KPCC: FilmWeek

FilmWeek for November 20, 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:11:40 -0800

The week’s new releases, including New Moon, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, The Blind Side, Planet 51, Defamation, That Evening Sun, and La Danse, among others. Plus "High Society", Grace Kelly's life, her impact on Hollywood, and her years as a princess.

FilmWeek for November 13, 2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:51:37 -0800

the week’s new film releases including 2012, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Pirate Radio, Endgame, TEN9EIGHT: Shoot For The Moon, and Women In Trouble, among others, plus the cinematography of Laszlo and Vilmos.

FilmWeek for November 6, 2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:15:27 -0800

The week’s new releases including Disney’s A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare At Goats, The Box, Precious, The Fourth Kind, The Yes Men Fix The World, Turning Green, The Wedding Song, Died Young Stayed Pretty, and Araya. Plus, author William Mann talks about his new biography of the famed film star, Elizabeth Taylor.

FilmWeek for October 30, 2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:30:05 -0800

The week’s new film releases, including This Is It, Gentlemen Broncos, Skin, The House of the Devil, The Fall, and Jump. The AFI Fest presents movies by emerging and established filmmakers. Larry Mantle talks with AFI Fest’s artistic director about this year’s lineup. Finally, author Mitchell Zuckoff joins Larry Mantle to talk about legendary Hollywood movie maker Robert Altman.

FilmWeek for October 23, 2009

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:43:27 -0800

The week’s new film releases including Amelia, Antichrist, Astro Boy, Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Ong Bak 2, Motherhood, Untitled, The Maid, The Canyon, and Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky. Mitch Albom is here. The author of Tuesdays with Morrie has written a new book that profiles a Jewish rabbi preparing for his own death and a Christian pastor who works with Detroit's homeless.

FilmWeek for October 16, 2009

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:05:50 -0800

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, and Charles Solomon of amazon.com discuss the week’s new film releases, including Where the Wild Things Are; Law Abiding Citizen, Black Dynamite; New York, I Love You; Visual Acoustics; Trucker; and Bronson.

FilmWeek for October 9, 2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:44:47 -0800

The week’s new film releases, including Couples Retreat; An Education; Bliss; 35 Shots of Rum; The Damned United; Good Hair; The Horse Boy; Paranormal Activity; and Peter and Vandy. And, a look at films of 1939, including the Wizard of Oz and Stagecoach.

FilmWeek for October 2, 2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:13:57 -0800

the week’s new film releases including The Invention of Lying, Zombieland, Whip It!, A Serious Man, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, A Beautiful Life, My Fuhrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, More Than A Game, In Search of Beethoven, and The Providence Effect. And the arrest of filmmaker Roman Polanski.

FilmWeek for September 25, 2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:26:58 -0800

The week’s new film releases, including Surrogates, Fame, The Boys Are Back, Capitalism: A Love Story, Coco Before Chanel, Disgrace, The Most Dangerous Man In America, We Live In Public, and Lord, Save Us From Your Followers.

FilmWeek for September 18, 2009

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:43:26 -0800

The week’s new releases, including Love Happens, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, The Informant, Bright Star, The Burning Plain, American Casino, Laila’s Birthday, Crude, Paris, and You, the Living. And we talk about the Montreal and Toronto film festivals, and about the deaths this week of Larry Gelbart, Henry Gibson, and Patrick Swayze.

FilmWeek for September 11, 2009

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:00:25 -0800

Reviews of the week’s new film releases including Whiteout, 9, Walt and El Grupo, The Other Man, Beyond A Reasonable Doubt, Big Fan, Loren Cass, White on Rice, Art and Copy, No Impact Man, and The September Issue. The critics will also discuss the career of Entertainment writer, Army Archerd of Variety who died this week. And, a talk with KPCC film critic Jean Oppenheimer of Village Voice Media who has just returned from the Telluride Film Festival.

FilmWeek for September 4, 2009

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:01:18 -0800

Reviews of this weeks films including All About Steve, Extract, Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-Itchy-Footed Mutha, Amreeka, Still Walking and The Headless Woman. Plus a talk about Russian film and the Russian government’s regulation of film.

FilmWeek for August 28, 2009

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:07:52 -0800

Reviews of the week’s new film releases including Taking Woodstock, Five Minutes of Heaven, World’s Greatest Dad, Play The Game, This Beautiful City, Orgies and the Meaning of Life, The Baader-Meinof Complex, and Cloud 9. Plus a talk with Bobcat Goldthwait.

FilmWeek for August 21, 2009

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:13:40 -0800

Reviews including Inglourious Basterds, Shorts, My One and Only, X-Games 3D:The Movie, Post Grad, Beeswax, Earth Days, and Gotta Dance. Larry talks with KPCC film critics Andy Klein of Brand X, Jean Oppenheimer of Village Voice Media, and Wade Major of boxoffice.com about the films and career of director Quentin Tarantino.

FilmWeek for August 14, 2009

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:59:59 -0800

Discussion and reviews of District 9, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Ponyo, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Spread, Bandslam, It Might Get Loud, Flame&Citron, and Grace, among others. Then, in light of news that Steven Spielberg will remake the Jimmy Stewart classic film, “Harvey," we open the phones to ask, Which films should NOT be re-made?

FilmWeek for August 7, 2009

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:17:57 -0800

Reviews of G.I. Joe, Rise of the Cobra, Julie & Julia, Cold Souls, Paper Heart, Fragments, A Woman in Berlin and more. Plus, the deaths of screenwriter Bud Schulberg and writer/director John Hughes.

FilmWeek for July 31, 2009

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:13:24 -0800

Larry talks with the KPCC film critics about all the week's new film releases including Funny People, Adam, and Thirst among others. Then, Larry is joined by filmmaker Werner Herzog about his new book, “Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo," and about his movie-making career.

FilmWeek for July 24, 2009

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:06:47 -0800

Reviews of all the week's new film releases including The Ugly Truth, G-Force, Orphan, and Shrink among others. And, the new film, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, and the DocuWeeks theatrical showcase.

FilmWeek for July 17, 2009

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:04:29 -0800

Reviews of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, (500) Days of Summer, Tony Manero, Death In Love, Homecoming, The Poker House, Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America, and The Queen and I; I would definitely go to the movies if _____ directed/starred in/wrote it...

FilmWeek for July 10, 2009

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:10:42 -0800

Reviews of Bruno, I Love You Beth Cooper, Blood: The Last Vampire, Weather Girl, Soul Power, An Unlikely Weapon, and Herb and Dorothy; James Gavin on the life and times of Lena Horne.