James Dean

Tragic Lovers Get Teenage Kicks in Romeo and Juliet Revival

Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen Continue to Live Dazzling Parallel Lives Onstage

Golden girls

Confuse the Market: Post-Crossover, Indie Retreats

The Queen Is Dead: Long Live Liz Taylor

'Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures'—A MOMA Film Fest Without Any Popcorn

Lou Reed, Nico, and a pretty blowjob

Remember That Time You Bought Me Coffee?: A Totally Platonic Love Letter to Foster Kamer

​It is Foster's last day today. We feel things. We wrote this. Oh, Foster. It seems we only just met, and at the same time, that we've known you all of our lives. You've been there working side by side with us, sweating through our respectable button-downs that summer when you had the only o ... More >>

What to Buy the Movie Buff Who Has Everything?

Buffalo Is So Over Carl Paladino

​In credence to the adaptability and resilience of the human spirit, Buffalo, hometown to the little governor that wasn't, Carl Paladino, is kinda okay with things. In fact, maybe they never loved him in the first place. And even if they did, they certainly didn't consider him "marriage materi ... More >>

Jim Morrison Hottest Thing Since Dean and Brando

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 14, 1967, Vol. XIII, No. 9 Scenes by Howard Smith THERE REALLY hasn't been a major male sex symbol since James Dean died and Marlon Brando got a paunch. Dylan is more of a cerebral heart throb and the Beatles have always been ... More >>

'That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!' at BAM

The accident changed Monty's face, and his life, but not his talent

Clip Job: Tacos, Rock 'n' Roll Girls Invade the Village

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 30, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 37 Scenes By Howard Smith The girl who plays the drums is not allowed to play barefoot any more. There seems to be a city regulation against naked toes and soles in a restaurant. She still has a lot going ... More >>

Electricity for All in Elia Kazan's Wild River

City boy–country girl sparks, and plenty of politics

Miguel Gutierrez Goes to the Movies; Bill Young and Colleen Thomas Build a Crazy Quilt

DANCES FOR DEAN

A young film giant remembered

Clip Job: Newfield Surveys the Folk-Music Revolution!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 14, 1965, Vol. X, No. 13Blowin' in the Wind: A Folk-Music RevoltBy Jack NewfieldOn the frontier of every art form guerilla bands of prophets and crackpots are nourishing the orthodoxies and fashions of tomorrow.A decade ago the frontie ... More >>

Rebel Without a Cause

Karl Malden, 1912-2009

Karl Malden was a serious actor in the league of Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Rod Steiger. But he wasn't as showy as they were about it. The Chicago Serbian-American had an unpretentious midwestern manner and lumpy features which may have encouraged him in his behavioral modesty. But Malden, who s ... More >>

How to Be

Ashes and Diamonds

Paul Newman, 1925-2008

Will Heath Finally Get The Oscar?

Clip Job: Kingsley Amis and Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation

Poland's Greatest Cult Film Returns

Blow Your Mind at BAM

Clip Job: Some Observations on Hollywood

Clip Job: James Dean Causes Teen Convulsions

Presley Termed Whirling Dervish By Village Pastor

Live: Morrissey in Birmingham, Alabama.

In Living Color

Tashlin's eye-popping '50s artifacts pile on gags like live-action Looney Tunes

Berlin Haul: Fascinating But Cautious Retro From the DDR

Denim Dilemma

Designer jeans are over—almost

Tee Season

You cool kids are all wearing those zany slogan T-shirts? How quaint.

A Forgotten Landmark Chronicles the Empire of the 'Sun Tribe'

The Original Rebel Giant, Lost to the East of Eden

Rack Focus

Popeye Straddles a Rocket; Special Forces in WWII Italy, on Your Phone

Alien Game's Truth Is Way Out There; Old Skool Phone Fun

Books

Picture This

The Best Photo Books of 2003

Schoolyard Terror: 11 Landmarks

Hello Stranger

Alienated Dreamers and Lusty Rebels

Faith Yes More

Monsters, Inc.

Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

Keeping Up With the Kids

Teenpop Encyclopedia 2000

Teen Angels

Past and repast

Docked

Straight out the Trailer

Out of the Running

In Stitches

The Menswear How and Why