Los Angeles Film Festival 2009 Articles

Zero Bridge (top); I Sell the Dead (middle); Weather Girl (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival highlights on Wed., June 24: John Maringouin’s Big River Man, about a middle-aged, pot-bellied Slovenian who decides to swim the length (or rather, the width) of the Amazon River, will have its second screening at the Landmark 8 at 2:15 pm. The panel "Poolside Chat: Reel Life LA" (W Los [...]

Carmen Meets Borat (top); 35 Shots of Rum (middle); Johnny Depp, Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival, Tuesday, June 23: In Mercedes Stalenhoef’s Carmen Meets Borat (The Regent, 2 pm), a Romanian teenager dreams of going to Spain to escape the backwards town in which she lives. (The place is so backwards that she’s called "granny" because she remains unmarried at [...]

Jeff Daniels, Ryan Reynolds in Paper Man (top); Nahid Persson Sarvestani, Empress Farah Diba in The Queen and I (middle); AnneBruce Falconer in Danse Macabre (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival, Monday, June 21, highlights: Michele Mulroney and Kieran Mulroney’s Paper Man (Landmark 4, 2 pm) stars Jeff Daniels as a middle-aged teacher who goes through growing pains after befriending a teenage girl. Also in the [...]

Chad Allen, Eric Debets in Hollywood, je t’aime (top); Branson (middle); El General (bottom) Los Angeles Film Festival Sunday, June 21, highlights: One-hour "Coffee Talks" (W Los Angeles-Westwood Hotel, beginning at 11 am) with directors (Zach Helm, Todd Phillips, Jason Reitman), actors (Andre Royo, Melissa Leo, Freddy Rodriguez), composers (Harry Gregson-Williams, Lyle Workman, Christopher Young), and screenwriters (Nicholas Kazan, Robin Swicord, Alex Tse). Starring Eric [...]