Michael Powell

Barack Obama's reaction to John McCain's playing of the race-card-allegation card and of the Moses card commands attention today in the mainstream, estuary and side-trickle media. Here, we see Obama insisting on the term cynical rather than racial,...

The Los Angeles Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats festival that showcases the historic movie palaces on Broadway in downtown L.A. returns this Wednesday with Peter Bogdanovich's 1973 comedy "Paper Moon."...

A trio of Los Angeles designers that defies categorization and eschews trends duly rises from under the radar....

Ian Birnie, who for the last 14 years was director of LACMA's film department, is now out of a job. For his farewell program, "Celebrating Classic Cinema: Curator and Audience Favorites," Birnie has picked an eclectic collection of movies and......

“Rio” took me and most critics utterly by surprise. Blue Sky Studios has been churning out inferior “Ice Age” sequels for so long I didn't think they had something this sweet, pretty and fun in them. Inspired voice casting, great...

When Martin Scorsese accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday's Golden Globe Awards ceremony, he evoked the words of William Faulkner: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." He later said in his speech, "None of us......

Below are some thoughts about "Lighthouse," Tuesday's episode of "Lost." UPDATE: I've posted some further thoughts on Season 6 of "Lost," based on an exchange I had with a commenter named Robin, here. It was inevitable, I guess, that the Island of Bad...

Oscar-nominated director David Fincher ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Social Network") will have an extended conversation at Film Independent at LACMA's "An Evening with David Fincher" Thursday at the Loe S. Bing Theater. The program is to...

Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky often tells interviewers that "The Red Shoes" (1948) is the one film comparable to his own "Black Swan." How modest of him! Aronofsky was right to say that the classic by British masters Michael Powell and Emeric...

Joel and Ethan Coen just made Academy Award history with their tandem nomination for best director for "No Country for Old Men." The siblings are the first brother directing team to be nominated in that category. And if they win, they will become the...

Jack Cardiff, the British cinematographer who won an Academy Award for his stunning color work on the 1947 drama "Black Narcissus" and later became an Oscar-nominated director, has died. He was 94. Cardiff, who as a cinematographer was known as a pioneer...

Voyeurism has long proved a fitting topic for the movies, most memorably in Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom." "Alone With Her," a new twist on that theme, utilizes the latest technology to tell its tale. Immediately,...