Topic: Los Angeles

Jackson rehearsal footage nixed for doctor's trial

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Raw film footage of Michael Jackson rehearsing a planned concert in the days before his death will not be shown to the jury in the upcoming trial of his personal doctor, a Los Angeles judge ruled on Monday.Prosecutors ...

Financial meltdown film wins documentary Oscar

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Inside Job," a film blaming financial institutions for triggering the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, won the Academy Award for best documentary on Sunday.The prize went to director/producer Charles Ferguson, who recently won the documentary prize ...
I am trying to cover as many different kinds of films in this survey as I possibly can. The International Documentary Association is currently holding their annual Docuweeks festival in New York and Los Angeles. As an absolute lover of documentaries I?m ...

A Necessary Ruin

Of my seven panels at Dwell on Design this weekend, one that I am really happy to be doing is a screening of filmmaker Evan Mather's 2009 documentary A Necessary Ruin. The half-hour documentary chronicles the rise and startlingly quick decay of ...

Ask American Profile

Q Can you tell me what former American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee has been doing? In January, McPhee released Unbroken, the follow-up to her successful 2007 self-titled album. Q I am curious about what happened to Dean Butler, who played Almanzo Wilder ...

"Glee", "CSI" among TV shows "with a conscience"

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The wheelchair episode of musical comedy "Glee" and a "CSI" program tackling race and prejudice in the police were among eight shows named on Wednesday as examples of "television with a conscience".The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ...

"Anvil" rocks film documentary awards

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock on, Anvil. The aging band that never tasted music stardom found a measure of Hollywood fame on Friday when "Anvil, The Story of Anvil" won two film awards, including best documentary, from a key group of moviemakers.The ...

Fix

It takes the entire day to cruise the strips and slums of Los Angeles in this flashy but plodding road trip-cum-redemption thriller. Milo (Ruspoli) holds the camera for this faux documentary on his druggie brother, Leo (Andrews), who's saying goodbye to his ...

DiCaprio does climate change

Those who have reached the end of the line as far as doom-laden documentaries about global warming are concerned are unlikely to have their minds changed by Leonardo DiCaprio and his narration of this polished but essentially rather dull follow-up to Al ...