Woody Allen

Hollywood's Famous Source Family Cult Returns, in a New Documentary

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Brian Regan

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in L.A. *12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 5. TopTune A comedy songwriting competition hosted by Jonathan Menchin and Tom Tully. With songwriters Dan Bern, Annie Boxell, Robert Morgan Fisher, Logan Heftel, Phil Ward and Chelsea Williams. Commentators: Ju ... More >>

Britt and Amanda Brown Do it For Love, and a Little Money

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you lacked directions to Britt and Amanda Brown's house in the Highland Park hills, you probably could guess the address. Look for the tea green and p ... More >>

Worst Foot Forward: When Comedy Goes Wrong

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Tuesday, September 4 Krzysztof Urbanski conducts "Three Russian Masters" HOLLYWOOD BOWL The classical canon today is both questioned for its relevance and pounced upon eagerly by a new generation of composers, performers and conductors of prodigious technical and scholarly gifts. The young firebran ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival: The Korean Woody Allen, and an Iranian Game-Changer

After operating at maybe 75 percent of its potential for almost its first full week, on Sunday the Cannes Film Festival kicked into full auteurist gear, with the premieres of three formally audacious new works from three contemporary international art film stars: Michael Haneke's Amour (which we alr ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/916 - 4/20

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "This meal need not stray too far from your preferences. Not when there are such wide-ranging options like vegan ice cream, pizza, and com ga hai nam available." 10 Best Vegan-Friendly Restaurants in L.A.: Happy Earth Day. "C ... More >>

Music Picks: Hugh Cornwell, Carlos Guitarlos, Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion

Also, Charlene Soraia, Chuck Loeb, the Head Cat, Feed Me and others

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Alex Cox, curator

Charlotte Rampling: The Look Review

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review: Michael Bay Destroys Chicago, Abe Lincoln and Our Brain Cells

Hero and his new hottie​ The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow moti ... More >>

Five Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Super 8 and Steve Coogan

Super 8​ This week in our print edition, LA Weekly critics review five movies coming out this weekend. Also check out Sam Wasson's confrontation of Terrence Malick, as he writes, "Perhaps it's time to reach for the light, prop up against the headboard and give this relationship some fresh cons ... More >>

FBI Makes Fun of L.A. Bank Robber's Enormous Ears

KABCThere's no disguising those babies​Reveling in the only lighthearted part of working for the FBI -- the official naming of the crooks -- investigators have christened a prolific bank robber currently on the loose in Los Angeles the "All Ears Bandit." Which is kind of mean, actually. With ... More >>

'TOONS FOR TWO

Top 5 Old School Indie L.A. Health Food Stores

J. Ritz​ Close your eyes and breathe. Deeply. Smell those bulk whole grains commingling with the aromas of spirulina, alternative pastas, sprouts of all types, and freshly juiced wheatgrass? Now take a look around. See the earnest hand-painted signs promoting health tips? Notice the knotty pin ... More >>

AH, THE GLORY DAYS OF PREPPY ANGST

Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World

Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint

Merrill Davis: Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl!

Break-In Burglar Takes $2,000 In Coins From Manhattan Beach Wells Fargo

Way more than $2,000 in coins... but not everyone can have hustle like Scrooge​It's the season for artistic public thieving in L.A. County. First, on Oct. 27, there was the guy with the Obama mask who stuck up an El Pollo Loco branch in Duarte with a toy knife. A week or so later, there was t ... More >>

Hermosa Beach Bank Robber Channels Woody Allen, Hands Teller Note Reading 'I Have A Gun; Give Me The Money'

Fast CompanyDid he mean a post-it gun?​We know the texting generation is more comfortable using their letters -- and now, with new e-mail capabilities, Facebook can finally erase any lingering need for verbal communication -- but we had hoped at least bank robbers might keep it loud and old-sc ... More >>

Please Give: Liberal Guilt's Got Soul

Rich-people problems — but compelling ones — in Nicole Holofcener's new feature

John Mayernaise and Celine Dijon: Creating Food for Grammys No Easy Task

N. GalutenEdibles in the Grammy luxury suites​As Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall once said, upon arriving in Los Angeles, "What's with all these awards? They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler." This city does love to give out awards, and when we do, there a ... More >>

3 Backyards: Secrets and Insides

Director Eric Mendelsohn on the suburbs, working for Woody Allen and his new film

The Jewing of Westwood

Cooking Lobsters With Water Grill's David LeFevre How To Boil One Alive, Properly

Lobsters come with their own iconography. Think Woody Allen chasing one around a kitchen in Annie Hall. Or, more recently, a squeamish Amy Adams in Julie & Julia. Sure, you boil them alive, but that's the way it's done, and they don't have any feelings anyway. Didn't Cobain write a song about that? ... More >>

Tarantino Picks His 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

(Some serious gourmet shit)

Video: Quentin Tarantino's 20 Favorite Flicks of the Past 17 Years

Battle RoyaleWhen Ella Taylor asked me to rename my top five films of all time, I tattled off the obvious titles. She then asked, "Any since the last 17 years?""In my top five?" I asked incredulously. "Well, okay, top 10," she relented."Well, let me think about that."And upon later reflection, I rea ... More >>

Cold Souls: Paul Giamatti’s Unbearable Weightness of Being

Actor brings the funny, but his new film lacks something deeper

American Apparel: Made in East L.A.?

L.A. Garment and Citizen's Dot Dot Dish column (spotted by the Eastsider L.A.) recently reported on rumors that American Apparel may move its operations from the gritty industrialscape just east of downtown and into the old Sears store on Olympic and Soto. The Sears locale makes sense, given AA's r ... More >>

The Year in Reading Food

Bittersweet on the page

The Fly Stinks Up the Chandler; Woody Allen and William Friedkin's Puccini Fares Better

David Cronenberg and Howard Shore's insect opera repels

The D.C. Sniper's Wife: Barbara Kopple Finds Her Inner Cable-News Muse

Shut up and direct

ˇAsk a Mexican! the Dating Gain

Dear Mexican: Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I’m dating a Mexican guy?

2 Days in Paris: After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next

Small Things Considered

Avenue Montaigne's French Kiss

Daničle Thompson sends a warm valentine to the city of lights

Lucas at 20

He's 20 years-old, has started 22 scripts and appeared in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, but what he really wants to do is direct.

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

R. Crumb in Heaven

On Earth and otherwise

Also Opening This Week

Get Me to the Church on Time and a Half for Overtime

The state of marriage, gay and straight, in a heterosexual dictatorship

Take the Money and Run

The rise of unremarkable Cruz and his sidekick Richie

Coming to Terms

An Upper West Side story, a mother's tale

Earthly Delights

Song and dance from around the world

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce

The Total Filmmaker

Steve Martin's beautiful losers

Zen and the Art of Nudity

Stripping away the layers at Harbin Hot Springs

Rostock or Bust

Achtung!

Ella Taylor's Blessings