John Milius

Bud Browne, a onetime Venice Beach lifeguard who became known as "the father of surf films" after he began showing his 16-millimeter surf movies commercially up and down the California coast in the early 1950s, has died. He was 96. Browne died in his...

The Russians are coming to MGM! The Russians are coming to MGM! A creative team is set for a remake of John Milius' 1984 teen Cold War thriller, with Carl Ellsworth ("Red Eye") writing a script from a story by Jeremy Passmore. According to The Hollywood...

Today, Andrew Breitbart and David Ehrenstein ponder the plight of Tinseltown conservatives. Yesterday, they attempted to define Hollywood values. Wednesday, they discussed the role filmmakers should and do play in the domestic political debate, and...

Basil Poledouris, a composer whose sweeping score for the 1989 miniseries "Lonesome Dove" won him an Emmy and who became known for the bold orchestral sounds he brought to such films as "Conan the Barbarian" and "The Hunt for Red October," has died. He...

What do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...

It is the cusp of another summer, a bright morning with just enough breeze to carry the overripe scent of ocean, like food left on the table too long. The waves run small, which doesn't stop two dozen surfers from sharking around the lineup, dropping in...

After more than 20 years, before a cheering Cannes Film Festival crowd that gave him a 10-minute standing ovation -- and refused to stop until he raised his hands, cried "Enough! Enough!" and blew them a kiss -- Francis Coppola has received final...

1. THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman; 1973) 4 stars Altman's sly version of the late Raymond Chandler-Philip Marlowe novels, with Elliot Gould as a shaggy Marlowe somehow stranded in '70s L.A., trying to avenge buddy Terry (Jim Bouton) and untangle the...

When Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now Redux" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last May, the audience rose to their feet to engulf the filmmaker in a thunderous ovation. It was the strangest of vindications for a movie almost universally...

"Texas Rangers" reduces the turbulent post-Civil War history of the legendary law-and-order agency to the level of a routine shoot-'em-up, with the triteness of Scott Busby and Martin Copeland's script exceeded only by the flatness of Steve Miner's...

SEE CORRECTION APPENDED Screenwriter Tony Gayton is sitting alone in a corner of the Beverly Hills restaurant Maple Drive in a kind of veiled panic, looking as if he's just about to take his SATs and forgot to bring two No. 2 pencils. He's giving the...

Thursday July 18, 1996      Morgan Neville and Harry Pallenberg's irreverent, insightful "Shotgun Freeway" is surely one of the most ambitious documentaries on Los Angeles ever attempted, but it has two key drawbacks.      First, the role of Asians in...