There is a moment at the end of Robert Bresson's penultimate film, The Devil, Probably (1977), when Charles (Antoine Monnier), a young man who has decided on sui
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LACMA's animation screenings have been unusually strong this year, including a sold-out UPA show in March and an upcoming Paramount show on Thursday. But the rar
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“You fall in love with someone, and there's this moment where you just want to consume each other and not be individuals anymore. We had that so strongly t
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Casa de Mi Padre, starring Will Ferrell (speaking Spanish!), opens in theaters nationwide this weekend. Karina Longworth chatted with Ferrell, director Matt Piedmont
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To say that only Harvey Weinstein could land a Best Picture Oscar for a silent film, as he is expected to do Sunday for The Artist, is more than just a reflection of
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At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, director Lars Von Trier made some deliberately incendiary statements at a press conference promoting his latest film, Melancholia.
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Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror filmmaking. His lit
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Mexico's submission for the Foreign-Language Film Oscar race, Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala literally spells out the destiny of its would-be beauty-queen heroi
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Click here for “Godard's '60s Revisited: The Rebirth of Cool,” by Karina Longworth.
Jean-Luc Godard changed the course of film history with his d
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In a testy exchange with The King's Speech screenwriter David Seidler earlier this year on Slate, Christopher Hitchens wrote, “All other considerations to
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Following two wildly enjoyable stints guest-programming some of his favorite movies, director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) returns t
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Watching the succession of talking-head testimonials by former disciples of Chogyam Trungpa that comprise Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinp
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