Critics and casual readers have long suspected Steve Martin was waxing autobiographical when he wrote Shopgirl, his bittersweet novella about the short-lived romance between Ray Porter, a fiftysomething dot-com millionaire,…

January 22, 2006 | Director Steven Soderbergh is an Oscar-winning A-lister, with credits ranging from the gritty Traffic to the fizzy Ocean’s Eleven. But he’s also still the same bad boy…

  August 27, 1994 | There was a point in the 1960s when Terence Stamp was an actor on almost every casting director's A-list, and a gossip-column staple as a rogue…

November 3, 2008 | Documentarians Carl Dean and Tia Lessin were all set to make a movie about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – specifically, about National Guardsmen, newly returned from…

May 18, 2004 | The Man With No Name actually had a name - and a nickname - when Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and the Ugly galloped into theaters…

July 16, 2004 |  Omar Sharif is on the phone, calling from his home in Paris - specifically, a suite in the luxurious Hotel Royal Monceau, near the Champs-Elysées – and…

Throughout the many hours of televised tributes to Ronald Reagan that aired in the wake of his passing, I noticed a curious phenomenon: Hardly anyone on any network felt compelled…

September 1, 2004 | Many American actresses might think twice, or even thrice, before signing on to play Becky Sharp, the upwardly mobile anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.…

August 30, 1992 | Just before she began work on The Restless Conscience, her impressively researched and quietly astonishing documentary about the anti-Hitler resistance in Nazi Germany, German-born filmmaker Hava Kohav…

December 3, 2004 | Even after inspiring countless rip-offs and put-ons, not to mention a string of sequels that illustrated the law of diminishing returns, Rocky remains in a class by…