Saturday, July 5

Royce Hall hosts Annie Awards, celebrates animation

The air was alive with animated chatter. All around, men were spruced up in pressed suits, and women dazzled in evening gowns as soundtracks from Disney films played in the background.The house lights dimmed, and the audience fell to a muted hush. Read more...

Photo: The 41st Annie Awards honored the last year’s best work in the field of animation in mediums that include both film and television. Disney’s “Frozen” won five out of its 10 nominated categories, including the award for best animated feature.


Academy Award nominations: Live-action short films

Every year, the works chosen for the three Academy Award categories for short films are among the most overlooked of the year’s Oscar selections. Aside from those usually coupled with Pixar films and the rare popular YouTube short, the majority of pieces go on unseen and unheard of by the general public. Read more...


Academy Award nominations: Animated short films

Every year, the works chosen for the three Academy Award categories for short films are among the most overlooked of the year’s Oscar selections. Aside from those usually coupled with Pixar films and the rare popular YouTube short, the majorityof pieces go on unseen and unheard of by the general public. Read more...


Movie Review: ‘Tim’s Vermeer’

Renowned 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, famous in the art world for creating photograph-like interior spaces, may have traced his work. At least that’s what is purported by the film “Tim’s Vermeer,” a documentary narrated by Penn Jillette and directed by Teller, both of famed comedy-magic duo Penn and Teller. Read more...


Out of Focus: The films of Anthony Mann come to Westwood

Modern cinema is indebted to Anthony Mann, even if few are aware of it. Working under strict production codes and B-picture budgets, Mann crafted a string of brilliant movies in the 1940s and 1950s that chronicled outsiders and anti-heroes long before they became popular. Read more...

Photo: “The Furies,” a Western starring Walter Huston and Barbara Stanwyck, is one of a selection of films by director Anthony Mann screening at UCLA’s Billy Wilder Theater from Jan. 31 to March 30. The series is titled “Dark City, Open Country: The Films of Anthony Mann.”


Movie Review: ‘Like Father, Like Son’

Riddled with the complexities of father-son relationships, the occasional laugh and a rather unfortunate revelation, “Like Father, Like Son” delicately depicts the story of two families that find themselves struggling with the notion of nature versus nurture. Read more...


Movie Review: ‘Stranger by the Lake’

“Stranger by the Lake” can be placed comfortably in opposition to last year’s Palme d’Or winner “Blue Is the Warmest Color.” While the latter found success in fitting lesbian lovers into a conventional romance, the former delights in the transgressive surrealism of its premise, taking cues from Hitchcock in its intertwining of love and death. Read more...



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