Karina Longworth

Steve Coogan sells himself with disclaimers. He's calling from New York to talk about his new film, The Trip, which began life as a six-episode, highly improvised BBC series. "On paper," he admits, "it's a very difficult thing to get excited about." Directed by Michael Winterbottom, The Trip tracks Coogan......

Thurs., June 9 Before you see Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom's The Trip, opening this week, why not revisit Roger Corman's decidedly, er, trippier film of the same name? Two years before Easy Rider (the other half of tonight's double bill at the Aero, starting at 7:30), Jack Nicholson scripted......

After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premier showcase of top-shelf auteur cinema would go on without me for another few days, with many highly anticipated Competition titles yet......

If an auteur's body of work is defined by the outliers — the films that seem to bend the strictures of a director's identifiable style while still unmistakably bearing his signature — then the must-see of LACMA's upcoming Tim Burton film series, pegged to the museum's massive exhibit of the filmmaker's nonmoving......

"OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox......

After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premiere showcase of top-shelf auteur cinema would go on without me for another few days, with many highly anticipated Competition titles yet......

CANNES, FRANCE -- Thanks to the idiosyncrasies of Air France's pricing schedule, I am departing Cannes on Thursday morning, before the premieres of some of the festival's most anticipated titles -- including the Ryan Gosling-starring Drive; This Must Be the Place, featuring Sean Penn in rock star drag; and new......

A nebbishy screenwriter who longs to publish a novel, Gil (Owen Wilson) is tentatively working on a book set in a nostalgia shop — much to the open frustration of Inez (Rachel McAdams), his all-too-modern, rich-girl fiancée. She has a tendency to talk about Gil in catty, judgy tones as......

CANNES, FRANCE -- I saw Tree of Life on Monday morning when everyone else saw Tree of Life, but instead of writing about it right away, I went straight into a screening of Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan. By the time I emerged two hours later, many of my colleagues had......

Cannes, France -- My week in Cannes is just about half over, and while I haven't yet seen a film that I would champion without reservation, there have been a few near misses. Gerardo Naranjo is a hell of a director, but I'm not quite as high as Hoberman on......