In this week’s Screen Talk, Indiewire’s Eric Kohn and I cover the changes at the Los Angeles Film Festival, which has taken a dramatic turn by pitching its programming to a younger, multi-cultural audience. But will Angelenos come?
Read: LA Film Festival Picks a Closing Night, 8 Films to See
I saw new opener “Jurassic World,” which will kill at the box office this weekend; we debate the virtues of Fox Searchlight’s Sundance-winning four-hankie “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” while we both admire next weekend’s silent Ukrainian drama “The Tribe.”
Read: Jesse Andrews Learned How to Write screenplays with ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’
(BTW, per our debate in the podcast, Steven Spielberg is 68.)
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