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Seeing the Light with Director Carlos Reygadasnew

Reygadas' third feature, Silent Light, is in some ways his most audacious undertaking yet: a drama of marital and spiritual crisis set in a modern-day Mennonite community on the outskirts of Chihuahua, filmed entirely in the German-derived Plautdeitsch language.

L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas | 11-02-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light

Tilda Swinton: The Ice Queen Meltethnew

Though Swinton's career has taken a decided turn for the commercial these days, I still think of her as the intimidating eminence rouge in the elliptically stylized Jarman films that launched her career, or the ornately costumed androgyne in Potter's Orlando, or even the frigid witch in Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia.

L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor | 11-02-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Burn After Reading

Robert Redford and the Facade of a Nationnew

Redford is once again traversing the chasm between the American dream and the American reality in a new film that meets the War on Terror and a grab bag of other sociopolitical issues head-on.

L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas | 11-02-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford

Sidney Lumet's Long Journeynew

The venerable director returns with a devilish thriller.

L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas | 10-26-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Sidney Lumet

Playing Down on Her Luck, Amy Ryan's Star Risesnew

"I hope people ask me, 'Where did you find that local actress?,'" Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his directing debut, Gone Baby Gone.

L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor | 10-26-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone

The Eccentric Tony Kaye Weighs in on Abortion Debatenew

As it turns out, Lake of Fire is serious and provocative and heartfelt and probably as close as any movie on an issue this vast and irresolute can come to being an exhaustive survey.

L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas | 10-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Lake of Fire, Tony Kaye

A Dark-Skinned Good Guynew

Tall, slender and elegant in a charcoal-gray leather jacket and neatly trimmed chin stubble, Ashraf Barhom is an Israeli Arab making his Hollywood debut as the righteous Saudi Arabian who sets an example of personal and professional heroism in The Kingdom.

L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor | 10-02-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom

Something in the Air Will Kill Younew

In Larry Fessenden's new film, The Last Winter, weather is the monster.

L.A. Weekly | Judith Lewis | 09-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Larry Fessenden, The Last Winter

The Many Freckled Faces of Catherine Keenernew

Keener plays Jan, a slackly conceived and overly familiar character, but she brings the role a warmth, specificity and diffuse sadness that makes you wish she had a lot more screen time.

L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor | 09-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn

Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyesnew

Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself and his new movie, Into the Wild.

L.A. Weekly | Joe Donnelly | 09-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn

Jodie Foster Discusses 'The Brave One'new

Jodie Foster isn't one of those people who stumbles through life unconscious of who she is and where she's going, nor is she one of those actors who have no idea how or why they work their magic, and who can sound endearingly insecure in interviews.

L.A. Weekly | Judith Lewis | 09-07-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One