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FilmWeek LAist 89.3 | Southern California Public Radio
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FilmWeek on AirTalk, hosted by Larry Mantle, is a one-hour weekly segment devoted to films. It offers reviews of the week's new movies, interviews with filmmakers, and discussions on various aspects of the industry.
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HTLA Presents: Revival House: Part 8 - Movies Under — And Among — The Stars At Hollywood Forever
Go back to the movies with us!
It's heating up in the city, so Revival House continues with a classic of spring and summertime in L.A. — a film at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Run by Cinespia, you can picnic and catch a revival film on the iconic grassy knoll. What keeps people coming back year after year? What's the history of it all? Listen along to find out.
Learn more about the cemetery tour here: https://www.cemeterytour.com/
Find more about Cinespia here: https://cinespia.org/
Guests: Cemetery tour guide Karie Bible, Cinespia founder John Wyatt. -
FilmWeek: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ ‘The Last Stop in Yuma Country,’ ‘The Roundup: Punishment,’ And More
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Andy Klein review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.
“Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” Wide Release
“Poolman” In Select Theaters
“Summer Qamp” Laemmle Glendale [Glendale]
“Power” Laemmle Monica Film Center [Santa Monica]| Streaming On Netflix May 17
“The Last Stop in Yuma County” In Select Theaters
“Living With Leopards” Streaming On Netflix
“The Roundup Punishment” Wide Release
“Force Of Nature: The Dry 2” In Select Theaters
“The Image of You” VOD
“Lazareth” VOD
“Mother of the Bride” Streaming on Netflix
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Feature: ‘The Blues Brothers’ Book Brings Together What Made The 1980 Film A Classic
Saturday Night Live over the decades has served as a building block for comedians, using that platform as a way to get your name out there and eventually spin their popularity into other ventures. One of the earliest, and most iconic cases, being the American Classic that SNL alums Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi created with “The Blues Brothers.” A new book, by writer and journalist Daniel de Visé, gets into how Aykroyd and Belushi’s kinetic, comedic energy was spun into a just as entertaining production process. Along with the film’s influence on pop culture humor, it also shares how the film’s appreciate of blues music is best encapsulated by its soundtrack and appearances by Aretha Franklin and James Brown.
For this week’s FilmWeek feature, we talk to Daniel de Visé, author of “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the making of an American Film Classic” about what he was able to uncover from revisiting this film the captured a special moment in American film and comedy. -
Feature: Larry Talks To ‘I Saw The TV Glow’ Director Jane Schoenbrun & Actor Justice Smith
“I Saw The TV Glow,” the new film by second-time director Jane Schoenbrun, is a story they consider their most personal. The story follows the character Owen, over multiple decades of their own life, re-visiting their identity through the help of an old friend named Maddy. The film brings together elements of childhood nostalgia and horror in this fictional story of one kid who feels different from everyone else in this small town.
Today on FilmWeek, Larry sits down with the film's lead actor, Justice Smith, and its director Jane Schoenbrun, getting into the film’s exploration of identity and dysphoria.
‘I Saw The TV Glow’ is now in theaters, check your local listings. -
FilmWeek: ‘I Saw The TV Glow’ ‘The Idea of You,’ ‘Evil does Not Exist,’ And More
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Lael Loewenstein and Peter Rainer review this weekend’s new movie releases on streaming and on demand platforms.
“The Fall Guy” Wide Release
“Unfrosted” Streaming on Netflix
“I Saw The TV Glow” Wide Release
“Wildcat” AMC Century City 15 [Century City] | Vidiots [Eagle Rock] May 4th
“Blood in Blood Out (1993)” Streaming on Hulu
“Nowhere Special” Landmark Pasadena Playhouse [Pasadena] | Laemmle Royal [Sawtelle] | Laemmle Glendale [Glendale] | Regency Agoura Hills Stadium [Agoura Hills] | Laemmle Claremont [Claremont]
“The Idea of You” Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
“Evil Does Not Exist” Wide Release
“Who is Stan Smith?” Landmark Nuart Theater [Sawtelle] | Expands to Laemmle Town Center [Encino] | Laemmle Monica Film Center [Santa Monica] | Laemmle Glendale [Glendale] May 10 -
FilmWeek: ‘Challengers,’ ‘Bad Faith,’ ‘Humane,’ And More
Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Tim Cogshell and Andy Klein review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms:
“Challengers” Wide Release
“Boy Kills World” Wide Release
“Egoist” Wide Release
“Bad Faith” VOD
“Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story” Laemmle Glendale [Glendale] April 26th | Streaming on PBS May 13
“Uncropped” Laemmle Royal [Sawtelle] on April
“Little Empty Boxes” Laemmle Monica [Santa Monica] April 26 | Laemmle Royal [Sawtelle] April 28
“Humane” The Alamo Drafthouse [DTLA] April 26th
“ALAM” VOD
“Infested” Streaming on Shudder
Customer Reviews
Love the show most of the time but…
I cannot listen when Andy Klein is on. He gives away way too much plot. He’s not reviewing movies…he’s ruining them for people that haven’t seen them.
Excellent show, but adding junk to my feed
I hate to hit Filmweek with a 3-star rating, as I love the show and look forward to it every week. I dinged the 2 stars because HTLA or whatever is sneaking their show into my feed! One “preview” episode is ok, and a lot of podcasts do this. But SEVEN episodes of a show that’s only tangentially related to the podcast I signed up for? No thank you. Bad LAIST. Bad.
Love that Andy is still hanging in there
If it weren’t for Andy I’m not sure I would still be tuning in. What happened to the critics who actually know how to dissect a movie based on the structure, writing etc. and relate to older films? Instead we get a blow by blow of the story most of the time or an opinion on like or dislike of an actor.