Wow, it looks like Adam Nagourney needs to pick up an LA Weekly. His fascinating front of the home page story in the New York Times today about the Los Angeles Film
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Every four years, the American people act en masse to send a message to the nation's power brokers, and every four years this vote is interpreted as a sign of th
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Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers' True Grit is well-wrought, if overly talkative, and serio
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman, who a
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When legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis died yesterday at the age of 91, he left behind a filmography spanning six decades, several continents, and pretty mu
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Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg's Marwencol is something like a homegro
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A five-hour ordeal of spaghetti camp and flying fake blood, this program of vintage gialli from the “years of lead” era is surely the exhausting Thursday
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GO GERRYMANDERING Jeff Reichert's Gerrymandering complements Inside Job, the recent indictment of the U.S. financial system, in two key ways: In giving a close a
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For many years, the history of the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax was relatively non-tumultuous. Opened in 1942 by John Hampton — who hoped to use his persona
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Alain Resnais' Wild Grass has plenty of fans — it copped an award at Cannes in 2009 — but I don't see what they see. The 87-year-old filmmaker's late
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Trash Humpers is not really a movie. Or so its credited writer/director, sometime indie-film enfant terrible Harmony Korine (writer of Kids, director of Gummo, julie
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Have you ever wondered what Mos Eisley Cantina might be like if it were Lebowski-fied? We haven't, but YouTube user mrdreamisasleep did.
“Star Wars Meets
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