Your voice on the phone is much younger than it is in the movie. Actually it's different from any of your movie voices. It depends on what character I'm being this week, but it's usually just the same ...

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Was a teenager’s bedroom always a sanctum sanctorum, all color-coordinated and walls plastered with posters, ironic road signs, and cut-out photos—or did some savvy Hollywood art director dream up ...

While Shohei Imamura may not be a forgotten figure in the history of Japanese cinema, his docudrama A Man Vanishes (67) only received its U.S. theatrical release last November, while his other ...

Quintessential fairbanks swashbuckling abounds in this Raoul Walsh–directed adaptation of the Arabian Nights stories, in which Fairbanks’s crafty but charismatic (and remarkably agile) thief ...

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An early title card in Pavements, the new biopic-doc hybrid from director Alex Ross Perry, describes the indie-rock group Pavement as “The World’s Most Important & Influential Band”—the first cheeky ...

While the current vogue in the culture wars is for representation above all else, in the 1970s feminist artists and writers were consumed by how to reconfigure narrative entirely. From Laura Mulvey’s ...

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