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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
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
The Dilemma of the Literate Picketnew
While I won't lower the red flag or hang-up my IWW T-shirt, I confess to mixed emotions about the strike by the Writers Guild of America.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-16-2007 |
Movies
Lowering the Stakesnew
As networks try to recreate cult-followed fantasy and sci-fi shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the new shows are derivative and, worse, dreadful to mediocre.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
11-09-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
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
Sweet Boy Falls for Inflatable Sex Toy in 'Lars'new
Craig Gillespie and writer Nancy Oliver have reduced the ick factor by desexualizing the setup; Bianca may be anatomically correct, but she and Lars have a chaste relationship.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-12-2007 |
Reviews
Michael Caine Goes Back to the House of Gamesnew
In Sleuth, Caine returns to a psychodrama of his youth, with the all-star support of Pinter, Branagh, and Law.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth
Ang Lee Turns Up the Heat in 'Lust, Caution'new
Lee, as always, is a master of character nuance, but Lust, Caution may prove tougher sledding for audiences than his previous work.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
Andrew Dominik's Jesse James Epic Digs Deepernew
Beyond the obvious reveal of the film's title, most of the major chronological turning points are either skipped in their entirety or divulged before the fact in narration culled from Hansen's elegiac prose, forcing audiences to abandon any traditional expectation of narrative linearity in favor of existential reflection.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Wade Major |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
The Return of Popeye -- Sailor, Hero, American Malenew
Popeye has just resurfaced in two formats: Warner Home Video's gluttonous four-disc Popeye The Sailor: 1933-1936, Vol. 1 and E.C. Segar's book Popeye: I Yam What I Yam, published by Fantagraphics.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Kirk Silsbee |
09-21-2007 |
Movies
'In the Valley of Elah' Looks at The War Once Homenew
Paul Haggis fights to reveal one of combat's most dismissed consequences.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mark Keizer |
09-14-2007 |
Reviews
