Producing a documentary on a deceased subject can be a tricky thing. Unless you're a filmmaker covering some huge cultural icon featured in a wealth of undiscovered archival footage, it can be tough to construc...
In late 2003, this writer and another friend spent a few weeks doing some old-school serious reporting and digging to write a feature on the death of L.A. indie-songwriter Elliott Smith. Half the work isn't eve...
Details have arrived on the soundtrack to Jason Reitman's humanist, downsizing dramedy, "Up In The Air," that stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and a startlingly good Anna Kendrick.We already mentioned much of...
So a few weeks we were given the teaser-trailer version of Jason Reitman's "Up In The Air," let's call it the soulful version. Now arrives the theatrical trailer which is essentially, the mainstream, catch-the-...
We're fans of director/artist/graphic designer Mike Mills.In 2005 his underrated indie flick "Thumbsucker" achieved two important things (one of them almost unfathomable): it introduced most of us to the excell...
There's another new gorgeous trailer for "Revolutionary Road" courtesy of Variety and instead of Nina Simone ("Wild Is The Wind" in the original trailer), this time there's a modern throwback singer soundtracki...
Paul Thomas Anderson directed a video for Radiohead's "We Suck Young Blood," from 2003's Hail To The Thief? Jigga what? This we'd never heard, but doing random research for the Michel Gondry video piece we fell...
Remember that "Largo" film we blogged about back in the day - a simple black-and-white performance-based documentary featuring mainstays of the L.A. hipster club like Fiona Apple, Jon Brion, Aimee Mann, my bea...