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Short kings
There are no small parts in movies — only those that are long and those that are short.
That was the philosophy British filmmaker Michael...
Hollywood gate crashers
They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail:...
Room for improvement
Of all the film fests hit hard these past four years, none took it on the chin quite like the Sundance Film Festival.
First, there...
Cinema springs eternal
You could see Stanley Kubrick’s iconic anti-war film Paths of Glory (Jan. 30). Or maybe you’ll check out Kasi Lemmons’ feature debut Eve’s Bayou...
Forget the Alamo, remember ‘Lone Star’
A skull has turned up in the desert along the Texas-Mexico border, and near it lies a sheriff’s badge.
So opens John Sayles’ 1996 Lone Star...
Bestselling book, midlevel movie
It’s not about race; it’s about caste — the system of injustice and subjugation that persists, generation from generation, resistant to the individuals who...
Scrappy little somebody
If you’re an independent filmmaker, getting into the Sundance Film Festival is high on your wishlist.
“It’s such a big festival, and it’s such an...
Straight, no chaser
Some people bite the hand that feeds them. American Fiction’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison wants to chew it whole and spit it back out.
Before we...
Now and then
I love lists. Lists bring order to my day: what to do, what to watch, what to read, what to listen to. Lists provide...
Off to the races
Enzo Ferrari wants to win. Before he was the founder of the Italian luxury car manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. and the similarly named Grand Prix...
Always on my mind
Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person.
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter...
Who needs a swan song?
Golden Era Hollywood screenwriter Frank S. Nugent once described story as a disturbance of the status quo: “Something happens to upset it; the disturbance...
