Mollie Vandor

April 12, 2007

Where The White Boys Dance

By Mollie Vandor

Indie rock heroes The Killers played a sold-out show at the UCSB Events Center on Friday, causing crowds of people and copious quantities of confetti to descend upon the Thunderdome.

April 5, 2007

Keep Looking

By Mollie Vandor

Very few things are as disappointing as that moment when you realize that you have been duped by an artfully arranged trailer - a trailer that, in actuality, bears very little resemblance to the majority of the film you ...

March 8, 2007

Spring Forward

By Mollie Vandor

Like most good things, Spring Break is rare - it only comes once a year, and it only lasts for about a week.

March 1, 2007

Pushing the Envelope

By Mollie Vandor

"Are you over 21?" I had no idea why the portly guy who works the front desk at the desolate-looking building I'd been sent to with six tapes to send up on a satellite feed from Century City to Chicago was asking me whet...

February 22, 2007

Getting Dirty

By Mollie Vandor

"Mud" may be the single most depressing hour ever to take place at the HSSB Performing Arts Theater.

February 8, 2007

Red Carpet Redux

By Mollie Vandor

Eleven days is a long time for a film festival. Some might say too long. By the end of the second week of the 22nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, filmmakers, fans, press and paparazzi were all feeling ...

February 8, 2007

Calendar for 2/8/07

By Mollie Vandor

Thursday (2/8/07): People who liked "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers," should check out director Zhang Yimou's "Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles" at Campbell Hall tonight.

February 1, 2007

Ready, Set, Red Carpet

By Mollie Vandor

The air was thick with palpable excitement as the photographers and fans lined up alongside the red carpet at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's opening night last Thursday. The anticipation was as overwhelm...

February 1, 2007

Direct Address

By Mollie Vandor

Having grown up in Los Angeles, I don't get star-struck easily. That said, I can still be reduced to a nervous, sweaty-palmed wreck when in the presence of certain, very special people. Imagine my reaction when faced wit...

February 1, 2007

Cultural Production

By Mollie Vandor

It was a rainy Sunday morning when Graham King ("The Departed"), Jon Kilik ("Babel"), Robert Lorenz ("Letters From Iwo Jima"), Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa ("Little Miss Sunshine" and "Little Children"), Judd Apatow ("Tal...

February 1, 2007

Calendar for 2/1/07

By Mollie Vandor

Thursday (2/1/07): Sultry femme fatales, stoic tough guys, rough and tumble gangsters and a whole lot of sexy French accents make "Army of Shadows" one neo-noir film worth checking out immediately. Lucky for you, it's pl...

January 25, 2007

Nuns, Guns and Ron Livingston

By Mollie Vandor

Whether you're on the film majors e-mail list, an avid surfer of local news sites or just someone who happens to pay attention to what's going on around them, you've probably noticed that something's happening in Santa B...

January 25, 2007

Calendar for 1/25/07

By Mollie Vandor

Thursday (1/25/07): Take advantage of a rare opportunity to see the works of painter, screenwriter, novelist, experimental video artist and filmmaker D.A. Metrov when the "Metrovspective" exhibit opens today at the Artam...

January 18, 2007

Just Press Play

By Mollie Vandor

Looking for a way to make the long winter nights go by a little quicker? Afraid to traipse around DP because your California constitution can't handle the cold? Don't worry, Artsweek has your back.

January 11, 2007

Soapy, Sappy & oh So Scandalous

By Mollie Vandor

"Notes On A Scandal" is the kind of film Hitchcock could have created - had Hitchcock been less into thrills and chills and more into soaps and salacious scandals.

December 7, 2006

12/7/06

By Mollie Vandor

Thursday (12/7): Jazz buffs and local music aficionados alike should head over to the Biko House at 6612 Sueno Rd. tonight for an evening of experimental jazz.