Venice Film Festival

Venice Update: Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, James Franco's Child of God, and More

Kubrick and Co.: A LACMA Series Pairs the Filmmaker's Works With Others Like Them

New York City Does Noir Too!? LACMA Brings You the Best of It

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage This month, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's film series "The Naked City: New York Noir and Neorealism" is highlighting the infusion of street photog ... More >>

AFI Fest 2012: Who Will Win the Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film?

The Master Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Reteams With Philip Seymour Hoffman

Joaquin Phoenix Returns in Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired The Master

There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film's official bow at the Venice Film ... More >>

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson on his new 70 mm film

Los Angeles Watches Itself: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week:

Attenberg Review

Whit Stillman Interview

Damsels in Distress, and a director in distress

Close Up on Venice

The AFI Films You Need to See

Our critics' recommendations for the best of the fest

AFI Film Festival 2011:ALPS and Attenberg

Toronto Film Festival: Todd Solondz's Dark Horse and What it Says About Contemporary Jewish Angst

Selma Blair and Jordan Gelber in Dark Horse​ "We're Jews, and Jews we shall always be." So a main character warns of the us-vs-them difference that would define the first half of the 20th century, in A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg's period piece triangulating the Oedipal relationship b ... More >>

One-Hit Wanda

UCLA restores Barbara Loden's sole directorial effort

Alex Cox Back in Possession of Repo

Repo Chick breaks out alongside polished-up Straight to Hell

Sofia Coppola: Lost at the Chateau Marmont

From party girl to Oscar winner, a journey to the stripped-down Somewhere

Colin Firth: a Single Character

By George, British actor almost didn't get the role of a lifetime

35 Shots of Rum: Silent Treatment

Family drama, without all the screaming, in Claire Denis' latest

Dudamel; Modine: Saving Classical — and the Alpacas?

Down the Dante Hole

​A funny thing happened on my way to this year's Toronto International Film Festival: I detoured through Venice, where the world's oldest film festival, the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, had invited me to serve on the jury for its inaugural Persol 3D award. The competiti ... More >>

Gomorrah's Matteo Garrone on the Making of his Modern Mafia Epic

From Naples with bullets

The 10 (or 17) Best Films of 2008

Coming soon to a theater, er, HDTV near you

Movie Reviews: An American Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Flash of Genius

Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more

Mickey Rourke Returns as The Wrestler

Year of the ram

The Wrestler wins Venice. Next stop: Toronto

Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler won't screen publicly here in Toronto until Sunday evening, and won't be shown to the press until Monday afternoon. (In its latest concession to Hollywood, the festival has this year decided to hold press screenings for many high-profile movies only after those films' ... More >>

Soul and the City: Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles

A "lost" classic makes its long overdue theatrical debut

Still Lives

New Chinese Cinema at UCLA and REDCAT

Anatomy of a Murder

The famous outlaw, the fawning outcast and an epic movie that’s as stylized as it is insane

Lust, Yawn, Caution

There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

Also reviews of Bamako, The Devil Came on Horseback, Golden Door and more

Lumière’s Descendent: Thierry Frémaux

Cannes’ artistic director

Les Amants Réguliers (Regular Lovers)

Missing the Ex-Factor

AFI remembers the past, neglects the present

Wanda

The Intruder

Murrow Man

Clooney Vision

Good Night, and Good Luck, a searing requiem for the Fourth Estate, raises questions about truth and paranoia today

The Full Wilkinson

With three new films about to hit theaters, the British character actor finds himself ever more at home in America

The Sound of One Hand Hacking

Zatoichi is violent, funny — and kind of Zen

Directing Between the Lines

Andrey Zvyagintsev deepens the text

Prodigal Dad

Filial ecstasy and agony in The Return

Tales from the Vienna ’hood

Dog Days and the New Austrian Cinema

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

Fighting Words

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

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Todd Haynes' postmodern tearjerker

Good Work

The director of Time Out, Laurent Cantet

Cine: Introduction