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According to a recent New Yorker profile, the door to director Oliver Stone's office is decorated with the following legend,…
In Hollywood, where everyone's, writing a screenplay, your odds of selling a script are about as good as winning the…
Early on in Barcelona, the new film from writer-producer-director Whit Stillman, Ted Boynton reveals to his cousin Fred that he…
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Here I am, in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, where Hollywood has spent the last week throwing one…
The Academy Award nominations have been announced, and to absolutely no one's surprise, they were dominated by Steven Spielberg, whose…
Like his movies, British filmmaker Mike Leigh is confrontational and acerbic, with a dark wit and strong opinions. But Leigh,…
For better or worse, movies are the closest thing we've got to a cultural Rorshak test. Like Rorshak's inkblots, movies…
Success doesn't exactly come easy to Ron Bass, but Bass, the co-writer and co-producer of The Joy Luck Club and…
As anyone who has seen the movies of Kurosawa, Truffaut, or Bergman knows, great filmmakers tend to leave not only…
As those of you who are hardcore cineastes probably know, "High and Low," the headline for this inaugural Freeze Frame,…