Citizen Kane (movie)

Film Independent at LACMA celebrates 'Valley Girl'

2013-05-16 06:00:00

Film Independent at LACMA is holding a 1980s costume contest after the 30th anniversary screening of Martha Coolidge's endearing comedy "Valley Girl" on Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater. The romantic comedy was inspired by Frank Zappa and his...

American Cinematheque to celebrate the late Roger Ebert

2013-05-12 13:21:00

Thumbs up to the American Cinematheque. The independent, nonprofit cultural organization is paying homage to the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert with a new film series, "The Great Movies: A Tribute to Roger Ebert." The influential...

Old movies still draw a crowd

2013-04-19 08:00:00

When it comes to old films, Robert Osborne is hard to stump. But this time he had to consult his notes. "Hold on, it's so obscure, even I don't remember the name of it," said Osborne, who has served as the main on-air host of Turner Classic Movies for...

Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end

2013-04-04 16:20:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...

Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic

2013-04-04 17:46:00

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...

Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West

2013-02-23 22:30:00

Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...

Richard Collins dies at 98; onetime blacklisted screenwriter

2013-02-15 00:00:00

Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...

When H.G. Wells met Orson Welles, Or: How typos lead to neat things

2013-02-14 08:45:00

The strangest part of this story may be that in the middle of World War II, 74-year-old British author H.G. Wells took a train to Texas to speak to a meeting of the United States Brewers Assn. I can't quite figure out why he was tapped to speak there;...

Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood

2012-06-08 16:32:00

First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. 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...

Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady

2012-05-02 00:00:00

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92. Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...

Spencer Tracy retrospective at Billy Wilder Theater

2012-01-07 00:00:00

'The Artist': Critics speak up to praise silent film

2011-11-25 16:36:33

Novak played a dual role in the movie "Vertigo" opposite Jimmy Stewart. In 2012, "Vertigo" knocked "Citizen Kane" off the top of the British Film Institute's list of best films ever made.

2012-10-19 11:11:31

Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey bare nearly all in "Magic Mike," Steven Soderbergh's dive into the world of male strippers that opens Friday. The film was inspired by Tatum's short stint in the world of exotic dancing when he was in his late teens.

2012-06-29 00:00:00

"Magic Mike," director Steven Soderbergh's male stripper movie, has been called the "Citizen Kane" of stripper movies by Entertainment Weekly columnist Libby Gelman-Waxner (pen name for screenwriter Paul Rudnick), and the quote is being played on TV commercials for the movie everywhere.

2012-06-27 16:16:57