Photo by R. Sebree/FoxReality shows whose purpose is to anoint a new star in some profession — modeling,
fashion design, kissing the ass of a cartoony real est
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Photo by Alix LambertDavid Milch is standing in the Gem Saloon, a whorehouse built as part of the set for the award-winning HBO ensemble series Deadwood, which Milch
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Why does a man choose, on a given day, to let his life go to hell? In the opening of Red Lights, adapted from a 1953 novel by Georges Simenon, writer-director Cédr
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Photo by Andrew Copper
When we last met The Bride (Uma Thurman) in Kill Bill: Vol. 1, she’d just spent a good 20 minutes dispatching psycho schoolgirl
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The paradox of being Philip Kaufman — nine of whose 12 feature films are the subject of a retrospective at the American Cinematheque this week — is that
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Filmmaker and CalArts faculty member Thom Andersen — whose Los Angeles Plays Itself debuted to great acclaim at this year’s Toronto Film Festival a
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Someone once said that smoking a cigarette is as near as you can get to doing nothing while technically doing something. If so, watching Two and a Half Men, the new
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The story of Seabiscuit, a beat-up wreck of a horse and his beat-up wreck of a jockey who rose together from Depression-era nowhere to win every high-stakes ho
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Photo by Bruce Birmelin
ON THE RARE OCCASIONS WHEN American films take sex seriously, the result is usually sleep-inducing pseudo-erotica (Henry & June)
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It isn’t the Second Coming of rent control, but a bill that would move a little money from the pockets of bad landlords to those of upright renters faces a mom
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Photo by John Shard
OF ALL THE BAND NAMES IN ROCK & ROLL HISTORY, Joy Division is perhaps the most evocatively sinister. (In Nazi Germany, the “jo
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Photos by Anne Fishbein
The very classification “amateur” has an apologetic ring. But that very word — from the Latin “amator, lover”
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