Romantic, adventurous and able-bodied, Cary Elwes’ character in “The Princess Bride” delivers a variety of often-quoted lines as Westley. One of them became the namesake of Elwes and Joe Layden’s book, “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of The Princess Bride,” a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film. On Tuesday, Elwes […]
Category Archives: Film & TV
Winter TV Preview
In 2015, every network seems to be going off its hinges with the return of highly acclaimed shows still showing their youth, such as “Broad City” premiering Wednesday. With original online shows that now seem like cultural icons, such as “House of Cards,” premiering Feb. 27, and the final seasons of shows that have held […]
Q&A: Film and Television Archive highlights Cecil B. DeMille’s works
Epic stories of religious and historical significance such as Cleopatra and the Ten Commandments stand the test of time, documented in novels and history books, and flew off the pages and onto the the big screen in the early 20th century under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille. DeMille is one of the many filmmakers […]
Cross Cut: Iranian filmmakers seek artistic freedom
In film editing, cross-cutting is the technique of cutting between actions occurring at the same time, but in different locations. In Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, foreign cinema rarely takes the spotlight from the plethora of local releases. Columnist Eileen Li discovers foreign cinema screenings in the L.A. area each week, placing […]
Movie Review: ‘Mommy’
Had Xavier Dolan’s “Mommy” won the Cannes Film Festival’s top honor, the Palme d’Or, Dolan would have been the youngest winner in history at 25 years old, surpassing Steven Soderbergh’s accomplished win for “Sex, Lies, and Videotape” by one year. Still, maybe that says something about the Canadian director as a budding artist in the […]
Balloon & Panel: Comic books do not need adaptations to capture audience
Comic books are everywhere – Marvel and DC Comics are mining decades of storylines for a huge slate of movies and television shows. But comics are more than a source to be mined for superhero blockbusters. New creators are dealing with issues every month in ways that couldn’t be done in other formats – issues […]
Winter Movie Preview
The first months of the year are generally a cold, desolate time at the theaters, a period of audience fodder several steps below the Oscar-campaigning pieces of November and December. That isn’t the case in Los Angeles, a town notorious for being neither cold nor desolate, as last year’s festival hopefuls and foreign hits steadily […]