A sense of expansion presides over this year's New York Film Festival, the 49th and first since Lincoln Center's new $41 million film center was opened.
But as with all things NYFF, any growth is measured and restrained.
The annual movie (...)
Sitting down for breakfast on a recent rainy New York day, Michael Shannon was uncertain about the prospect of food.
"They say you're supposed to eat breakfast," he said, pondering the option. "You don't eat breakfast, you'll go crazy."
The (...)
NEW YORK — Streaming movies might not yet have the equivalent of a theater experience, with roaring crowds crunching on popcorn, but they are getting more social.
Hollywood studios have increasingly looked to social media and Facebook, in (...)
Amy Winehouse released only two albums in her life, one of which sold more than a million copies, won five Grammys and sparked a retro soul movement that hasn't yet stopped.
The small output, in inverse relation to her outsized talent, made her (...)
After every performance of the hit Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon," Josh Gad and Rory O'Malley bow side-by-side, a nightly celebration of a journey the two began as college roommates more than a decade ago.
Since living together as (...)
A welcome sense of optimism pervaded the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival.
After several years of gloomy prospects for independent film, filmmakers and audiences seemed buoyed by the hope of new technologies leading viewers to worthy (...)
Sequels are usually more easily found at summer multiplexes than prestigious film festivals, but this year's Tribeca Film Festival abounds in unusual follow-ups and intriguing companion pieces.
None of these films bears a Roman numeral or (for (...)
Jennifer Egan's inventive novel about the passage of time, "A Visit from the Goon Squad," won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday, honored for its "big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed."
Egan, 48, has been highly praised (...)
The Australian filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue Films has been around since 1996, when a handful of friends made a short that turned out good enough to warrant persistence.
Next Sunday, they'll enjoy a moment in movies' biggest spotlight: the (...)
Tyler Perry, whose name usually adorns the titles to his films, has not disowned his latest, the simply dubbed "For Colored Girls."
On the contrary, his gesture of seeming humility is a self-conscious stab at respectability. With his 10th film, (...)
Though David Fincher and Trent Reznor were both central figures in the heyday of music videos, their most significant collaboration has come years later — not on MTV but in one of the most acclaimed films of the year.
Reznor — with producer (...)
It may seem backward to travel to one of the most beautiful cities in the world and sit in the dark.
In Paris, there are seemingly endless rues and quais and museums and cafes to explore, which means visitors often hurry past one of the city's (...)
The festival experience — for all its glory and its port-a-johns — was on full display at this year's Bonnaroo.
More than 75,000 endured days that frequently topped 100 on the heat index. Heavy rain fell when the festival gates opened on (...)
Matt Berninger, the baritone-voiced lead singer of the National, is sitting at a Brooklyn restaurant explaining the excitement the band felt as their fifth album, "High Violet," was coming together.
It even made them feel like high-fiving, (...)
If there was one film that reflected the ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival, it was the story of a young man who pursues his peculiar, nearly insane vision until his determination wins over everyone.
"The Trotsky" stars Jay Baruchel (...)
Jane Rosenthal, the co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, has taken to calling this year's edition "the Alex Gibney festival."
Gibney, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker of "Taxi the Dark Side," has three films at Tribeca: his (...)
It was the last day of shooting for a Pepsi commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 1984, and the only hiccup had been an argument between Michael Jackson and an ad executive over whether the young superstar would take off his (...)