Los Angeles Film Festival Articles

Ryan Gosling, Drive Also at the Los Angeles Film Festival 2011: the world premiere of Chris Weitz’s A Better Life and the North American premiere of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Palme d’Or competitor Drive, starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. Best known at this stage for handling a vampire (Robert Pattinson), a werewolf (Taylor Lautner), and the woman between (Kristen Stewart) in The Twilight Saga: New [...]

Ryan Reynolds, Green Lantern Martin Campbell’s Green Lantern, starring Ryan Reynolds, will have a special screening at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 16 at 10:30 p.m. Written by Greg Berlanti, Michael Green, Marc Guggenheim, and Michael Goldenberg, Green Lantern also features Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett and Tim Robbins. Though dedicated to the promotion of independent films, whether American or [...]

Katie Holmes, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark The Los Angeles Film Festival has announced Guillermo del Toro as Guest Director of its 2011 edition. Del Toro will also introduce the festival’s closing night film, Troy Nixey’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, on June 26 at Regal Cinemas Stadium 14 L.A. LIVE. Del Toro co-wrote the horror film’s screenplay with Matthew Robbins. Katie Holmes, [...]

Christopher Morris‘ Four Lions (top); Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey Smith’s Presumed Guilty (middle); Marc Landsman’s Thunder Soul (bottom) Christopher Morris‘ Four Lions, about a group of klutzy terrorists out to ruin the London Marathon, won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival. Four Lions features Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, and Nigel Lindsay, among others. Roberto Hernandez and Geoffrey [...]