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Jessica Chastain: "They Said I Wasn't Pretty Enough"

Jessica Chastain is not only an acclaimed actress, she's quite beautiful, so I was stunned to hear her tell the TimesTalk audience last night about her shaky reception when she first went on auditions in L.A. "Many people didn't know what Juilliard was," she said, "or didn't care about my theatrica ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Woody Allen's Jazz Evangelism, Indie Rockstars Invade Brooklyn's Manhattan Inn, Joell Ortiz vs. Gentrification, and More

Play it again, Sam: Allen and the Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band. Photo by John Rogers.​In this week's Village Voice, Stacey Anderson snags an exclusive interview with none other than Woody Allen as, clarinet in hand, the director talks jazz and defends one of America's disappearing art form ... More >>

This Week, in the Voice: Is This Woman Too Hot to Be a Banker?

​Debrahlee Lorenzana was a banker at a Citibank branch in Midtown Manhattan. As you'll see from our cover, she's an attractive woman. But too attractive to keep her job? Elizabeth Dwoskin asks as much in this week's Village Voice cover story, Is This Woman Too Hot to Be a Banker?

New York's Independent Film Community Goes From Boom to Bust

My Big Fat Greek Collapse

Rack Focus

Rack Focus

Slump Fiction

Hollywood's real moneymakers yet to come

Rack Focus

Rack Focus

Die Hard With a Vengeance

Best served cold, Park Chanwook's brutal revenge feast comes with a side of live octopus

Strictly Business

Hustle and crow: Big deals, bigger boasts dominate festival

Film

Film

The Mousetrap

The discord between Disney and Miramax reaches boiling point with Moore's new film

Daze of Being Wild

Pistol operas: Counterprogramming digital Hollywood schlock with digital Asian pulp

Film

Pause for Commercial

Sundance '04: A growth industry, but Biskind's tell-all both thrills and chills the indie set

Lone Gunmen

Telling Lies in America

Bad faith is back: a pair of Clinton-era allegories evoke free-floating late-'90s hypocrisy

NY Mirror

Kicked Out

Miramax Lets Stephen Chow Soccer Comedy Dribble Away

The Shootists

Indie Film Producer Christine Vachon Analyzes 'Project Greenlight'

London Kills Me

Underground Organ Traders and Francophobic Secret Agents

Film

Sell it on the Mountain

Risky Business at Sundance 2003

Everything Is Illuminated

The Critics Speak

Fling Time in a Quiet Town

'8 Mile' Lines and On-the-Job Bondage in Toronto

Virtual Exhibitions

Film Companies Keep Dreaming of a Digital Future

Ghost of the Machine

Mourning Has Risen for Independent Film

Search and Rescue Operations

Losing the Plot at Sundance

NY Mirror

Veteran Players, New Teams

Company Flow

Reversals of Fortune

New Thai Cinema Hits the Road

Mysterious Objects and Black Tigers

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Scenes From the Classroom Struggle

‘O’ Emerges From the Post-Columbine Teenage Wasteland

The Shooting Gallery, 1991–2001

The Rise and Fall of an Indie Empire

God and Man at Cannes

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Shape-Shifting Creature Features

Art & Industry

Expired Ham

Amazed and Confused at Sundance

Troubled Buyers and True Believers

That Old Slack Magic

Sweet Release

Distributing the Art-House Wealth on the Cheap

Rules of the Game

Choose or Lose

Parting Shots

Japanimation's All-ages Show

Defining Deviancy Down

By treating audiences with kid gloves, the MPAA delivers a lethal blow to grown-up fare

The Castle

Autonomy Lessons

Paying the Price of Independence

Virgin Territory