FilmWeek

FilmWeek: 'Venom: The Last Dance,' 'Conclave,' 'Memoir of a Snail,' and More Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Peter Rainer, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon Venom: The Last Dance Conclave Memoir of a Snail  Martha My Name is Alfred Hitchcock Magpie Carville: Winning is Everything, Stupid Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) The Remarkable Life of Ibelin Rule of Two Walls The Sacrifice (1986)

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Amy Nicholson and Manuel Betancourt review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on-demand platforms. Smile 2 Wide Release  Anora In Select Theaters Rumors In Select Theaters  Exhibiting Forgiveness In Select Theaters  Woman of the Hour In Select Theaters and Streaming on Netflix  Goodrich Laemmle Newhall [Santa Clarita] and Laemmle Town Center 5 [Encino] Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan And Sara Streaming on Hulu  MadS In Select Theaters | Streaming on Shudder The Body Politic Laemmle NoHo 7 | Streaming on PBS  Bookworm In Select Theaters | VOD  

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Tim Cogshell, Wade Major, and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms. Piece by Piece Wide Release The Apprentice Wide Release My Hero Academia: You’re Next Wide Release We Live In Time In Select Theaters | Expands to Wide Release October 18th Last of the Sea Women Laemmle NoHo 7 [North Hollywood] | Streaming on Apple TV+ Food and Country  Laemmle Royal [West LA] Nurse Unseen Laemmle Glendale In Her Place Streaming on Netflix | In Select Theaters Dusty & Stone Laemmle Monica Film Center [Santa Monica] | Laemmle Royal [West LA] Lonely Planet Streaming on Netflix Mad About the Boy: The Noël  Coward Story In Select Theaters & VOD Terrifier 3 In Select Theaters Caddo Lake Streaming on Max

Referred to by Vulture as a box office “Mega Flop(olis),” Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-long project didn’t have an ideal opening, making $4,000,000 domestically across 1,854 theaters. Coppola, now 85 years old, hasn’t gotten much love from audiences for the film, although one sequence has become the subject of many online memes. Megalopolis also arrives at a time when advertisements for the 94-year-old Clint Eastwood’s new film, Juror #2, are set to release in November. Both filmmakers have extensive filmographies, including some hits and misses, but are their new projects resonating as much as prior works? How are they faring compared to longtime auteurs like Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann? We talk to FilmWeek critics Tim Cogshell and Wade Major about whether these filmmakers are still resonating with audiences, and what challenges they face with making films in their twilight years.

 Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis. The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis’ directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The two Day-Lewises co-wrote the film. Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film “Phantom Thread,” the 67-year-old said he was quitting acting. Given Day-Lewis’s decades-long filmography, and 3 Academy Awards to his name, we thought it’d be good to look back at his legacy to help contextualize how significant his contributions have been.    With files from the Associated Press  

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Lael Loewenstein and Claudia Puig review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.   Joker:Folie a Deux Wide Release The Outrun In Select Theaters Blink In Select Theaters Stripped For Parts: American Journalism On The Brink Laemmle Royal [West LA]  Daytime Revolution In Select Theaters One Night Only on October 9th [Wednesday] The Problem with People Laemmle Royal [Sawtelle] White Bird  In Select Theaters Guests:

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Charles Solomon, Christy Lemire and Andy Klein review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms. Megalopolis  Wide Release The Wild Robot Wide Release Saturday Night AMC Burbank 16 + AMC Burbank Town Center 6 | Expands October 11th  Lee In Select Theaters  Sleep Alamo Drafthouse [DTLA] + Available on VOD Amber Alert Laemmle Royal [West LA] Rez Bell Streaming on Netflix Girls Will Be Girls Landmark’s Nuart Theatre [West LA] | Expands October 4th to Laemmle Glendale [Glendale]  All Shall Be Well Laemmle Royal [West LA] Haunted Heart Laemmle Monica Center [Santa Monica] + Available on VOD House of Spoils Streaming on Amazon Prime Art Dealers Lumiere Music Hall + VOD on Oct. 1

Having done film criticism for decades, it was around the early points of the COVID-19 pandemic that film critic and historian Carrie Rickey decided to take up the task of outlining the life of beloved director, Agnes Varda. In A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda, Rickey looks at not just Varda’s filmography, but also how she became such a public-facing individual who embodied the politics she preached in interviews and on the big screen. Writing about the work that went into making great films like Cleo from 5 to 7, how she became a notable part of France’s feminist movement, and the friendships that made her known as a beloved socialite. So for this week’s FilmWeek feature, we speak to film critic and historian Carrie Rickey about her new book, A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda.

Passing the Mantle is a new podcast from LAist Studios about family, curiosity and the things that change — and stay the same — across generations. In this episode, Larry and Desmond talk about how perceptions of and conversations around interracial relationships have changed since Larry was growing up in the ’60s… for better, and for worse. Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live.

Although infrequent movie watchers might be most familiar with filmmaker Brian De Palma’s Scarface and Mission Impossible, his most prolific era actually came between 1972-1981, which is what filmmaker and book author Laurent Bouzereau refers to as “The De Palma Decade” in his new book of the same name. Beginning with De Palma’s 1972 film Sisters, and ending with his 1981 film Blow Out, Bouzereau break down the iconic filmmaker’s themes and thought process when developing each work within this decade. For this week’s FilmWeek feature, we’ll sit down with Laurent Bouzereau, author of the new book “The De Palma Decade: Redefining Cinema with Doubles, Voyeurs, and Psychic Teens,” and get into how this pioneer of New Hollywood cinema made his mark.