A Misappropriated Turkey

May 22, 2012 — These five films chart the unlikely ascendance of a hero of American underground cinema.

May 16, 2012 — Chuck Klosterman is the author of seven books (most recently, The Visible Man and Eating the Dinosaur) and serves as an accidental narrator of the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits. Of compiling this list, Klosterman says,...

May 15, 2012 — Circumlocutory critic Perkus Tooth sits down with a very patient Spike Jonze to talk gerunds and colons.

Apr 27, 2012 — Film scholar Annette Insdorf does a great job summing up The Unbearable Lightness of Being in her terrific new book on Philip Kaufman.

Apr 18, 2012 — Born in Queens, New York, American television writer and producer Phil Rosenthal is best known as the creator of the hit sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which ran on CBS for nine seasons; he is also the director of the 2010...

Apr 3, 2012 — Lena Dunham talked to us about a series she just programmed of films that have inspired her.

Mar 13, 2012 — John Taylor is a member of the British rock group Duran Duran, which he founded in 1978 while at college in Birmingham, along with his fellow student Stephen “TinTin” Duffy and their neighborhood friend Nick Rhodes. When not on the...

Mar 7, 2012 — A celebration of one of the great cosmopolites of the twentieth century, in one of the cosmopolises he adored.

In the span of a mere sixteen years, this German wunderkind made an astonishing forty-four movies that run the gamut from melodramas to period pieces to science fiction.

Feb 22, 2012 — Oren Moverman, who appears as a visitor to the theater in Vanya on 42nd Street, is the cowriter and director of the 2010 Oscar-nominated The Messenger. He served as a screenwriter on I’m Not There, Married Life, and Jesus’ Son,...