Movie director Mike Figgis and the U.S. premiere of The Co(te)lette Film were the headline event for Dance Camera West, L.A.'s annual dance media film festival
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In the 25 years since her first feature, Magdalena Viraga, Nina Menkes has remained one of the few American directors working at feature length whose films — in bo
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Imagine if David Fincher had played Joey on Friends. Or if Michel Gondry had replaced Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men. It's one thing for a music-video direc
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Plenty of major documentary makers have dedicated themselves to being portraitists of their homeland, but no one has done it as relentlessly and righteously as Patri
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Rock Hudson. Saddam Hussein. Lee Harvey Oswald. Doris Day. Enos the Chimp. And everyone above level seven at the CIA.
So goes the cast” list, in order of billing,
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Two years ago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan proposed suspending the then-41-year-old weekend film program because it was losing money for
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Yeah, yeah, we know. There's really no better place in the world to study filmmaking than the glamorous studio sprawl of Los Angeles — or, as that golden-o
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The opening title card of François Ozon's 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that period — a sneaky-smart way of
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Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist's first feature to be shot in the West is a flawless riff on our indigenous art cine
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GO WE ARE WHAT WE ARE The tale of a disoriented cannibal family trying to survive in the lower depths of Mexico City, Jorge Michel Grau's We Are What We Are is
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The porn industry's main STD testing clinic was shut down Dec. 9 by state and county authorities because it didn't have a California medical clinic license.
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So, bear with us here. This week the news hit that a music video from Miley Cyrus would be turned into a full-blown feature film. Wait! Do leave us yet! You still re
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