Above: Robert Wyatt, remarkably well-adjusted. Hammer Down, Rabbit Ears: Well, whatever you might actually think of it, the idea of Steven Spielberg remaking Harvey is certainly, er, a surprise
"John Hughes, director of culturally significant films such as The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, died suddenly today of a heart attack while taking
"Budd Schulberg, who exposed the dark side of American ambition in his acclaimed Hollywood novel What Makes Sammy Run? and won an Academy Award for his screenplay depicting the mob-controlled
Four critics discuss a seminal work of recent American independent filmmaking.
Bertrand Blier, avuncular iconoclast of the French cinema, has said that his mission is fundamentally Godardian: to expose the mechanisms of cinema, while preserving the emotion of cinema. He's also
Back in Brooklyn, down off Flatbush, they're showing a good, long string of Cary Grant movies at BAM. The series started Monday and runs every day—every day a new picture—through the 20th. Nearly
The Lusty Men and The True Story of Jesse James play as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 5th. *** The West is an idea that is ripe for the kind of explorations
"Cinema of the 1970s has become so mythologized that it's easy to miss the simpler, unknown pleasures lurking in the shadows of Altman, Scorsese andCassavetes," writes Nicolas Rapold in Time Out New
The Lusty Men plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 5th. *** Homes for Strangers: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray is an on-going series of articles covering
Starting tomorrow at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles, Joe Dante will be presenting a week-long series of rarely screened favorites he calls, naturally enough, Dante's Inferno. Bruce Dern
Top: Hot Blood. Above: Bitter Victory. Hot Blood and Bitter Victory play as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 4th. *** Bigger than Life tends to feel
Wow, look at the vestibule of that apartment. Back in the early '60s, such a place was regarded as "shabby," never mind its high ceilings. Nowadays you're luck if you could get it for less than three