AltWeeklies Wire
Bloodless 'Blood'new
Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is striking but dry as dust.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-28-2007 |
Reviews
Serious Song and Dance Mannew
Director John Turturro mingles drama and musical comedy in Romance & Cigarettes.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wild 'Youth'new
Coppola's Romanian rhapsody is wacky but somehow absorbing.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Mr. Smith Goes to Zombietownnew
An old story gets a fresh prince in the latest adaptation of I Am Legend.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
Guy Ritchie Steps Backwardnew
Revolver turns out to be a touchy-feely ultraviolent gangster flick. Come over here and give Scarface a hug, you big gruff pussycat.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guy Ritchie, revolver
Reviving the Revival Housenew
With the continually improving the home viewing experience, it might seem like sheer folly to be opening up a revival theater in Los Angeles (or anywhere). But to Hadrian Belove – manager of the Silent Movie Theatre, recently reconceived as Cinefamily – it’s a challenge.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-30-2007 |
Movies
John Sayles Mines the Rural Blues for 'Honeydripper'new
Back before Sex, Lies, and Videotape … before Reservoir Dogs … before there was much of anything that could be called an American independent film movement, John Sayles was the quintessential indie filmmaker.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
The Face It Is A-Changin'new
It takes six actors to portray Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Margot is Wretched, but 'Margot' is Involvingnew
I'm not a big fan of films that force us to spend an hour and a half with awful and/or hopelessly fucked-up people, but Margot at the Wedding is written with enough wit and performed with enough skill that I found it impossible to turn away from the Zellers and their collective emotional train wreck.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Judith Freeman Channels Chandlernew
Freeman's nonbiography uses real estate as a Ouija board.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-19-2007 |
Fiction
Angeleno Apocalyptonew
Two new films -- the sprawling Southland Tales and the focused Smiley Face -- roam our home turf.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tonal Gravitynew
Coen Brothers return to darkness with No Country for Old Men while Lions for Lambs offers an anything-but-subtle attack.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-09-2007 |
Reviews
AFI Returns with Ample Pickingsnew
AFI Fest -- one of L.A.'s two major, all-purpose festivals -- has taken a lot of knocks since day one.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-02-2007 |
Movies
Narrative Gets Lynched in 'Slipstream'new
Perhaps one could find a prose equivalent in Joyce or Beckett, but basically this is "all cinema, all the time."
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Anthony Hopkins, Slipstream
'Gone Baby Gone': Inappropriate Afflecknew
Ben unwisely puts Casey at the bat in his promising directorial debut.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-19-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
