Steve McQueen

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

Fall Arts Guide: Born Free

Steve McQueen's new film challenges audiences to view slavery from the inside out

The Village Voice's Fall 2013 Arts Guide

Drug War Is an Action Film That Prizes Concision and Clarity

Live: M83 Sparkle At Central Park

M83 Central Park Summerstage Wednesday, August 8 Better than: Being forced to watch that Victoria's Secret commercial over and over again. M83 are at a crossroads. Last fall's daringly expansive Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, coupled with its equally cinematic long-form video components, unabashed comm ... More >>

The Bodyguard Wasn't Written For Whitney Houston

Far from it. An imminent biography of Oscar winner Michael Douglas, written by Marc Eliot, reminds us that The Bodyguard had a long and checkered history before it finally came to the screen in the '90s. As Eliot writes:

The One Man Natalie Wood Couldn't Get

Marc Eliot's new book on Steve McQueen has fascinating observations not just about McQueen, but about his various costars, conquests, and lusty-eyed admirers. It says that Natalie Wood--Steve's partner in the 1963 anti-abortion romance Love With The Proper Stranger--liked to find love with a whole ... More >>

"Steve McQueen Was A Fake" Says Movie Costar

In his memoir The Garner Files, movie/TV icon James Garner has this to say about motorcycle maniac Steve McQueen: "He didn't like anything. Like Brando, he could be a pain in the ass on the set.

The Year in Film: People of the Year

Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

The Year in Film: Handicapping the Poll

Sure, The Tree of Life won, but did it really win?

Extreme Sex Addiction in Shame; Extreme Everything in Possession

Here Come The Oscar Films! Clooney! Leo! And Lots of Fucking!

Contenders are piling up in the theaters-here are the ones to watch

Shame Is A Penetrating Look At Sex Addiction

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! "Sex without connection is bad for you" is not exactly an original theme, or something the liberal media (or me and my friends) want to readily embrace. But Steve McQueen's new film, Shame -- which I saw at the New York Film Festival -- is at least a provocative look at the all ... More >>

NYFF: Daily Reviews

Daily updates from the Festival

Emerging from Toronto, No Oscar Frontrunner in Sight

The Screen's Hottest Hottie In Every Way

​Michael Fassbender has made searing impressions in Hunger, Inglourious Basterds, and Jane Eyre, and he's also managed to heat up everything from an X-Men movie to Centurion and beyond. Plus he's coming up in David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, in which Fassbender is the founder of Analyti ... More >>

Steve McQueen's Ass, Pat Boone Naked! NSFW

Thank you, Life magazine archives. Here's the hotrod-riding film star and the Vitalis-haired crooner in flagrante delicious (but separately, of course). Not safe for work.

Americans Are Cool, Says World's Coolest Poll

Just a couple of Cool-mericans.​Have you heard of Badoo? It's "the world's largest social network," and though we don't talk about it too terribly much in America, because we are too cool for such things, it is talking about us! According to a recent online poll on Badoo.com, in which 30,000 p ... More >>

Hunger

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: Bertrand Tavernier's The Princess of Montpensier and More

Plus 'Cruel Cinema,' Rudy Wurlitzer, and other spring film picks

Robert Altman On a Roll with 'Brewster McCloud'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 24, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 52 Films in Focus By Andrew Sarris "BREWSTER McCLOUD" wings it in more ways than one as it takes off on such wildly varied satiric targets as Spiro Agnew, Steve McQueen's mod detective in "Bullitt," the ... More >>

Why Norman Mailer Sucked as a Filmmaker

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 24, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 2 Films by Andrew Sarris Norman Mailer's "BEYOND THE LAW" (at the Art) represents an infinite improvement over "Wild 90," Mailer's maiden effort in cinematographic expression. "Beyond the Law" is at lea ... More >>

This Week's Voice: tUnE-yArDs, Lil Wayne's Rebirth, Alan Lomax in Haiti, Steve McQueen, the Red Riding Triptych, and More

tUnE-yArDs, now proudly R-rated. Photo by Chrissy Piper.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla conducts an occasionally embarrassing chat with one-woman feral folk sensation tUnE-yArDs (contains sex talk!), Brandon Soderberg catches up with Howard Stern's favorite headbanger, Richard Chri ... More >>

Steve McQueen Rides a Dead Horse at Marian Goodman

With no Charlotte Rampling to poke, the video artist turns to Venice and Lady Liberty

This Week in the Voice

​Time was, Andrew Cuomo would pass a lot of harsh comments about rival politicians. Now, the attorney general mainly lets his indictments do the talking. And they've been eloquent. But has the former bully-boy really changed, or just changed tactics? Tom Robbins looks at the possible second Go ... More >>

J. Hoberman's Favorite Films of 2009

Merry Pranksters in The Yes Men Fix the World, Plus (the Not-So-Merry) Bronson

The Ten Greatest Dicks In History!

This is one list I definitely wish I was on---a ranking of the most fantabulous penises in creation. Some of the ones listed are only so amazing because they were so small (or so much smaller than expected), but still, I'd love to be including here (or anywhere)! I'd feel so genitally special! One ... More >>

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Traces a Pre-Lucille Ball Woman's Comedy

Bullitt

This Week's Voice: Spring Arts Guide, Wells Tower, Metric, Soderbergh, Britney Spears, Will Oldham, Mary Gaitskill, I Love You, Man, and More

Frances Llewellyn In this week's Village Voice, we unveil our 2009 Spring Arts Guide: Stacey Anderson on Metric's dreamy new Fantasies, Zach Baron on author Wells Tower's Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, Aaron Hillis in conversation with Steven Soderbergh, Robert Shuster on sculptor Chakaia B ... More >>

The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger

The Films of Robert Mulligan at Walter Reade

"Focus on IFC Films" at BAM

Featuring indie spirit, for good and evil

New York Film Festival 2008

At Home With Bogie, Bacall, And Some Other Everyday Legends

The Cannes Film Festival Thus Far

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet’s schoolhouse drama

Footloose Food Tours Through Brooklyn and the Bronx

This stomach's made for walking

The Life of Reilly

Dream Massive Nightmares of Destruction

Rack Focus

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Another Reason to Love Steve McQueen

Mourning Glory

A British video artist engaged with history both as a participant and as an outsider

This '70s Show

The Art of the Lead

Glossy Magazines Show How It’s Done

Steve Me Alone, You Drive Me Lazy

The Uninvited