This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
Passion utilizes its parent film’s narrative of corporate betrayal as mere framework for which De Palma to dress in all kinds of lustrous detail.
Phoned-in portent and feigned profundity form the basis of each of the seven interlocking narratives that comprise Cloud Atlas.
Frances Ha feels like an unusually intimate, personal piece, a return to Noah Baumbach’s early, more naïvely optimistic phase.
There’s so much more to love here, and even more to digest further.
The most difficult thing to conceptualize about marginalization is the fact that the exclusion simply doesn’t end.
There’s a palpable sense of both anger and sympathy on the part of Wang for the plight of his subjects.
What very good company Robert Redford keeps indeed.
The film is a wry tribute to the idealistic kids forced to follow in some mighty big footsteps.
Can Malick’s dream-like film grammar resonate when set in the modern world?
This is a father-son love story, and it’s caustic, complex, and utterly compelling.
The global economic maelstrom found a way to creep its way into the 47th edition of the festival—but only for a moment.
Every year, a lovely spa town awakens from its long sleep to welcome hundreds of mostly young, backpack-toting film enthusiasts.
The festival provides no real leitmotif or focus, leaving plenty of room for personal interpretation, and sometimes wonder.
Human rights activist David Kato’s dynamic experience haunts much of Call Me Kuchu.
On the Edge’s Badia isn’t a personable or empathetic character, but as the driving force of the story, her behavior is a fascinating display.
Sister is another meditation on the viewpoint of children in an alienating adult world.
Color of the Ocean is sincere, well-crafted, and nice to look at—it just isn’t especially vital.
George Gage’s Bidder 70 is a highly inspirational account of American climate activist Tim DeChristopher.
Will Egypt’s democracy, regardless of which constitutional model it’s styled after, be carried out to the end?
At this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival, there are a few core themes that bind together a number of the films.