D.W. Griffith

Western Costume Co. and the battle for accuracy

2012-06-16 16:32:58

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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood

2011-12-25 00:00:00

Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op — they know not what they do. Maybe you're not from this...

Mo Rothman dies at 92; found new audience for Chaplin

2011-09-29 00:00:00

Mo Rothman, a veteran studio executive who helped pave the way for Charlie Chaplin to end an acrimonious, two-decade exile from the United States and returned some of the filmmaker's classic movies to American screens, died Sept. 15 in Los Angeles. He was...

On Location: One of Hollywood's oldest studios gives birth to a new soundstage

2011-06-21 16:33:53

The Sports Guy goes Hollywood: Can Bill Simmons make Grantland a must read for pop culture lovers?

2011-07-15 16:32:45

Chinua Achebe and the Gish Prize

2010-10-22 16:33:56

On Location: New book presents a photographic history of filming in Los Angeles

2010-12-14 16:33:27

Sidney Lumet dies at 86; prolific 'actor's director' steered clear of Hollywood

2011-04-10 00:00:00

Sidney Lumet, the prolific four-time Oscar-nominated director known for guiding strong performances in classic films such as "12 Angry Men," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Network," died Saturday. He was 86. Lumet, whose film career spanned more than 50 years,...

Book review: 'The New Biographical Dictionary of Film' by David Thomson

2010-12-02 00:00:00

Film both mimics our dreams and provokes our fantasies. The idea that an individual's relationship with it might be a narcotic, a heady mood or attitude, an atmosphere that changes speed and temperature but can never be escaped is central to David...

His new game: Jake Gyllenhaal enters the Comic-Con zone with 'Prince of Persia.'

2010-05-07 16:35:43

Dodgers, Braves Tie for Pennant

2009-09-28 16:32:39

Gold Derby nuggets: Kathy Griffin guests on 'SVU' | Is Meryl Streep playing favorites? | Denzel Washington returns to Broadway

2009-11-11 16:33:08

D.W. Griffith, from left, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, with lawyers looking on, sign United Artists into being in 1919.

2010-10-19 14:16:27

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-- with the dueling swords and accusations of rebels and aristocrats. The foreground action is ardent, the background volatile; there's nothing middling about it.

2010-05-19 11:07:08

) who realizes he's a tramp only in the final scene. This saga of the Little Fellow in the Big City is lilting slapstick poetry, an extended tragicomic riff on the theme of urban anonymity.

2010-04-19 13:37:19