Robert Abele
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 13
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- Sep 25, 2026
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Review: The stuff of buildings and bridges is grist for something deeper in 'The History of Concrete' (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Across its three-season run on HBO, John Wilson’s funny, observant docuseries-cum-tutorial “How to With John Wilson” played like the urban travelogue a complex metropolis such as New York was meant to inspire. Wilson, an anxiously witty host, turned his adventures (covering furniture, mastering small talk, appreciating wine) into fraught mini-ep
Review: The vitality of a queer filmmaking pioneer comes to life in 'Barbara Forever' (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Like the Marines, great artists don’t really die, they just endure through new waves of admirers. That sense of a body of art, one with an endless capacity to exist sensually and meaningfully, is the powerful message of “Barbara Forever,” Brydie O’Connor’s pulsating documentary ode to the ceaseless drive of trailblazing lesbian filmmaker Barbara
Review: 'Hope' imports big-budget monster pandemonium from South Korea (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred Across the history of movies, filmgoers have occasionally felt the rush of a new kineticism breaking free of prior standards, thanks to the Kurosawas, Friedkins, Spielbergs, Camerons and Millers of the world who’ve expanded the form. Now comes nerve-jangling Korean director Na Hong-jin, long a revered force in genre cinema thanks to “The Yellow
The 33 best L.A. crime movies, ranked (opens the original)
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Why do Los Angeles and crime go so well together on screen? A paradise this sunny must be hiding something dark and not quite on the up and up. The earliest noir writers like Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain noticed this; so many of the classic pulp novels are L.A. stories. Hollywood added another layer of pretending: a place where killer instincts are honed. Add to it Los Angeles’ real-life history of municipal corruption and you begin to wonder why every crime film isn’t set here. Our list o
Review: A notorious disaster still possesses its filmmaker in 'Boorman and the Devil' (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred After watching the enjoyable birth-of-a-disaster documentary “Boorman and the Devil,” about the ill-fated gestation of John Boorman’s “Exorcist II: The Heretic,” you’ll surely marvel that anyone thought the mysterious film would satisfy moviegoers’ hunger for second helpings of date-night Satanism. David Kittredge’s deeply researched, lightning-
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