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The Wall Street Journal continues its slide.
A 2024 The Point interview with author and New York Review Books editor/publisher Edwin Frank vs. a 2025 The Lampoon interview with Purple co-founder and editor in chief Olivier Zahm.
Good Fortune is undermined by its didactic political agenda.
Dwayne Johnson is very good in The Smashing Machine, but the film itself is oddly inert.
Taking Jose’s pills.
In and around Inwood Park at the top of Manhattan.
The high alchemy of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland in 1945's The Clock.
He's a serious figure now, and the President owes him his attention.
Father Mother Sister Brother feels like Jim Jarmusch's greatest hits, despite the accolades at Venice.
Gripping stuff, never to be sounded.
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s latest effort is a thoughtful consideration of the burden of power.
Tell that to the journalists antifa’s beaten up.
The reasons to reject socialism are as numerous as New Yorkers.
No elbow patches, at least.
Film mirrors the world, and bars are microcosms of the world.
An extraordinarily accomplished country debut.
Outrage over trivia while the real betrayals happen backstage.
The new CBS leader has a weak moral center.
The group perform with Jim O'Rourke in Switzerland on July 7, 2000.
The actor talks about working with the Coen Brothers, death, and George Clooney.
The late actress talks about her relationship with Woody Allen, Annie Hall, and more in this 2010 interview.
The actor talks about getting older, Shameless, and his younger years as a relatively unknown actor.
The late actress talks about The Godfather and sings "There's a Lull in My Life" in this Tonight Show appearance aired on December 28, 1972.
The writer pans the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
Roger and James Deakins talk to the cinematographer of Heat and many more in this new interview.
The cinematographer talks about shooting There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, and the end of his relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson.
Roger and James Deakins talk to the director of Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Seven Veils, and more.
Footage from the MTV Vault of the first Lollapalooza festival, held in July 1991.
Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and more talk about their new film in this Q&A recorded at at Lincoln Center.