Heritage Square and Yale Cabaret Hollywood present a live, unusual reading of an interactive television script. The reading is set for Sunday, February 21, 4 p.m. at
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The rain that sheets down in nearly every scene of Robert Hamer's 1947 It Always Rains on Sunday is as much a psychological phenomenon as a meteorological one �
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In her broad outlines, the character of Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother to a 4-y
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I wondered if I was sounding too sour a note when I suggested, in a September 2 editorial, that Los Angeles moviegoers shouldn't be entirely exempted form blame
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Bernd Eichinger, who wrote and produced Downfall, is the force behind the film version of another German trauma,The Baader Meinhof Complex. Founded by self-described
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I’m not sure if John Carpenter ever actually said the oft-attributed words: In France, I’m an auteur; in Germany, I’m a filmmaker; in England, I’m a genre di
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Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.
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Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole, Denny’s at Gower Gulch, in
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Christoph Waltz remembers exactly where he was when he learned he had won the role of the grandiloquent, polyglot SS Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino’s Ingl
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Michael Govan and Ian Birnie sat on the patio at the L.A. County Museum of Art today and explained the dismantling of their film department. Which is to say, Govan p
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Just what is it that the French see in Jerry Lewis?” That has long been the watch cry of a supposedly intellectual American class. The answer: The French were simp
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Not very boldly going where many a Hollywood franchise has gone before, Alias and Lost creator J.J. Abrams’ already overpraised Star Trek reboot” makes over Gene
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