Tucked away in the hills of Los Santos, a wondrous and lawless land, is the Vinewood Bowl, a gigantic amphitheater that typically sits empty. Modeled after the real-life Hollywood Bowl in Los...
Read moreThe directorial thumbprint of David Lynch spawned its own adjective decades ago, perhaps most thoroughly codified by the writer David Foster Wallace. Sent by Premiere magazine to the set of Lynch’s 1997...
Read moreA conjurer of cinematic dreamscapes that bordered on nightmare, a creator of images that burned themselves onto the back of one’s eyelids, the director (and actor, musician and artist) David Lynch cut...
Read more‘Year 10’Rent or buy it on most major platforms.Ben Goodger’s film starts by informing us that we are a decade into the end of humanity (hence the title) and the few survivors...
Read more‘I’m Still Here’This political drama directed by Walter Salles centers on a family in 1970s Brazil whose lives are disrupted by a series of disappearances during the military dictatorship.From our review:“I’m Still...
Read moreA few members of a budding amateur theater company stand in a mostly empty amphitheater, plotting a new production of “Hamlet.” The stage is large and bare, set in a landscape that...
Read moreIt felt fitting that my city was burning when I heard the news Thursday that David Lynch had died at 78. Few filmmakers grasped the complexities of Los Angeles better than Lynch...
Read moreDavid Lynch, whose death, at 78, was announced on Thursday, was one of the most distinctive voices in modern cinema. His work defied easy categorization other than to say it was his...
Read moreCameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx probably got a good workout filming the fight scenes in “Back in Action,” the latest high-gloss junk from Netflix. Clearly the actors earned their paychecks in a...
Read moreThe filmmaker possessed a singular vision — and a knack for finding collaborators who could convey it.
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