The world won't be the same without Tony Stella in it, but his spirit, integrity, and passionate love of movies lives on in the work he left behind.
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The author of Miss May Does Not Exist opens up about writing a book on the famously elusive and brilliant Elaine May, falling down rabbit holes, and her own deep love for Ishtar.
From the opening frames of Bringing Out the Dead, Nicolas Cage’s eyes are front and center, his weary, haunted visage telling you most everything you need to know about his character’s internal state. And while the film is ultimately about many things—suffering, guilt, compassion, redemption—it’s those eyes, throughout the movie and long afterwards, that stay with you.
If you were there, and paying attention, it was almost impossible to miss even while it was happening: 1999 was, quite possibly, the single best year in movie history.
On Mads Mikkelsen's cathartic dance in Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round.
Moving between the universal and the specific, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life builds an ethereal, impressionistic sense of time that ebbs and flows like a memory or a dream.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of You Can Count on Me's release, Kenneth Lonergan sits down to talk at length about the experience of making his first movie.
Well, I haven’t done one of these in a while. For 39 months, to be precise. But November 2020 is...
"Genius is a word that’s thrown around a lot, but I think whatever it means, if Elaine May is not a brilliant improviser, nobody is. If Elaine May is not a brilliant actress, nobody is. If she’s not a brilliant writer, nobody is. If she’s not a brilliant director, nobody is. So whatever that word means, you can apply it to her in four different categories at least, and probably more."
It’s heartbreaking to think that a film as smart, charming, and unique as Ishtar effectively ended the career of one of our greatest directors, especially when it was never really given a fighter’s chance to get off the ground.
Springsteen on Broadway restores and replenishes, briefly buoying our battered hearts and reminding us that we are capable of so much more.
"All of life's riddles are answered in the movies." —Steve Martin, Grand Canyon