Art imitates life imitating art based on life in Wash Westmoreland's bustling Colette, a Belle ??poque dish of scandal, style and eventual liberation. Its subject,
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Sunday, Sept. 23Sept. 23 is National Art House Theater Day, a custom dating back to 2016. This year, the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre celebrates with
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There's an old habit among actors reading a new script: Search for your character's name and peruse only that part. But if?ever?there were a vivid example of why a p
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Let's give 2018 this much: It's the year that we finally got to see Cate Blanchett head-butt a pumpkin. To be more specific, it's a bloated jack-o'-lantern, one proj
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If it seems the Los Angeles Film Festival is arriving late this year, that's because it's been moved from its early-summer spot to the current festival season ? Sep
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Michael Moore has titled Fahrenheit 11/9 like a sequel to his 2004 megahit Fahrenheit 9/11, and he opens it the same way. Was it all a dream?? he again asks, in his
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The Predator, as The Predator keeps reminding us, isn't really a predator at all. This agile intergalactic menace, with supernatural camouflage abilities and a prop
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With his fevered, stylish Assassination Nation, writer-director Sam Levinson (Another Happy Day) has attempted a revenge-thriller manifesto, a sort of splatter-gore
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The chief achievement of Blaze,Ethan Hawke's impassioned and uncompromising study of musicians on the margins, is that the film's subjects, were they alive, wouldn'
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To his credit, director-producer James D. Stern acknowledges, just 20 minutes in, a fatal flaw in the premise of American Chaos, his documentary wallow in the elect
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It's heartening to see someone living their dream. With his second feature, Panos Cosmatos, the VHS-mad director of the hypnotic horror lulu Beyond the Black Rainbo
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Friday, Sept. 14If Michelangelo Antonioni set the world of cinema aflame by foregrounding the psychology of the soulless bourgeois, then L'Avventura was the lit
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