Robert Redford

The Great Gatsby's Sometimes Great, But Not Always Good

Beautiful, damned

How to Spot Hollywood's Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)

The Great Gatsby Is Getting a 3-D Makeover?

​In 1974, the inaugural issue of People magazine was released, featuring Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan from Gatsby, "The year's next big movie." That film, what we would argue is the quintessential, and most beautiful/tragic Gatsby, also featured Robert Redford, with the screenplay written by F ... More >>

In Praise of Natalie Wood

​"A mixture of orphan and clown" is what the great Natalie Wood played in 1965's musical melodrama Inside Daisy Clover, but that could also describe Natalie herself--a porcelain anti-waif whose radioactive spunk seemed to be a compensation for never quite feeling she was good enough or truly b ... More >>

Less Money, Fewer Hits at Midpoint of Sundance 2009

The Greatest: a mourning-family turkey with all the trimmings What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left? Would you still be you? These are among the concerns taken u ... More >>

The City Is Their Laboratory

Pratt students invent the next New York—for real.

NY Mirror

Jack Anderson: An Appreciation

The muckraking outsider never gave a damn about entree

Celebrity Journalist

Confessions of a Democratic Mind: George Clooney presses for freedom of the press

Deep Throat to Turd Blossom

When ethics and profit clash in today's corporate newsrooms, guess which side wins?

My Fake Candidate

Robert Altman and Cynthia Nixon talk about Tanner

Campaign Trailers

Recounting election-year movies that attempted to swing the vote

Film

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

365 Days Later

The Other of Invention

Mild Thing

Search and Rescue Operations

Losing the Plot at Sundance

The Reel Deal

Houses of the Unholy

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

G.I. Jane

A Hollywood Daughter’s Radical Past Winds up on the Cutting Room Floor

NY Mirror

A Guide to the Season's Competitors

Down By Law

When Movie Moguls Wage War to Protect Copyright, the First Amendment Ends Up on the Cutting Room Floor

Face Value

Terence Stamp Returns in a Custom-Made Star Vehicle

Dirty Work

Chilly Scenes

A Winter Movie Preview
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