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Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Labsnew
I'm headed up to the peaceful resort that houses Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and plays host every January to eight Fellows, handpicked from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants, for the coveted five-day Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-09-2008 |
Movies
The Year's Best Charactersnew
The best supporting actors have said there's little more satisfying than working in concert with a well-oiled ensemble. And little more fun to watch, which is why a package deal and a duet top my list of the best supporting actors of 2007.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
01-04-2008 |
Movies
Little Children in the Moviesnew
My 9-year-old daughter's interest in boys is largely confined to whether she can outrun them, and yet she has acquired a precise, if mercifully abstract, grasp of the contemporary arts of seduction.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Movies
'Black Book,' 'Grindhouse' and the Relativist Holenew
When pop aestheticism reaches all the way from effusing over the ritualized violence and reverse feminism of Grindhouse to heaping laurels on a movie that pits sensitive Nazis against treacherous resisters, it may be time to get uncool and start pointing the finger.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
04-20-2007 |
Movies
Austin City Limitsnew
Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
03-23-2007 |
Movies
Unromancing the Stonenew
In 2006, the Basic Instinct beauty showed she wasn't just another pretty face.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
01-30-2007 |
Movies
'Over the Hedge,' Under the Radarnew
Most contemporary computer-animated movies are too well-adjusted and benign to be more than ephemeral blips in the history of children’s cinema.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
05-18-2006 |
Movies
