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LAFF ‘09 Review: Branson

LiC reviews the terrific documentary Branson from last week’s Los Angeles Film Festival. You won’t believe me when I tell you that the stories of a bunch of people on the lower rungs of the entertainment industry in tourist mecca Branson Missouri are good ones, but it’s true.

LAFF ‘09: The Awards

The 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival wrapped up this evening with the awards: Wah Do Dem and Those Who Remain took the Target Filmmaker Narrative and Documentary awards, while The Stoning of Soraya M., Born Without and Soul Power took the audience prizes.

LAFF Interview: Matt and Joel Bissonnette – Passenger Side

An interview with writer/director Matthew Bissonnette and his actor brother Joel about their new film Passenger Side which recently premiered in narrative competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival

LAFF ‘09 Interview: Alicia Scherson – Turistas

An LiC interview with Alicia Scherson, the Chilean filmmaker whose film Turistas just made its US premiere in narrative competition at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival

LAFF ‘09 Review: In the Loop

Los Angeles Film Festival review of the UK comedy In The Loop starring Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini and Mimi Kennedy

LAFF ‘09: Tehran to Los Angeles

Street protests by Iranian-Americans in Westwood coincide with a LAFF screening of The Stoning of Soraya M.

LAFF ‘09 Review: Passenger Side

Los Angeles film festival review of Matthew Bissonette’s comedy Passenger Side starring Adam Scott and Joel Bissonette

LAFF ‘09 Review: Turistas

Los Angeles Film Festival review of Alicia Scherson’s Turistas

Poster: Big Fan

The poster for Robert (The Wrestler) Siegel’s Big Fan starring Patton Oswalt.

Inside LAFF 2009 – Narrative Competition

A closer look at Narrative Competition category for The Los Angeles Film Festival (6/18 – 6/28)