FilmWeek

KPCC critics Lael Loewenstein and Henry Sheehan review the week's releases, including Toy Story 3, Jonah Hex, Cyrus, Anton Chekhov's The Duel, I Am Love, 8: The Mormon Proposition and Stonewall Uprising. Later, Larry talks with the director of Toy Story 3.

Larry Mantle and critics Andy Klein of Brand X and Wade Major of boxoffice.com discuss the week’s new film releases including The A Team, The Karate Kid, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, and Winter’s Bone, among others. Later, Larry Mantle sits down with Director Debra Granick and actress Jennifer Lawrence to discuss their new film, Winter’s Bone, which portrays the trials and tribulations of a young woman growing up deep in the Ozark mountains. The film was the recipient of the both the Grand Jury Prize and the Screenwriting award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Larry Mantle and KPCC FilmWeek Critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor, and Charles Solomon animation critic for amazon.com and animation historian, join Larry to discuss this week’s new film releases including Get Him To The Greek, Splice, Marmaduke, Ondine, Perrier’s Bounty, John Rabe, and Micmacs, among others.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today and Lael Loewenstein of Variety discuss the week’s film openings including Sex And The City 2, and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, among others. Lael and Claudia will also discuss the uptick in films made for women in light of the opening of Sex And The City 2. Are these films done well for women? Are they usually any good? What is your favorite “chick flick?” What type of women’s movies do you like? Later, John Rabe on John Rabe.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Jean Oppenheimer, Andy Klein of Brand X and Charles Solomon animation critic and historian for amazon.com, discuss the week’s new film releases including Shrek Forever After, MacGruber, Solitary Man, Holy Rollers, Kites, Looking For Eric, The Best Worst Movie, The Oath, and The Father Of My Children among others. Later, this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, and Wade Major of boxoffice.com discuss the week’s new film releases including Robin Hood, Letters to Juliet, Just Wright, Princess Kaiulani, The Complete Metropolis, and The Thorn in the Heart. Later, the business backstage at Cannes, and the fine art of preserving classic films.

Larry talks with KPCC film critics Jean Oppenheimer and Henry Sheehan about the week’s new movie releases including Iron Man 2, Mother And Child, Babies, The Human Centipede, Casino Jack And The United States of Money, Behind The Burly Q, OSS 117: Lost In Rio, Mercy, and The Lightkeepers. When DreamWorks was founded in 1994, it was the first new Hollywood studio in 60 years. Headed by director Steven Spielberg, music mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, and ex-Disney executive David Geffen, the company set out to build a media empire dedicated to talent and where employees didn't have titles. DreamWorks had its share of successes – American Beauty, Gladiator, Shrek. But it also had numerous, costly failures, and by 2005 the studio was sold to Paramount. In The Men Who Would Be King, reporter Nicole LaPorte tells the story of the company's flare-ups and failed ambitions.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Wade Major of boxoffice.com and Lael Loewenstein of Variety discuss the films opening this week including A Nightmare on Elm Street, Furry Vengeance, Please Give, Harry Brown, The Good Heart, The Good, The Bad, And The Weird, Dirty Hands, and Timer. TGI-FilmWeek! Later, he’s worked with Elvis and Sinatra and been counselor and confidante to celebrities and politicians. Now, the veteran Hollywood film producer and deal maker Jerry Weintraub has a new memoir, co-written with Vanity Fair Editor Rich Cohen. Part how-to guide, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man, is packed with entertaining stories Weintraub’s probably been telling at cocktail parties for years. The book chronicles his rise from the Bronx, to the hills of Hollywood, and his crowning hits as movie producer, from Robert Altman’s Nashville, to Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen. Larry talks with Weintraub about his remarkable life and career, marked by luck, love and improvisation.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Jean Oppenheimer, Andy Klein of Brand X and Charles Solomon, animation historian and critic for amazon.com discuss the week’s new releases including The Losers, The Back-Up Plan, Oceans, The City Of Your Final Destination, Paper Man, No One Knows About Persian Cats, and Sita Sings The Blues. TGI-FilmWeek! You might know her best as Norma Desmond, Starlett O’Hara or Eunice Higgins, but those ladies have long since left the stage. Their creator, Carol Burnett, pulls back the curtain on the hilarious and frustrating moments in her acting career, and some of the personal trials and triumphs she encountered along the way in her book This Time Together. Burnett joins fellow Hollywood High School alum Larry to reminisce.

Larry Mantle and KPCC film critics Jean Oppenheimer and Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com discuss the week’s new film releases including The Joneses, Death At A Funeral, Kick Ass, Handsome Harry, The Secret In Their Eyes, Who Do You Love, The Perfect Game, Dancing Across Borders and The Cartel. Later, Larry talks with Mike Kaplan about classic movie poster art and the free exhibition The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943, which runs through April 25 in the Grand Lobby Gallery of the Academy's headquarters in Beverly Hills.