LOS ANGELES — On a hot summer evening, Miles Villalon lined up outside the New Beverly Cinema, hours before showtime. The audience awaits the premiere screening of the film “Biosphere,” Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at the Eagle Theatre at Vidiots Foundation in Los Angeles. But I think there’s a lot less communal connection” said Dr. Michael Hook, who attended a …
The Argentina-born French director Gaspar Noé often is described as a polarizing filmmaker, but never before has he had two movies in American theaters in the same month, both of which seem to arise from vastly different poles of artistic sensibility and experience. As shot by Noé’s longtime cinematographer, Benoît Debie, both “Vortex” and “Lux Aeterna” make extensive use of …
The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then again, Malaysian-Chinese filmmaker Sam Quah’s Thailand-set yarn — a remake of the Indian noir drama “Drishyam” — is ultimately a loopy, stylized celebration of the kinds of byzantine, trap-laden suspensers that have delighted audiences from “The Purloined Letter” through Hitchcock’s wronged-man oeuvre and the career of …
The exterior of the Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall in Beverly Hills on Dec. 31, 2019. “You knew something was going to come,” Laemmle said, “either economically or from a jurisdictional standpoint, that someone was going to say, ‘Shut it down.’” Laemmle’s Royal in West L.A. on July 15, 2019. “You have people coming in but they’re definitely not …
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