The director’s Rachel Getting Married spins gold out of the very bleak. Plus, Body of Lies launches a new star.

Oscar season is under way, which means it’s time to be either a) blown away or b) severely underwhelmed.

Author Richard Russo, director Sam Mendes, and actor Philip Seymour Hoffman remember.

Our deliberately oversimplified guide to 40 years in the culture capital of the world.

New York’s hometown auteur on whether a lifetime of psychoanalysis has paid off, and why kids from Yale no longer like good movies.

It might seem specious to observe that New York actors seem more real than their West Coast counterparts. But look at them.

Miracle at St. Anna is Spike Lee’s bloody, blunt attack on the whitewashing of WWII.

Sam Rockwell is quickly becoming Hollywood’s go-to for roles that skirt the edge of polite society.

Mickey Rourke’s odd career, reborn with The Wrestler, is curiously familiar.

Crusading publisher Barney Rosset is Obscene in a good way.