At this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, there are a few core themes that bind together a number of the films.
Game Change lives in the reaction shot: in capturing the eyes of mute staffers on the sidelines witnessing the clashes of personality.
As director, she’s asking herself to be more than the vengeance monster of “Paparazzi” or the fame monster of “Bad Romance” or the mother monster of “Born This Way.”
A number of films at this year’s festival hover in the realm of science fiction.
One city, one day. That Aristotelian unity is an alluring structure for a film.
Miss Bala wears on its sleeve that its resilient heroine represents the Mexican body politic.
It would certainly be easy enough to capture this stutter-step courtship by filming its gorgeous leads against gorgeous Swedish backdrops and calling it a day.
The representation of Cuba in cinema is exceptionally difficult to separate from its political context.
Stéphane Lafleur does nothing to disavow me of the notion that Canada is some kind of depressing anomic frozen wasteland.
Fatima Buntinx carries Las Malas Intenciones on her diminutive shoulders, and her performance treads a fine line.
The whole production is visually stunning, and there’s an illicit energy that comes from putting Gaga-as-Magdalene center stage.
The primary tactic in Snyder’s repertoire is decontextualization.
Campanella gives voice to the idea that under the junta and under the dictator, every act must become political.
A Lady Gaga video serves as far more than a simple visual interpretation of a song.
As the new video for “All of the Lights” begins, you might doubt for a moment that you’re watching a Hype Williams clip.
Terriers recalls an earlier tradition of crime story.
“Runaway” is less of a video for the track of the same name than it is a film designed to be visual accompaniment to the whole of the Fantasy album.
What do Fidel Castro, Sigmund Freud and Rock Hudson have in common?
If this isn’t the definition of “peak Gaga,” then I don’t know what is.
Viewers and critics alike feel very, very strongly about the endings to their favorite shows.