Werner Herzog

An Artist Who's Obsessed With Dogs That Hang Out Around Art

The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) in Culver City has a permanent exhibit devoted to the Sputnik space dogs, dogs found on Moscow streets, trained, dressed in dog-sized space suits then sent into orbit by the Soviet space program late in the 1950s and early in the 1960s. The exhibit features cl ... More >>

2012: A Landmark Year in L.A. Hip-Hop

L.A. hip-hop hasn't seen a year like this one since 1992, when the word G-Funk was (re)defined and art-rap was steadily making noise in and around Leimert Park. Twenty years ago saw, of course, the release of The Chronic, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, The Predator, Spice 1, and Way 2 Fonky, among ot ... More >>

How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival

The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Killing -- made with Danish support and directed by American Joshua Oppenheimer, executive produced by ... More >>

Michael Heizer's Double Negative: A Journey to a Land Art Landmark

How I learned to stop worrying and love man-made gashes in the earth

Dom Perignon's David Lynch Party: Champagne, 1,000 Friends, Werner Herzog Mysterious Vapors

Dom Perignon's Chef de Cave Richard Geoffroy returned to Los Angeles from Champagne on Wednesday night. He threw a party for about a thousand friends to celebrate the release of a special edition of Dom designed by David Lynch, who was not only the evening's special guest but was the chief architect ... More >>

Os Gêmeos, Brazilian Street Artist Twins, Discuss Their Awesome 'Miss You' Show at Prism Gallery

It's a bright crisp day on the Sunset strip and LA Weekly's at Prism Gallery waiting for our turn to meet Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, Brazilian brothers who are known in the contemporary art and graffiti worlds simply as "the twins," or "Os Gêmeos" in Portuguese. The brothers are here in L.A. fo ... More >>

Andrew Breitbart Was L.A.'s Implausible Native Son

How L.A.'s liberal Westside produced a fierce conservative provocateur

Ecco Announces First 3 Bourdain Titles: Roy Choi and Some Other People

​Last September Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Anthony Bourdain (chef, crime novelist, No Reservations guy, friend-of-Chang, occasional writer of Treme episodes, etc.) would have his own line of books, one that would publish a small handful of titles every year. W ... More >>

50 Reasons Los Angeles Is the Best Effing City in America

Timothy Norris​John Lennon once said of Los Angeles, "That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco." Pretty rough stuff from a supposedly nice guy. Clearly, the Eggman (or was he the Walrus?) missed the endless taco stands, the pupusas, the pho, the don ... More >>

CalTech Shoots to Top of 'World University' Rankings; UC Campuses Struggle to Hold on

Was Obama's shout-out to the California Institute of Technology in January the last push it needed to trample Harvard and Stanford for the No. 1 spot in (arguably) the world's most prestigious college rankings? The Times of Higher Education, a British operation, gave the Pasadena underdog top honor ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Gets His Own Line of Books at Ecco

​ Anthony Bourdain can now add yet another title to the long list of those he has already: chef, crime novelist, non-fiction author, television host, HBO writer, and eater of odd foods. No, not political candidate, but publisher. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, today announced th ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

Natural History: Anthony Lepore and Mark Hagen

Anthony Lepore and Mark Hagen: Do You Have a Fondness for Drab National Park Visitor Centers? We Have the Exhibit for You

Courtesy of Francois Ghebaly Gallery Lepore's exhibit is intended to mimic one of those crusty old national park visitors centers you got dragged to on family vacations​ Today Andrew Berardini returns to our print edition with a story that ties together two seemingly different shows -- Anthony ... More >>

Soft-core, Pee-Wee, Cave in 2-D: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

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 >>

Meek's Cutoff Review

LACMA Salutes 50 Years of Cannes Discoveries

Screening series draws on La semaine de la critique

Swans: Forever Changes

Prodigal son Michael Gira returns to L.A. with more Swans music

Speak Softly, Drive a German Tank: Lemmy Kilmister at His Documentary Film Opening

AFI Fest 2010: Something New, Something Old

And still free

How To See Movies For Free: A Guide to AFI Fest Ticketing

Evil Ballerina Natalie Portman wants you to Rush for AFI Tickets​ This week's big local film story is the launch of AFI Fest 2010, which begins tonight with a gala screening of the naked Anne Hathaway movie Love and Other Drugs, and will screen over 60 features over the next seven days, inclu ... More >>

Sleepless in Toronto

Self-curation as self-protection at TIFF

Autolux: A Lot of Hours of Insanity and Escape

Critical Mass

LACMA's three-weekend series spotlights the disparate passions of late, great film critic Manny Farber

Cooking With Christopher Walken: 'Man Makes Chicken With Pears'

If you liked Cooking With Werner, you'll love this one, in which Christopher Walken cooks chicken with pears. Unlike the Werner Herzog skit, this video actually features Walken himself. No dancing, no sudden violence: just a man thoughtfully preparing chicken and roasted pears. Of course YouTube is ... More >>

Richard Thompson: the Fairport Convention Founder Who Defined the British Folk-Rock Movement of the 1960s

A New Box Set Captures a Master at Work.

Steppe Up: Sergei Dvortsevoy Has His Way With Camels and Shepherds Alike in Tulpan

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

Movie Reviews: Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, Must Read After My Death, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Also, Dog Eat Dog, Echelon Conspiracy and more

Tropic Thunder: Jungle Feverish

If only Ben Stiller and company were as hot and naughty as the P.C. protesters complain

Cannes 2008: A Brief History of the Directors' Fortnight

Inside the other Cannes

Kids Today: A Harmony Korine Retrospective

Cinefamily charts the evolution of writer/director "enfant terrible"

Movie Reviews: Doomsday, Drillbit Taylor, Under the Same Moon

Also Shutter and Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns

Movie Reviews: Beaufort, Horton Hears a Who!, The Unforeseen

Also Doomsday and All In This Tea

The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels meets his fans

Watching the Apocalypse

Cinefile

Apocalypto: The Passion of Mel

Gibson’s powerful, personal Mayan epic

Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection

Missing the Ex-Factor

AFI remembers the past, neglects the present

Taking Measure

REDCAT redefines independent, 21 Grams weighs (down) the soul

Words, Music, and More Words

John Wesley Harding, handsome singer-songwriter and now, annoyingly, big-time novelist

The Juggernaught: Clinton versus Carlson

Tucker's Gonna Have to Eat His Shoe

Secrets of the Sun

The Mars Volta in space and time

Love Will Tear Us Apart

Ian Curtis, 1956 - 1980: No Rest, No Peace By Tony Wilson from his memoir 24 Hour Party People

Depth Charges

Goethe Blockbusters dive beneath the surface

Redux Deluxe

The Apocalypse Now DVD that might have been

Cleveland Nasty

The Big Nowhere

Out on the Nellis Range with the Center for Land Use Interpretation

Summertime

A calendar of festivals under the sun and stars