It's perfectly understandable that many actors and auteurs feel uncomfortable being urged to schmooze and booze it up to get awards consideration. Wasn't it enough that they already gave a great performance? Do they have to give another one at some embarrassing promotional luncheon? Wonderfully en ... More >>
Not only because he's been cuckolded by whatshername, and because he looks like Max Headroom in David Cronenberg's new anti-capitalist mindscape Cosmopolis, but because he was cutely self deprecating at the TimesTalk he and the director did last night. Wearing a backwards baseball cap and chewing ... More >>
Twilight of a God
His 10 favorite of the year, plus 2
Daily updates from the Festival
The Emmy nominations came out today, but my mind is stuck on the Oscars and how there will be no shortage of leading actress contenders to pick from in 2011. Not only is Meryl Streep donning prosthetics and an accent again, this time as moxieish Margaret Thatcher, but we have the following o ... More >>
On the occasion of a BAM tribute to our man, a look back
Authentic as it feels, the world of Eastern Promises is still a fantasy
An accessible narrative belies something much darker, and stranger, in Eastern Promises
Preparing for the onslaught that is the Toronto Film Festival
Hometown hero Cronenberg elicits applause and shocked silence with his menacing History
Conflicted directors and complicit spectators: A bloodstained century of cinema
Blood not-so-simple: David Cronenberg takes aim at on-screen and real-life violence
Fall brings hope of a brave New World and a historic Violence
The Fall's Top 10 Moviegoing Highlights
Desensitized to Cronenberg's 'Violence', jury anoints Dardennes over Jarmusch and von Trier
Breaking the sound barrier: A director's take on movies, music, adolescence, and politics
Kelly Stuart spins a tangled web for her creepy characters
When Virus Movies Attack!
In Search of Safe Havens
Ivana Trump made a surprise appearance at the Roxy and special-requested a visit to the go-go boys' dressing roomno doubt to compare jewelry.
David Cronenbergs Virtual Surreality
Berlin's Falling Stock
