The holiday and movie-award season occupies one of the biggest and blackest quarters (as in bottom line) in the consumer year. The market celebrates the arrival of Black Friday, even though both  

Our tumultuous political climate has threatened to overtake the realm of film as each side battles for the right to claim moral high ground and hoist the banner for religious activism. However, fo  

LOS ANGELES -- Considering how well James Mangold knows Johnny Cash's life and habits, it's odd he's tentative about one crucial thing. When the two first met, he's unsure if the iconic Ameri  

In two words, 9 Songs is scenester porn: fucking -- which is not simulated -- and going to shows. Our lovers, Matt (Kieran O'Brien) and Lisa (Margo Stilley), have no mutual friends, no stomach fl  

From the Year of the Woman to the Year of the African American, we are constantly looking to Hollywood for signs of change on the cultural horizon. Maybe in time 2005 will be seen as a watershed   

Frustration can be a powerful thing. It has the capability to create wonder and enlightenment, which John Parker has produced in his latest film, Dead On. Residing in Cincinnati for four years, Pa  

A dark angel, he's shuffling in/ Watching over them/ With his black feather wings unfurled. -- "Dream Brother," Jeff Buckley The final images of director Tony Scott's Domino feature the rea  

In Adaptation, screenwriting genius Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) struggles with finding a filmic pathway into Susan Orlean's seemingly impenetrable novel, The Orchid Thief. His journey begins   

LOS ANGELES -- Poor Terry Gilliam. People say that about the 64-year-old director so often you'd think "poor" is Gilliam's first name. Now the question is whether his latest film, The Brother  

In the end, everyone had advice for this story. That's what happens when people who write stories for a living become the subject of a story. Steve Ramos, head film critic for CityBeat, wanted   

LOS ANGELES -- Broken Flowers, the contemplatively quiet, quintessentially indie film by writer/director Jim Jarmusch, has the kind of cast you might expect to see in a splashy, big-budget Hollyw  

A wonderful television moment -- an immortal one, maybe -- occurs midway through the June 25, 1970, Dick Cavett Show when Janis Joplin asks fellow guest Douglas Fairbanks Jr. if he knew F. Scott F  

On the first track of his 1993 album Triage, David Baerwald created a noirish "Secret Silken World," full of "sex and submission" where inhabitants got to "feel like the devil in the blue mo  

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF. -- This interview with Happy Endings writer/director Don Roos starts on a light note and soon moves into such serious topics as teen sexuality, gayness in America and career  

LOS ANGELES -- Miranda July's debut feature, Me and You and Everyone We Know, is fictional, but it draws on her own experiences for its unusual worldview. In this quirky yet endearing breakthro