AltWeeklies Wire
'Starting Out in the Evening': Intelligent Designnew
If Starting Out in the Evening is a movie about how little we know and how much we presume, it is also about transformation, and heartbreak and halting renewal.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Family Matters in 'Margot at the Wedding'new
Everyone is on the brink of something in Noah Baumbach's latest -- marriage, divorce, puberty -- and by the time one character huffs, "I'm out of breath," you'll have a reasonable idea of how she feels.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tackling Pop Culture's Greatest Enigmanew
I'm Not There turns out to be a triumph of intellect and cinematic imagination that feels light rather than heavy, and such a novel approach to film biography as to leave every Ray and Walk the Line looking especially clueless.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
'Southland Diaries': Re-Cut but Not Improvednew
Richard Kelly seems to think that to merely mention Fallujah or global warming -- or to name a bank after Karl Rove -- is the same as actually having an opinion about them, and his all-you-can-eat buffet of cinematic in-references operates on pretty much the same superficial level.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Kelly, Southland Tales
'Redacted' Never Flinches From the Casualties of Warnew
Brian De Palma is angry, about the war in Iraq and about the fact that his Iraq movie, Redacted, has fallen victim to the very censorship it is, in part, a reaction against.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Brian De Palma, Redacted
'Mr. Magorium': Small Wondernew
Like most Christmas movies, Mr. Magorium's stocking comes stuffed with PSAs (albeit well-written ones, by the spiritless current standards of the genre) alerting children to what they of all people already know.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geeknew
Agents 2.0: The new generation of dealmakers at UTA Online.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
11-16-2007 |
Movies
Michael Haneke Over Americanew
Some great directors begin in TV, like Austrian Michael Haneke. Eight of his TV films have been subtitled into English and are touring North America for the first time as part of the Boston University – curated retrospective "Michael Haneke: A Cinema of Provocation."
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Haneke
Coen Brothers to Audience: 'Hold Still'new
The Coen brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-09-2007 |
Reviews
Scenes from the Strikenew
"It's not going to be as much fun in two months, I'll tell you that," says John Carlen, a veteran Writers Guild member carrying a union placard.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-09-2007 |
Movies
Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine Innew
South Korean filmmaker illuminates life's emotional twists and turns.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lee Chang-Dong, Secret Sunshine
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
Bad Things Happen to Bad People in 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'new
That sly old elf Sidney Lumet opens his new movie with a sexual encounter you might associate with a man spending his frustration on a compliant hooker.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
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
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
