LA Weekly Articles

Philippe Garnier on Cannes 2009, in the LA Weekly: "By this time, news should be out everywhere that Cannes this year was a special vintage. Not only did most of the selected 'usual suspects' outdo themselves in big and unexpected ways — or, like Alain Resnais, find new resources and verve which, frankly, we didn’t know they had in them — but it is also [...]

J. Hoberman in The Village Voice: "All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots. "Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late [...]

Omar Sharif as Dr. Zhivago, Julie Christie as Lara in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (top); Julie Christie as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's and Gordon Pinsent as her husband in Sarah Polley's Away from Her (bottom).   Ella Taylor on Julie Christie in the LA Weekly: "Spend half an hour with Christie, and you'll experience her ambivalence about Hollywood and almost everything else. Plainly shy [...]