Fearless
October 29, 1993 | In the opening moments of Fearless, a deeply affecting and profoundly unsettling new film by Peter Weir (Witness), we are plunged into the story with a disorienting…
Love At Large
March 30, 1990| Filmmaker Alan Rudolph is a dreamy, deep-dyed romantic, as anyone who has seen Choose Me, Trouble in Mind or Made in Heaven can readily testify. His moody meditations…
Black Beauty
July 29, 1994| There have been many other film and TV versions of Black Beauty, Anna Sewell’s much-loved tale of a noble horse and the people who gallop in and out…
James Carville on “The War Room”
March 3, 1994| Never mind the nifty reviews and the Oscar nomination. As far as campaign strategist James Carville is concerned, the most amazing thing about The War Room is, people…
Harrison Ford on “Sabrina”
December 10, 1995 | Harrison Ford is alone in the posh Manhattan hotel suite, unfettered by handlers or retainers, standing near a picture window that overlooks Central Park. He smiles warmly at…
Beetlejuice
March 30, 1988| Three years ago, director Tim Burton startled audiences with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, a brightly-painted swirl of cartoonish lunacy. But now it’s clear that bizarre comedy was a mere…
Dave
May 7, 1993| If filmmaker Frank Capra had never existed, film critics would have had to invent him, if only to describe a particular type of savvy, satirical but basically soft-hearted…
Dick
August 4, 1999 | What was the Committee to Re-Elect the President? Why were people so concerned about an 18 ½-minute gap on a White House audiotape? How did G. Gordon…
Ed Wood
October 7, 1994 | Edward D. Wood Jr. — war veteran, Hollywood fringe-dweller and uncloseted cross-dresser — wanted to make movies in the worst way. Unfortunately, that is exactly what he…
Bob Woodward on ‘Wired’
August 21, 1989 | “John Belushi,” says his biographer, Bob Woodward, “really was representative of the ‘70s, in that period of excess. In that excess of excess. “If you attempt to…