The Sound of Music (Movie)

Kristin Chenoweth on the Oscars, Adele, Hugh Jackman, and S&M

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The Sound of Music Is Coming To TV: I Know Who Should Star

The Sound of Music is a perfect movie, no matter what Christopher Plummer has been muttering for decades. It happens to be sweeping, enchanting, funny, adorable, and scary--the perfect mix of puppets, moppets, and Nazis. And now that it's been announced to come to TV in a whole new version, I want ... More >>

The 10 Biggest Box Office Movies Of All Time

If you look that up, you'll generally find a list that includes a bunch of recent films, both animated and comic bookish, and all very large and loud. But boxofficemojo.com took the time to adjust all the domestic grosses for inflation, so this list that they posted is way more accurate. And sudde ... More >>

Meryl Won't Win, and Other Surefire Oscar Predictions

This is the only ballot you'll need at your viewing party

Tea Party Princess

Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics

Two Veterans Battle It Out For Best Supporting Actor

Two of the candidates for this year's Best Supporting Actor Oscar are really extraordinary old people. Christopher Plummer shines in Mike Mills's Beginners as the father of the Mills character (played by Ewan McGregor), who comes out of the closet at 75 and really starts to live. Plummer himself i ... More >>

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Zooms In

Brian Kellow's biography tries to tackle the iconic film critic

Buy Marilyn Monroe's "Subway Dress" For Only $2 Million

​Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch is on sale for the low, low price of $2 million. It's the halter dress she wears while standing over the subway grate, trying to keep the skirt down. Actress Debbie Reynolds, 79, who is Carrie Fisher's mother, is also a movie memorabili ... More >>

Watch Out, Galliano! There's a New Hitler Lover In Town!

​For some reason, creative visionaries have felt emboldened to spill their deep, dark admiration for Adolf Hitler in public lately. First, designer John Galliano was ruined for screaming such thoughts at someone he felt deserved to be in an oven. And now, filmmaker Lars von Trier has been ba ... More >>

Charlie Chaplin Classes Up the 1972 Oscars Ceremony

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 20, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 16 films in focus By Andrew Sarris The 44th annual festivities of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began with a whimper and ended with a bang, demonstrating that, among other things, Oscar ... More >>

Colin Firth Said the C-Word!

Speechifying on Broadway, plus plenty of cussing and discussing

Bob Hope, John Wayne, Cary Grant -- the 1970 Oscars

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 16, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 16 Films in Focus by Andrew Sarris OSCAR GOES TO COLLEGE: You could hardly recognize Oscar this year at the celebration of his 42nd birthday. After years of flaunting his nouveau riche vulgarity and grade s ... More >>

When Stars Don't Get The Movie Version

​Supposedly there will be a movie made of the Broadway show Memphis, and I bet they don't use the stage cast. They hardly ever do! And I wish they would! Remember when they made a movie of Doubt two years ago and Cherry Jones didn't get the part?

Your First Movie?

​What's the first movie you ever saw in an actual theater? My answer will date myself, but it's nice to date somebody. It was The Sound of Music! And I adored it! It had everything I turned out to need in a film--scenery, music, puppets, lederhosen, Julie Andrews, and Nazi hating! And I g ... More >>

James Gray Gets Goofy in Two Lovers

Fraulein Maria

The Thrills Are Alive

Alert Julie Andrews! Doug Elkins brings Fraulein Maria back to Joe's Pub

Erik Sanko's Creepy Puppets Meet the Kronos Quartet

Love with strings attached at BAM's Next Wave Festival

Then Again

Old Acquaintance evokes a bygone New York, but is that enough?

Watch Out, Julie!

Tackling a classic with love and impudence

Get Up and Try Again

Life as a vaudeville in which irony squeezes out a tear as well as a guffaw

Death of a Salesman

Ronald Reagan, 1911–2004

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

His Favorite Things

Faith No More

'The Believer' Makes the Long Pilgrimage to the Silver Screen

Kitsch as Kitsch Can

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Redeeming Features

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