Dennis Hopper

If Only Oz the Great and Powerful Had A Wizard

Sorry James Franco, this Oz is neither great nor powerful

Free Will Astrology: February 13-19, 2013

Elliott Stein, 1928 - 2012

By Nick Pinkerton Elliott Stein, a longtime contributor to The Village Voice, as well as

Ten Crucial Fourth Of July Jams, As Chosen By "Along The Watchtower" Author Constance Squires

​Along The Watchtower, the debut novel by Constance Squires, is a story of an Army brat whose tumultuous upbringing was kept steady in part by her discovery of rock and roll. It's published Tuesday, and in honor of its impending release and the coming holiday—don't forget, Monday's Ameri ... More >>

Lunch With Les Blank

NYPD Arrests Lou Reed's Manager, Tom Sarig, For Threatening Headhunter

​Police have actually arrested rock icon Lou Reed's manager for allegedly threatening to send Israeli hit men to go after a headhunter for the stars in a nasty squabble over an unpaid bill. In a complaint filed two weeks ago with the Midtown North Detective Squad, as the Voice first reported, ... More >>

For Cannon Films, Chuck Norris + Godard = Success

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

Geezers Jump from Commie AARP to Patriotic ASA -- Driven by Health Care, or Incoming Hippie Seniors?

​The American Association of Retired Persons finds itself in a bind. CBS News says thousands of angry geezers are quitting the AARP over the Obama healthcare plan -- even though the AARP has not officially endorsed the plan. "I feel they're supporting it through the backdoor," says one former ... More >>

Craig Baldwin's Mock Up and Mu Unlocks and Mocks the Mysteries of Scientology

Airplane! Director David Zucker Talks About the Left and His New Movie An American Carol

The right stuff

Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley in Elegy

Change You Can't Believe In Swing Vote

Sleepwalking: Relentless in Its Bleakness

Watch Charlize Theron suffer!

Michel Gondry Celebrates the Bygone Days of VHS

Caught on tape: the best of do-it-yourself indie culture in Be Kind Rewind

Keep Folk Alive

Holy Modal Rounders doc, plus a live show at Anthology

Ears to David Lynch!

Obsessive? Artist Christian Tomaszewski rebuilds the world of Blue Velvet.

No Gorillaz at Gorillaz Show

What's Stranger Than Paradise?

Or, How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the 'Burbs

Eat the Rich: New Relevance for Romero's Zombie Horror

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Albums Since July

Poe Relations: Avant-Garde Veteran Revisits His Haunted Past

Back in the Saddle

Major improvement: Peckinpah's westernized 'Nam-era parable returns in bloody recut

We Are Theirs

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if you're seeing Larry King or Owen Wilson or Joan Collins

Return to Sender

Tadpole reborn: Talky indie scores with unglamorous sex, everything else an afterthought

My Generation

Breaking the sound barrier: A director's take on movies, music, adolescence, and politics

Able Ganz

Frog-voiced multilinguist as Swiss sailor, Icelandic waiter, Russian count, fallen angel

The Revolution Will Be Westernized: Leone's Nutty, Lefty Epic

Visage Quest

I'll Be Your Mirror

Listings

Yesterday Once More

Queasy Riders Remember Old Glories

The Desert of the Real

Gus Van Sant Jerry-Rigs the Road Movie

Film

The Medieval Mob Squad

Dishonor Among Thieves

Being Edwin Abbott

••• How a 19th-century Mathematical Fiction Gave Us Our Point of View

Split Decisions: the Critics Speak

Befores and Afters

Points of No Return

The Naked and the Dad

Fear Eats the Soul

Dig Your Own Hole

Contact Sports

Your Own Impersonal Jesus

Punk Is Not Sexual

A Guide to the Season's Competitors

Vice Versa

Trip Teases

Show Time