The Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking has announced the five nominees for its fourth annual Cinema Eye Heterodox Award, sponsored by Filmmaker Magazine. The Cinema Eye Heterodox Award honors ...

Let's think about 1980. It was the year that William Friedkin's Cruising was released to widespread critical derision, a film with the capacity to, in the words of its director, "scare ...

Guest host Frank Stoltze and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein, Henry Sheehan and Claudia Puig review this week's releases, including The Best Offer, Interior. Leather Bar., Paranormal Activity: The ...

It's really hard to describe what INTERIOR LEATHER BAR really is mainly because it doesn't succeed on any level of filmmaker. At a runtime of only 60 minutes, it is definitely a short film but there's ...

William Friedkin‘s “Cruising” has invited scrutiny and speculation throughout its life: During the shooting of the thriller — which starred Al Pacino as a straight NYPD cop who goes undercover in the ...

Built upon a movie-history footnote, “Interior. Leather Bar.” is an hourlong provocation from directors James Franco and Travis Mathews — a cheerfully unsettling exploration of mainstream ...

Documentary about the remaking of a 1980 cult film (1:00). Not rated: Graphic nudity, sexuality. IFC. Anybody who already considers James Franco pretentious or narcissistic from his “edgy” art films, ...

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. The first weekend of 2014 will usher in some new specialty releases and see the expansion of some high-profile late-2013 rollouts. Interior. Leather Bar., ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. First off, the title of James Franco’s latest passion project, Interior. Leather Bar, is intended to call to mind the instructions ...