Sissy Spacek

Julianne Moore on Maisie, Carrie, and Sarah Palin

The star tells me about being in all of the movies, period

Julianne Moore On Maisie, Carrie, And Sarah Palin

After copping an Emmy as Sarah Palin, Julianne Moore is now playing a rambunctious rock performer in What Maisie Knew, an updated adaptation of the Henry James novel about a girl caught between two selfish divorcing parents. The film's release was a great excuse for me to catch up with Julianne Moo ... More >>

Welcome To L.A.: A Real Cinema Curio

I live for good/bad movies of the golden age, and 1977's Welcome To L.A. fits the bill, smog and all. It's an arid story of interlocking romances, all set amidst a bleak, impersonal, unhappy, yearning L.A. landscape where you never see all that many people in any scene. (Maybe there was a low budge ... More >>

Deadfall

Guess Who's Going To Play Loretta Lynn?

It'll be in a stage version of Coal Miner's Daughter that's heading to Broadway (hopefully with a stop at Butcher Holler). Loretta Lynn made the announcement herself, and she's thrilled about it, ka-ching, ka-ching. Besides, it does happen to be an arguable choice:

Sissy Spacek's First Movie Was A Slaughterhouse Shocker! Photos NSFW

Centuries before The Help, aeons before Coal Miner's Daughter, and even before Carrie, there was Prime Cut, a 1972 Michael Ritchie-directed genre film in which Lee Marvin is a mob enforcer who comes to shake up a slaughterhouse owner (Gene Hackman) who turns his enemies into bratwurst and sells girl ... More >>

Saving Herself: Vera Farmiga Tries to Create a Better Role in Higher Ground

Summer Movie Guide 2011

Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.

Sissy Spacek Was a Pop Singer! (Music Below)

​ We all know Oscar winner Sissy Spacek as Carrie, Coal Miner's Daughter, and the co-star of this year's gritty rural drama Get Low. But in 1968, she called herself Rainbo and sang a pop ditty titled, "John, You Went Too Far This Time"--a hallucinogenic screed against Beatle John Lennon and ... More >>

Regrets, I've Had a Few: A Hermit's Pre-Death Funeral in Get Low

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

Sissy Spacek

MAMA, PLEASE!

And you thought you were a freak in high school?

Tribeca Film Festival 2009 Guide

Lissy Trullie Is Ready to Cross 14th Street

A fashion-plate ingenue vies for the rawer pleasures of rock stardom

Witherspoon and Vaughn's Yuletide Carol Is Four Christmases Too Many

Lake City Flooded With Twangy Tropes and Torpidity

P2

Summer Movies: Free Air-Conditioning at the Cineplex

Too hot to deal? Take shelter in the cool and dark of the matinee.

'An American Haunting'

Brooklyn Art Festival Brings Art, Some Rock

Classless Class Action Flick Guilty of Viewer Harassment

'Nine Lives'

'Steal Me'

Summertime in a Small Town: Nowhere Girls in an Idle Idyll

Film

In Bad Company

The girl can't help it: Obsessive, ruthless temp learns how to climb the ladder of success

It's a Small World: Farrell's Man-Child Cut Down to Size

A Manner of Speaking

Rust-belted Motor City meets mined-out Appalachia in the battleground state between

After The Rehearsal

Flirting with Disaster: Discussing Days of Heaven and Dylan classics with Sam Shepard

Go West, Young Author

Meghan Daum's Prairie Days

The Good Girls

Up the Academy

Double Jeopardy

Sexy Beasts and Sweet Nothings

The Haunting Hours

A Grief Observed

Ghost Worlds

Scenes From a Marriage

First-Time Filmmaker Todd Field Goes Behind Closed Doors

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Apartment Over Candy Store

Riffs Are Not Dead

Park City’s Personal Bests

Hurts So Good

Amazed and Confused at Sundance

Troubled Buyers and True Believers

Paradise Garbage

Time of his life

Time Regained

Primal Fears

Blast From the Past

Fathers Figure