Acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh goes way upbeat in his latest film, “Happy-Go-Lucky.” We’ll ask him why.
Comments [14]Filmmaker Wayne Wang, director of “The Joy Luck Club,” on Chinese- American life now and his new film, “The Princess of Nebraska.”
Comments [3]Remembering Paul Newman. Actor and activist. Butch Cassidy. Cool Hand Luke. We look back on an American movie hero.
Comments [2]Alfred Hitchcock was for years the master of movie suspense. But fifty years ago — May, 1958 — he brought out a film so weird that filmgoers didn’t know what to make of it.
It was called “Vertigo.” It had Jimmy Stewart as a San Francisco detective afraid of heights, on the trail of icy blond [...]
In 1967, revolution was in the air. And not just on college campuses. Hollywood, too, was at the threshold of a generational rebellion.
The year’s Oscar nominees told the story: So long to the super-sanitized, big-studio moviemaking machines. Hello to the new rough-and-tumble — sex, violence, and rock-n-roll. Out with the “Sound of Music” clones. In [...]
It’s the season of big releases and Oscar angling, at the end of a wild, up and down year for movies — from sweeping epics of war won and lost, to comic close-ups on pregnancy, young love, and growing up.
There were the perennial Hollywood blockbusters — from “Ratatouille” to “Spiderman III” to yet another “Pirates [...]
It sounds like a culture-war set piece: Hollywood rolls out a religious-themed Christmas blockbuster and conservative believers go ballistic. That was the story this weekend with the release of “The Golden Compass.”
Based on the wildly popular fantasy novels by British author Philip Pullman, a famously outspoken atheist, the film casts God and the Church as [...]
Mike Huckabee joins us. We’ll get the Huckabee view of the GOP now, and the Republican Party in the Obama era.
After the terror in Mumbai, we look at what the bloody attacks mean for India, Pakistan, and the United States.
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British actor Michael Palin on how Monty Python came to be.
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Helene Cooper and her amazing story of privilege and flight from Africa in “The House at Sugar Beach.”
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