>

Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Burn After Reading: Intolerable Cruelty

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

British Invasion: A LACMA Retrospective

One more step toward recolonization?

Outsider Cinema: Bela Tarr Series at LACMA

A look at the Hungarian director's epic misfits

Miss Julie

The long and short of a Hollywood icon’s movie career

The Year’s Best Characters

Support group

Golden Compass Veers Off Course

Film adaptation of Pullman novel gets lost in byzantine plotting

The Revolution Will Not Be Merchandised

Readers comment on Murakami, Tilda Swinton and more

The Ice Queen Melteth

From art-house icon to Hollywood headliner, Tilda Swinton isn’t afraid to let them see her sweat

Movie Reviews: Kurt Cobain: About a Son, Michael Clayton

Also Beyond Hatred, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and more

Stephanie Daley: Bringing Up Baby

Coming to terms in Stephanie Daley

Let the Sunshine In

Last Thursday morning in Paris, the lineup was announced for the 60th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The announcement was made by Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux during a press conference held in a gilded and mirrored salon of the Hotel de Crillon, located on the Place de la Co ... More >>

Lions and Witches and Wardrobes — Oh My!

The fusty, frostbitten pleasures of The Chronicles of Narnia

The Thrill Is Gone

Jim Jarmusch and Wong Kar-wai look for love in all the wrong places

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

The Tarantino Factor (According to Chan-Wook Park)

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Keanu Reeves in Constantine

Rutting and Nothingness

Laugh Factory

Edited by Kateri Butler

Fighting Words

Independent voices at the L.A. Times and real independent filmmaking

Mommy Dearest

Oedipal dreams in The Deep End and The Others