http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:26:55 -0700 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:51:05 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Exile-from-Godville--Lars-and-the-real-world-of-Antichrist?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner While audiences continue to reel in their seats from the slightest bump and boo coming out of what amounts to be some pretty normal multiplex activity, true horror creeps into town this week.   Antichrist, the new film from that most do... Foreign Art House Independent horror Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:51:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d22-Exile-from-Godville--Lars-and-the-real-world-of-Antichrist?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d2-All-Yesterdays-Parties--Last-Year-at-Marienbad-plays-LACMA?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner  LACMA kicks off another amazing retrospective this year as the films of the French New Wave's Left Bank master Alain Resnais are featured for the next couple of weeks, beginning Friday, October 2nd and ending on Saturday, October 17th.  Th... foreign film Foreign Art House Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:09:02 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m10d2-All-Yesterdays-Parties--Last-Year-at-Marienbad-plays-LACMA?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d19-In-the-eye-of-the-storm--Epic-Iranian-TV-series-under-fire?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner On Friday, September 18, I had the privilege to sit down and break bread with internationally renowned Iranian director Masoud Jafari Jozani and one of his most recent collaborators, veteran American actor and producer, Al Gomez.  That conversat... foreign film Foreign Art House Iranian Film Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:31:11 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d19-In-the-eye-of-the-storm--Epic-Iranian-TV-series-under-fire?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Sound-and-vision--Extract-composer-George-S-Clinton-on-the-soundtrack-of-reel-life?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Photo Credit:  Michael MaplesNow hear this:  the moving image, as we know it, would be nothing without music.  Since the days of "silent" pictures, filmmakers (and audiences) have realized that music playing over a scene can ... Soundtrack comedy Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:16:14 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m9d4-Sound-and-vision--Extract-composer-George-S-Clinton-on-the-soundtrack-of-reel-life?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Warrior-of-the-wasteland--An-interview-with-Inglorious-Bastards-director-Enzo-G-Castellari?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Photo courtesy of www.enzogcastellari.com.  Pictured: Diane Kruger, Castellari, Tarantino Despite having made over 40 films ranging from westerns to thrillers to science fiction, the recent attention on legendary Italian director Enzo G. Ca... Grindhouse Foreign Interview Action '70s exploitation cult Italian Grindhouse Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:45:01 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d26-Warrior-of-the-wasteland--An-interview-with-Inglorious-Bastards-director-Enzo-G-Castellari?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d18-A-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-back-to-India-or-a-magical-mystery-tour-on-a-road-less-traveled?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner This article is really not about the star of this movie. . .Indian megastar Shah Rukh Khan's recent humiliating detainment in one of our airports is merely an indication of our country's lack of fascination with the world-wide phenomenon known as the... foreign film Bollywood Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:49:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d18-A-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-back-to-India-or-a-magical-mystery-tour-on-a-road-less-traveled?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d6-In-the-city--An-interview-with-British-director-Shane-Meadows?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner All mod cons. . ."How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!”        --&q... Foreign Art House Independent Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:09:15 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m8d6-In-the-city--An-interview-with-British-director-Shane-Meadows?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Return-to-OZploitation--Director-Mark-Hartleys-tale-of-being-Not-Quite-Hollywood?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner The wild, untold story of Ozploitation!Where is this land, whose journey takes us down under the rainbow, a road less traveled and littered with comatose killers, entrepreneurial vampires, environmentally-(un)safe couples, stunts & rock, politics... Grindhouse Documentary foreign film Art House Independent Action '70s exploitation horror cult Ozploitation Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:35:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Return-to-OZploitation--Director-Mark-Hartleys-tale-of-being-Not-Quite-Hollywood?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Can-you-dig-it--The-Warriors-come-out-to-playiaaay-at-the-New-Bev-719720?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Can you count, suckaaahs?Playing at the New Beverly from Sunday, 7/19, to Monday, 7/20, is a double feature from one of America's pop culture cineastes, Walter Hill.  Hill's credits include the Eddie Murphy film career launching 48 Hrs. (1982), ... comic book fantasy Action exploitation cult Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:26:04 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Can-you-dig-it--The-Warriors-come-out-to-playiaaay-at-the-New-Bev-719720?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d7-The-strange-vice-of-Mr-D--The-American-Cinematheque-talks-Italian-79716?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Chris D., Head Programmer of The American Cinematheque talks about the Italian Grindhouse Festival playing at the Egyptian Theatre from July 9-July 16.Marvin Miranda:  First off:  How would you best describe "Italian Grindhouse" t... Grindhouse Foreign exploitation horror cult Italian Grindhouse Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:53:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d7-The-strange-vice-of-Mr-D--The-American-Cinematheque-talks-Italian-79716?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Reflections-in-Black--The-American-Cinematheque-plays-Italian-Grindhouse?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Image:  Columbia PicturesCourtesy of Chris D., Head Programmer, The American Cinematheque:So Sweet, So Perverse - Italian Grindhouse TreasuresJuly 9 – 16 at the Egyptian TheatreFrom the sublime to the ridiculous, the Italian genre films fr... Grindhouse gangsters Foreign exploitation horror cult Italian Grindhouse Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:52:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d6-Reflections-in-Black--The-American-Cinematheque-plays-Italian-Grindhouse?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Pop-life--French-director-JeanJacques-Beineix-and-the-rebirth-and-death-of-pop?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner No diva here. . . (Photo:  Marvin Miranda)Pop is dead.It went into cardiac arrest on June 25, 2009 and will never recover.  But as frantic attempts to resuscitate it were taking place, a pop re-birth of sorts was flickering in a darkened mo... Foreign Art House Interview Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:31:31 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m7d1-Pop-life--French-director-JeanJacques-Beineix-and-the-rebirth-and-death-of-pop?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d22-Pretty-in-pastels--Director-Suzi-Yoonessi-talks-about-her-some-kind-of-wonderful-Dear-Lemon-Lima?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Sweet. . . (Photo Courtesy Sad Love Pictures)Directed by feature-length first-timer, Suzi Yoonessi, Dear Lemon Lima is about the beauty and heartache of living the life of an awkward thirteen year-old girl set against the backdrop of the barely chart... Art House Interview Indie Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:50:17 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d22-Pretty-in-pastels--Director-Suzi-Yoonessi-talks-about-her-some-kind-of-wonderful-Dear-Lemon-Lima?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d20-Embodiment-of-Sadism--AuthorScreenwriter-Dan-Madigan-on-Coffin-Joes-Return?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Si, evil. . .Before beginning to write a piece on the hallucinogenic depravity known as Embodiment of Evil (Jose Mojica Marins' return to the internationally notorious character known as "Coffin Joe") I opened up an email from Mondo Lucha-A... Grindhouse Foreign horror cult Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:42:59 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d20-Embodiment-of-Sadism--AuthorScreenwriter-Dan-Madigan-on-Coffin-Joes-Return?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d19-Bob-Byington--Me--An-interview-with-the-director-of-Harmony--Me?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Photo by David GodlisLike a Warren Oates during his Monte Hellman period, or even a character out of a Wong Kar Wai flick, the movies of director Bob Byington traverse treacherous human terrain while simultaneously maintaining an air of romanticism a... Art House Interview Indie mumblecore Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:59:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d19-Bob-Byington--Me--An-interview-with-the-director-of-Harmony--Me?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d17-LAFF-until-you-cry--LA-Film-Fest-offers-2-bitter-2-sweet?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner  The Los Angeles Film Festival kicks off Thursday, June 18, and ends on Sunday, June 28, and as its press release states, "more than 70 feature films – narrative and documentary - are featured in the Festival, alongside gala premieres... Documentary Foreign Art House Indie mumblecore Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:24:12 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d17-LAFF-until-you-cry--LA-Film-Fest-offers-2-bitter-2-sweet?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Technicolor-Nightmares--Suspiria-plays-at-the-drivein-tonight?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner It's only a movie. . .It's only a movie. . .What can be said about Suspiria (1977) that hasn't already been said? In a recent interview with legendary Italian director Luigi Cozzi, Cozzi would tell me the following about his one-time writin... fantasy drive-in horror cult Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:12:36 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Technicolor-Nightmares--Suspiria-plays-at-the-drivein-tonight?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d11-Back-from-the-grave--The-drivein-gets-a-new-beginning?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner At the drive-in. . .If you thought the drive-in was a thing of the past, well, it is. But, that doesn't stop the drive-in from digging itself out of its shallow grave every so often, much like B-movie sequels that just refuse to let a franchise ... Interview drive-in horror Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:10:56 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d11-Back-from-the-grave--The-drivein-gets-a-new-beginning?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d9-All-creatures-great-and-small--Notorious-reputations-come-in-small-packages?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Even dwarfs started small. . .Playing at the New Beverly tonight, June 9th, as part of a Grindhouse double bill, is a movie so notorious in its reputation that it's a wonder it never fell into the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) list of "V... Grindhouse '70s exploitation Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:22:09 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d9-All-creatures-great-and-small--Notorious-reputations-come-in-small-packages?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Writers-Block--David-Rielly-blogs-one-screenplay-pitch-a-day-for-a-year?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner Photo courtesy David Rielly. . .Screenplay pitch for Tuesday, March 3, 2009:Title:  The Googlebots Plot:  Newly-created search bot KIKI71 happily browses the web carrying out its indexing function until it stumbles upon the SPIDER... Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:43:26 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-4240-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner~y2009m6d8-Writers-Block--David-Rielly-blogs-one-screenplay-pitch-a-day-for-a-year?cid=exrss-LA-Alternative-Movie-Examiner