Michael Nordine

Los Angeles is one of cinema's most enduring geographical muses. Just ask the L.A. Film Festival, which has introduced a new sidebar consisting of 11 movies "set, shot or inspired by" the epicenter of the film industry. Called L.A. Muse, the program recognizes that there's something intrinsically cinematic about the......

The Westside's dominance over Los Angeles film culture continues unabated with the news that ArcLight is seeking to open not one but two new theaters in Santa Monica. Its current L.A. locations - in West Hollywood, Pasadena, Sherman Oaks, and El Segundo - are distributed fairly evenly, but anyone not within these......

On Aug. 29, 1970, 42-year-old Los Angeles Times reporter Ruben Salazar was struck in the head with a tear gas canister and killed instantly. He'd stepped into the Silver Dollar Cafe to escape the chaos and confusion of the Chicano Moratorium march, an anti-Vietnam protest that had turned violent. The......

"Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water." - Chinatown Countless documentaries are released into theaters every year, the majority of which are info dumps that take the talking-head structure as a given. There's rarely much thought given to form, which is sometimes fine - not every......

On the occasion of the Aero's weekend-long tribute to Nicolas Cage, L.A. Weekly spoke to the actor about his unique stye (dubbed "Nouveau Shamanic" by Cage himself), the first time he met Werner Herzog, and the directors he'd still like to work with. Below is the full conversation. You can also see......

During an Ask Me Anything session held on Reddit last year, Ethan Hawke praised a fellow thespian by calling him "the only actor since Marlon Brando that's actually done anything new with the art of acting," adding that the performer in question has "successfully taken us away from an obsession......

Described by critic-turned-filmmaker Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver) as "not defined, as are the western and gangster genres, by conventions of setting and conflict, but rather by the more subtle qualities of tone and mood," film noir continues to draw people to the movies more than a half-century after its heyday......

There was little comforting cinephiles the day of Philip Seymour Hoffman's untimely passing last month, though a notable exception comes to mind. Shortly after the news broke, a chorus of commenters chimed in on Lebowski Fest's Facebook page with quotations from the movie that, though still hilarious, had suddenly become resonant in entirely......

Anyone weary of Paranormal Activity's take on the found-footage genre need look no further than the Egyptian's Spielberg Theatre for a healthy dose of the real thing. Hosted by L.A. Filmforum and having its world premiere this Sunday night at 7:30 p.m., the latest edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation......

"I would give up all my films to have directed Children of Paradise," François Truffaut famously said of Marcel Carné's 1945 masterwork - high praise, considering Truffaut debuted with The 400 Blows. The epic romance - long considered France's answer to Gone With the Wind, and perhaps the country's greatest......