AltWeeklies Wire
Tribal Flush: Pechanga People 'Disenrolled' en Massenew
On the eve of what could be the largest gambling expansion in U.S. history, a tale of power, betrayal and lost Indian heritage.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
01-04-2008 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
'There Will Be Blood' is Anderson's 'Citizen Kane'new
With There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson has taken a stab at making The Great American Movie -- and I daresay he's made one of them.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-28-2007 |
Reviews
American Cinema: Our Best Diplomat in 2007?new
Wherever my travels have taken me this year, whether as close as the screening room down the street or as far afield as the Cannes Film Festival in France, the sentiment has been the same: What a banner year it has been for American movies.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-28-2007 |
Movies
Top 10 Dishes of 2007new
Hummus replaced foie gras, Southern Thai was hot and cheese shredded.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
12-28-2007 |
Food+Drink
2007's Long Players You Might Have Missednew
There were so many modestly brilliant records that it seems silly to crow on and on about "Bird Flu" when many tracks ascended alongside of it. Here are some of them, in no particular order.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
12-28-2007 |
Music
Were You a Fashion Victim in '07?new
If you wore more than three of these items, the answer is yes.
L.A. Weekly |
Lina Lecaro |
12-28-2007 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
Worst Campaign Tricks of 2007new
We all know it ain't badminton, but does presidential-campaign politics necessarily have to be an all-out flop into the mud?
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
12-28-2007 |
Commentary
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Way He Lives Nownew
As his fourth film in a decade arrives in theaters, the movies' most enigmatic leading man reveals the method behind his onscreen madness.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Clint Eastwood: The Set Whisperernew
Shooting quietly on the Changeling set.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Changeling
Juan Antonio Bayona: Refinding Neverlandnew
A conversation with The Orphanage's master of melancholic terror.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
Terrorizing Mayor Villaraigosanew
Animal-rights zealots target his sister and suggest he should die.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
12-21-2007 |
Animal Issues
Tags: animal issues
Big Bill's Dicey Movesnew
Clinton is back at the table, playing us for chumps.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
12-21-2007 |
Commentary
A Music Journalist Remembers the Old Dewey Coxnew
Cox clocked me and then I puked.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
12-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dispatch from the European Film Awardsnew
A large digital screen featuring a clip of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless, puffing on his Lucky Strike in an endless loop, was the closest the audience at the 20th European Film Awards in Berlin wound up getting to the evening's lifetime achievement honoree, Jean-Luc Godard.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
12-14-2007 |
Movies
'The Kite Runner' Doesn't Flynew
Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster's flaccid adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's vivid 2002 novel, which covers three decades of Afghanistan's misery under serial totalitarian rule.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, The Kite Runner
