Michael Nordine

Boogie Nights — which, for anyone keeping score at home, remains Paul Thomas Anderson’s best film — plays at LACMA at 7:30. Mark Wahlberg went a long way toward being taken seriously as an actor by playing porn sensation Dirk Diggler in this landmark of the late 1990s, which also......

Boogie Nights — which, for anyone keeping score at home, remains Paul Thomas Anderson’s best film — plays at LACMA at 7:30. Mark Wahlberg went a long way toward being taken seriously as an actor by playing porn sensation Dirk Diggler in this landmark of the late 1990s, which also......

The Aero continues its 75th-anniversary festivities starting at 7:30 with The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story, two Preston Sturges comedies from the early 1940s. A key influence on the Coen brothers (who even named O Brother, Where Art Thou? after one of his films-within-a-film), Sturges was one of......

USC presents An Evening With William Friedkin and Sorcerer, his recently re-evaluated masterwork from 1977. The ambitious story of a ragtag group led by Roy Scheider (Jaws, All That Jazz) transporting big rigs full of volatile nitroglycerin across South America was an expensive flop at the time of its release,......

LACMA’s Tuesday Matinee is Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Marilyn Monroe as a singer in one of her best, most iconic performances. Howard Hawks directed almost too many classics to count — Bringing Up Baby and Scarface immediately come to mind, and give an idea of his extensive range — but......

Thirty-seven years after Kathryn Bigelow and Michael Oblowitz first put together their Cine Virus program, REDCAT is presenting a reworking of the show, titled Cinema Is a Virus From Out of Space. Several short and/or experimental works are on the docket, including Bigelow’s own The Set-Up, which she made as......

Anyone who’s read Watership Down knows that Richard Adams didn’t exactly write children’s books, talking animals notwithstanding. That’s just as evident in his not-quite-as-famous The Plague Dogs, which was made into a disturbing animated movie in 1982. Cinefamily is screening a rare 35mm print once a night for the next......

Charlie Chaplin goes north and falls in love in The Gold Rush, which premiered at the Egyptian Theatre 90 years ago and screens there today at 3:30 p.m. One of the writer-director-producer-star’s most fully realized works, it finds the Little Tramp braving the elements of Alaska in order to strike......