Thirty movies worth keeping an eye out for in the coming year including works by Scorsese, Polanski, Greengrass, Baumbach, Stone, Fincher and maybe even Soderbergh and the Coens.
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I caught a screening last night of Séraphine, the film which recently won seven of France’s César Awards and which currently stands alongside Tokyo Sonata as one of my favorites of the year.
It tells the story of Séraphine Louis, AKA Séraphine de Senlis, an uneducated washerwoman and housekeeper who was guided by voices to paint. [...]
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By the time I saw Sugar at AFI Fest last November, I was awash in finely rendered, spare, character-driven bits of American independent film: Ballast, Wendy & Lucy, Momma’s Man – there were others but they’re all kind of a blur to me at the moment. So it is that I liked the latest film [...]
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Matt Damon in Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant
One to watch for 2009
Forecasting the future is a tricky business, but as one calendar year draws to a close and a new one awaits just over the horizon, it’s hard not to look ahead to see what’s coming.
Here then is a look at LiC’s 20 most anticipated films [...]
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road
Directed by Sam Mendes from Richard Yates’ popular novel, Revolutionary Road looks into the dark constricted heart of the 1950s American Dream to find a marriage disintegrating under the weight of an invisible suburban malaise. Starring Kate Winslet and Leonard DiCaprio as the embattled couple, the film seemed [...]
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Yes it’s a Swedish movie with a vampire, but more than anything Let the Right One In is a tender and surprisingly sweet coming of age tale.
It’s about a little boy who is bullied at school and though it’s true that the little girl who moves in next door might be a vampire, the supernatural elements [...]
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Eileen Walsh in Eden, a Liberation Entertainment Release
Photo credit: Bernard Walsh
It’s not set to be officially released until November, but Declan Recks’ Irish marriage drama Eden kicks off the Los Angeles Irish Film Festival on Thursday, and it’s playing the annual Woodstock Film Festival on Thursday and Saturday. Besides that, it’s a terrific film and [...]
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On the set of Coraline (David Strick)
One of the last cool things the LA Times does is its Hollywood Backlot feature that consists of behind-the-scenes photographs from Hollywood photographer David Strick. It almost makes up for ghastly Elizabeth Snead. Not quite, but almost.
This week, Strick takes a look at Henry (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Selick’s stop-motion animated [...]
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Miramax would like to remind you that Mike Leigh’s charming Happy-Go-Lucky is coming to limited release on October 10 with expansions planned for subsequent weekends. In the mean time, you can get your very own Daily Dose of Happiness Happy-Go-Lucky widget:
Sally Hawkins plays Poppy, an unfailingly optimistic schoolteacher whose glowing worldview is challenged on all sides when [...]
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Feihong Yu and Henry O in Wayne Wang’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
(photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the latest film from indie icon Wayne Wang (Chan is Missing, Dim Sum, The Joy Luck Club) opens in New York on September 19 and Los Angeles on September 26 while a [...]
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