Pomp, Polanksi & Paranoia: Remembering Cannes 1986
Some folks were afraid terrorists would strike. Others were suspicious that the fix was in. May 22, 2025 | “So how come Rambo isn’t coming here, eh?” The question, posed…
Robert Benton Talks About Texas Ties And Making Movies
August 2, 1987 | Thomas Wolfe was mistaken: You can go home again. And if you’re Robert Benton, the only triple Oscar winner ever raised in Waxahachie, Texas, you can…
Billy Joel on Oliver & Company
November 28, 1988 | Pop star Billy Joel makes his movie debut, sort of, in this year’s holiday package from Walt Disney Productions, Oliver & Company. You can’t actually see…
Robert De Niro on A Bronx Tale
September 26, 1993 | For a superstar who’s long been notorious as a press-shy recluse, Robert De Niro certainly has been conspicuously visible in recent weeks. There he is in…
John Cusack of The Sure Thing
March 2, 1985| John Cusack, star of The Sure Thing, may be The Next Big Thing if his movie is a commercial success. The prospect leaves him decidedly ambivalent. “To tell…
Julian Sands on A Room With a View
December 12, 1986| Julian Sands, the handsome young star of A Room with a View, had tried to be a game fellow the night before and joined his Houston hosts for…
Jean-Louis Trintignant of A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
December 30, 1986 | First, the bad news: Contrary to what you might have thought after seeing Claude Lelouch’s lushly romantic A Man and a Woman (1966), the lovers did not…
Mye Hoang — Director of the A-Meow-Sing Documentary Cat Daddies
October 8, 2021 | Call it Kedi — American Style, and you won’t be far off the mark. Cat Daddies, Mye Hoang’s irresistibly appealing documentary, is so insightfully observed,…
Michael Caine on “The Quiet American”
November 17, 2002 | Michael Caine is, by his own admission, “a news junkie,” the kind of compulsive who’ll reflexively tune his TV to CNN during any lull in a day’s activities.…
Virginia Madsen on “Candyman”
October 26, 1992 | The good news is, Virginia Madsen got to go back to her native Chicago to shoot scenes for her new movie, Candyman. The bad news was,…