Louis Malle

City of Lights, City of Angels French film fest books 38 features

2013-03-26 19:30:00

The 17th City of Lights, City of Angels French film festival announced its most ambitious slate to date Tuesday with 38 feature films and 19 shorts. Of the 38 features, three are international premieres, 11 are North American or U.S. premieres and 16...

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2011-03-25 16:36:05

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2011-04-19 16:32:14

Libraries: a bigger source of DVDs than Netflix

2010-07-30 16:35:01

Julianne Moore knows how to make them suffer

2008-06-15 00:00:00

JULIANNE MOORE has made a specialty of suffering in silence, her pale skin pulling tight across her cheekbones to form a flawless mask, a shell of perfect beauty concealing a soul in deepest turmoil. Only in private moments, when no one but the audience...

A day in New Orleans

2007-08-27 00:00:00

Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Fausset guides you on a day in the life of his former hometown, from daybreak to closing time, with diary entries that capture the faces and voices of a battered city that lives nonetheless by the defiant credo of its...

Fanning's turn as rape victim sparks alarm

2007-01-10 00:00:00

Consider this your early-warning Sundance Film Festival controversy alert: Cute little Dakota Fanning plays a precocious child sex-abuse and rape victim in Full Moon Films' upcoming "Hounddog." The issue: Fanning, who turns 13 next month, is reportedly...

Double-barreled firepower

2005-01-23 00:00:00

It's one of the most urgent questions facing men of a certain age today, particularly in Latin American countries, a question that strikes at one's core values and affirms one's identity as a soccer-mad, tequila-swigging, red-blooded varon. That question...

Youth

2012-11-26 16:30:14

Louis Malle's daughter Justine fictionalizes (barely) her life when she was 20 and coping with love and her father's approaching death, in "Youth." Understated and obviously very close to home, the pic works as a small-scale study of a woman less mature...

Tomei and Winslet: nudity = Oscar glory?

2009-02-19 00:00:00

Take 26. � That's the shot that director Darren Aronofsky used of Marisa Tomei in one of "The Wrestler's" pivotal dance sequences, one in which the 44-year-old Academy Award nominee gyrates and prances, flaunts and slinks -- largely in the nude --...

Almodovar hace blog de "Los abrazos rotos"

2008-03-27 00:00:00

'Elevator to the Gallows'

2005-07-29 00:00:00

As beautifully fatalistic as its title, the classic thriller "Elevator to the Gallows" is a consummate entertainment rich with the romantic atmosphere of Paris in the 1950s. Coming at a turning point in French cinematic history, it drew upon several major...

's "Brief Encounter" (1945, pictured). The ultimate tale of middle-class near-adultery stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as heartbreaking almost-lovers -- and Lean's vivid, delicate monochrome intensifies their anguish.

2011-08-15 00:00:00

Brooke Shields (1978) When she was 12, Brooke Shields appeared in Louis Malle's film "Pretty Baby," playing a child living in a New Orleans brothel. The film caused a huge uproar and some called it child pornography.

2008-05-07 12:20:49

Phantom India, a documentary Louis Malle filmed in 1968, will be shown in three parts at LACMA this weekend.

2006-03-13 16:05:01