Los Angeles Film Festival 2009 Articles

2009 Los Angeles Film Festival Awards 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival: June 18-28   Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace's debut feature Wah do dem (top) follows a man whose girlfriend has dumped him right before he goes off on a Caribbean cruise. Juan Carlos Rulfo and Carlos Hagerman's Those Who Remain (middle) portrays the effects of Mexican emigration to the United States on those family [...]

Eight time world-champion freediver Mandy Rae Cruickshank and humpback whale friend in The Cove (top); The Cove by Louie Psihoyos (2nd from top); United Red Army by Koji Wakamatsu (2nd from bottom); "Fortress: Pinback" by Elliot Jokelson (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival, Sunday, June 28, highlights: Louie Psihoyos' documentary The Cove (Majestic Crest, 1 pm), the Audience Award winner at Sundance 2009, delves into the [...]

Shu Hin, Ryu Hin in Panda Diary (top); Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews in Hot Rods to Hell (middle); ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival, Saturday, June 27, highlights: A second screening of Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls (The Regent, 1:30 pm), starring Paul Giamatti as a man whose soul is smuggled into Russia. Narrated by the panda Shu Hin, Tadashi Mori's documentary [...]

Unmade Beds (top); Paul Giamatti in Cold Souls (2nd from top); Autumn (2nd from bottom); ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival, Thu., June 25, highlights: Alexis dos Santos' Unmade Beds (Landmark 4, 2:30 pm) chronicles the emotional, romantic, and sexual entanglements of a group of young denizens of London's East End. In the cast: Déborah François, Fernando Tielve, Michiel Huisman, Iddo [...]