Cate Blanchett

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

The Top 12 Movie Romances of Summer 2013

Summer 2013 was a strong season for that oft-maligned genre, the romantic comedy. Excellent films like The Spectacular Now and Drinking Buddies for the most part avoided rom-com cliches, and reinventions like Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing made timeless story lines seem fresh. Still other on-s ... More >>

Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine Returns to a World That's Not Quite Earth

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

Movie Stars Playing Movie Stars: A Marvy Montage

No one plays a legendary movie star like another movie star--I mean, they really know how it's done, or at least they're willing to trot out their best mannerisms and try. Here are some of the most memorable examples (some because they're brilliant, others because they're glittery trash) of filmla ... More >>

BACK IN The USSR

Uncle Vanya with star power

Streisand's Directing Her First Movie In 16 Years

If she can raise the money, that is. And it's pretty shocking that she's having trouble doing so considering that Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Colin Firth are attached to star in the film, which is called Skinny and Cat. Is it about Kate Hepburn and a very thin stutterer?

Transgender And Drag At The Oscars! A Fabulous Pictorial!

In Albert Nobbs, Glenn Close (above) convincingly plays a woman who dresses like a man in order to nab some employment in 19th-century Ireland. But it's the kind of stunt that can also nab you awards consideration.

The Chemical Brothers Are Totally Uncool

​I mean they're so cool that they're actually uncool, which is very cool. Got it? See, the British electronica duo did the pulsing soundtrack for the arty action-slash-coming-of-age flick Hanna by director Joe Wright (known for Pride and Prejudice and Atonement). At the premiere last night ... More >>

Tracking a Teenage Mutant Ninja in Hanna

Worst Oscars Ever!

Or at least since the Rob Lowe/Snow White one. Here's why: *ZERO suspense. Any random person on the street has known the winners for months. *The tug between "young and hip personalities" and ancient film references was as schizo as Cate Blanchett's dress. *The acceptance speeches were either da ... More >>

Staten Island's PS22 Chorus Were The Only Remotely Competent Performers At The Oscars

Oh my dogg, the Oscars were terrible this year: Anyone who is not Trent Reznor, Randy Newman, or Cate Blanchett ("That's gross") is invited to take a seat. The only other entity that came out ahead: Staten Island's own PS22 Chorus, taking a break from prettying up tunes from Katy Perry, MGMT, Arie ... More >>

The 10 Best Female Outfits in Movie History

​ Who cares about the men? They always wear suits or sweaty T-shirts. But from the beginning of cinema, Hollywood's ladies have gotten swathed and feathered and dressed and undressed in ways that have made the fashion world rock with diversity and delight. My 10 all-time fave looks are:

Is Robin Hood One Big Medieval Tea Party?

​The New York Times review asks that very question and concludes, "Kind of, though that description makes the movie sound both more fun and more provocative than it actually is." I had a couple of problems with the film. The added backstory and increased action sequences seem a little too cal ... More >>

Who's The Best Movie Actress of the Sound Era?

​In the "top five" list I'm about to share, I wish I could have squeezed in some more of my old favorites, but their filmographies had some holes in them. I also wish I could have included a few more current names, but I can't honestly say Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, or Cate Blanchett have e ... More >>

A Buried Tennessee Williams Screenplay, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

This Week's Voice: Phish, G-Side, Phil Kline, I Slept With Joey Ramone, Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones, the Year's Best Graphic Novels, and More

Phil Kline gets into the holiday spirit. Photo by Tom Jarmuich​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla does the thing that probably everybody with a masochistic streak should probably do at least once, which is go to a Phish show at Madison Square Garden, while Brandon Soderberg meets up wi ... More >>

David Mamet's Race, Melissa James Gibson's This, Liv Ullmann and Cate Blanchett's Take On Streetcar

HEY, STELLA!

Cate Blanchett tries to stay alive

Benjamin Button Features Pitt and Blanchett in Orgy of Excess

For those who did not get enough Forrest Gump . . .

Indiana Jones and the Fortress of Sad Decline

Its very own temple of doom, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull digs Indy into a very deep hole

WRITE ON

Russell Banks discusses his new novel

Stephen Malkmus on Getting Hit By a Big Rock. . . and Badgered About the Pavement Reunion

Bye, Heath. I Wish You Hadn't Quit Us!

Oscar Predictions Filled With Greed and Vengeance!

From the seer, suckers: The nominees, plus trash talk about some non-nominees

Things I Learned Watching I'm Not There

65 Revisited

Hentoff's Dylan Interview Provides "I'm Not There" Dialogue

Camping it up with Cate Blanchett

Queen Hard with a Vengeance's golden age and porcelain throne

Movies To Go

Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival

It Is Impossible Not To Laugh at David Cross as Allen Ginsberg

Oh No She Didn't!

The Oscar Race Decoded!

Predator v. Predator

Everyone's miserable in Patrick Marber's latest, and it feels so good

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make 'em like they used to

Communication Breakdown

Narrative gimmickry can't save vapid, globally conscious puzzle-film

Immaterial Girl

Vintage for Dummies: The Idiot's Guide to Old Clothes

Ride With the Devil

An anti-oater searches for the Man With No Name, who happens to be in town this week

The Martyr They Come

Schumacher and Grisham both found guilty as charged in crime-drama-cliché festivals

Fall Film

Collision Courses

Conquest of the Air

The Sum of Oz

Kitsch as Kitsch Can

Waking the Dread

Parallel Lives

Pushing Tin

NY Mirror

Definitely honor-free will be Joseph Fiennes for Shakespeare (sorry, but the Bard didn't look like Rob Lowe).

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