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  • The Rundown

Lady Gaga Goes Method for House of Gucci; See Licorice Pizza in 70mm; MoviePass Resurrected?

Lady Gaga stayed in character (and accent) throughout the House of Gucci production; Licorice Pizza is coming this Thanksgiving in…

2 years ago
  • Movie News

The Academy Museum Celebrates Film’s History — and Survival

It's a rough time for film, but reinforcements arrive today: Los Angeles' Academy Museum opens it doors with plans to celebrate…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Summertime Director Carlos López Estrada Listens to the Voices of His City

The boldness of Blindspotting, an electric dramedy exploring race and gentrification in Oakland, gained director Carlos López Estrada considerable industry…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Cecil Hotel Director Wants Viewers to Stop Cyberbullying People From the Series

The director of Netflix's popular docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel wants viewers to stop cyberbullying people…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Morbid: Everything You Need to Know About the Man Falsely Accused of Killing Elisa Lam

The story of how death-metal musician Morbid got involved in the Elisa Lam case is a cautionary tale on what…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Night Stalker Richard Ramirez and the Cecil Hotel: Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Richard Ramirez, a.k.a. the Night Stalker, had a grim habit of breaking into people's homes in the middle of the…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Who Was Jack Unterweger, the Austrian Serial Killer in Netflix’s Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel?

Jack Unterweger is only briefly mentioned in Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, the four-part docuseries that…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

How It Ends Follows L.A.’s Overcomplicated Class on the Last Day of Human Existence

How It Ends won me over as soon as Nick Kroll's character referred to a stockpile of marijuana as "the…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

L.A.’s Kobe Bryant Murals Resonate in Sincerely, Los Angeles Doc Trailer

"When Superman dies, it's like, who else do you look up to?" asks one of the subjects of director Patrick…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Night Stalker Richard Ramirez: 13 Chilling Details From Netflix’s Docuseries

Night Stalker, the new Netflix docuseries bearing the nickname of one of California’s most notorious serial killers spares not a…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

The 40 Best Film Schools In The U.S. and Canada 2019

Let's start our list of the best film schools in the U.S. and Canada with an anecdote about the importance…

5 years ago
  • Movie News

Festival Beat: Timeless Titles Grow Old But Never Die at TCM Classic Film Festival 2019

Repertory cinema is alive and well across the world, and the TCM Classic Film Festival is the zenith of repertory…

5 years ago
  • Spring 2019

Newport Beach Film Festival 2019: SoCal’s Center for Cinema Celebration Turns the Big 2-0 This Year

If the Newport Beach Film Festival could be described in a phrase, "Think globally, act locally" might be it. Showcasing…

5 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2019: Big Cities

"The film business as we know it is never going back to Los Angeles,” director Joe Carnahan reportedly said during…

5 years ago
  • Festivals

Exclusive Preview: New Media Film Festival 2018 to Offer Emmy Consultation and Broadcasting

An all-encompassing media art showcase, New Media Film Festival (NMFF) continues to carve its own niche as it celebrates its…

6 years ago
  • Annual Lists

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2018: Big Cities

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose where to find your film family. They’re the PAs you’ll be…

6 years ago
  • Summer 2017

LA Femme International Film Festival 2017: An Oral History of a "By Women, For Everyone" Festival

The idea for LA Femme International Film Festival, for women directors, writers and producers, came to me in 2004 as…

7 years ago
  • Festivals

Three’s Company: A Busy Weekend Of L.A. Film Fests Highlights The City’s Multiculturalism and Fierce Independence

Repertoire theaters, star-studded evenings, plenty of multiplexes and art houses theaters, as well as a never-ending stream of festivals make…

7 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: All Nighter Crams 35 Locations Into A 22-Day Shoot to Capture All of L.A. (Exclusive BTS Photos)

The biggest trick we had to pull off in making All Nighter was telling a story that takes place as…

7 years ago
  • Best Of

Interactive Map: Explore the Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker in 2017

Take a virtual tour of our 26 favorite filmmaking cities in North America on our interactive map of the Best…

7 years ago
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  • Winter 2017

The Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker 2017

As an independent moviemaker, your life tends to be a mobile one. You’re forever in search of the perfect landscapes,…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

The Camera is a Dancer: DP Linus Sandgren Walks Us Through How He and Damien Chazelle Shot La La Land

Colors pop like old-fashioned jelly beans in La La Land, Damien Chazelle's musical about struggling artists Mia (Emma Stone) and…

7 years ago
  • Summer 2016

The Hook-Up: The Unique, NSFW-ish Research Process Behind Amateur Night

Lisa Addario and I met in college and decided to become partners, first in writing, then in sex, then in…

8 years ago
  • Directing

Indie Diaries: Jeff Grace, Riding Festival Momentum in Los Angeles

For the “Film School, Film Careers” special in our upcoming Summer 2016 issue, we asked three indie moviemakers to chronicle…

8 years ago