If you’re like me, the peculiar selectivity of the ’80s revival has been a source of considerable perplexity and annoyance. Overlooking complex cultural touchsto
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Lending a winning imprimatur to Asia Argento’s bloated adaptation of JT LeRoy’s novel The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, French director Gaspar Noé — a
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Dear Mr. Gold:
My friend is giving a Hinamatsuri, Japanese Doll Day, party for her little daughter on March 3. I’d like to bring hishi-mochi for dessert. I wonder
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In the late ’70s, everybody went to the roller rink. It was, especially for prepubescent girls like me, unimaginably crazysexycool: the music, the mirror balls, th
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Films about isolation and loneliness tend to slide toward violence — think Taxi Driver and Repulsion — compelled in that direction as much by the cinema’s revu
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You can’t exactly ignore the central device of the CBS sitcom
How I Met Your Mother: It kicks off each show. We see a couple of bored-looking
kids from the yea
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With all the hoopla surrounding the opening of the bipartisan
Hammer & MOCA museums show “Masters of American Comics,” you’d think comics
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Photo by Anne FishbeinI have tasted suckling pig whose skin was so crisp that it shattered in the mouth like spun sugar, and suckling pig so tender that the waiter o
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Photo by Kevin Scanlon
For seven days in late September, a film about which practically no information
was available surfaced in five area theaters. Titled Da
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Alcazar. This could be coastal Lebanon, really it could, a shaded terrace
of music, grilled mullet and waiters who transfer bright coals to brass hookahs.
Enormous k
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On the occasion of the UCLA Film and Television Archive’s Don Siegel
retrospective, L.A. Weekly asked several of Siegel’s former friends
and collaborator
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Photos by Anne Fishbein
China, of course, enjoys the greatest food in the world, a cuisine capable of such subtlety and regional variety that French or Italian me
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