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Every Kirsten Dunst Role, Ranked Has any child star of the last 40 years fared better than her?
‘I Don’t Know How Much of It Is Immoral’ Jerrod Carmichael’s surreal new HBO docuseries Reality Show puts all his relationships to the test. He’s still living with the aftermath.
The 12 Best Movies We Saw This Year at SXSW You’ve probably heard of The Fall Guy and The Idea of You by now, but there are smaller titles that shined at this year’s film festival, too.
What Is the Civil War in Alex Garland’s Civil War ? If you don’t want spoilers, but you do want answers, let us explain this movie.
Dev Patel Promises Monkey Man Is the Opposite of ‘Quick-Buck, Mindless’ Action At the SXSW premiere of his electric revenge saga, the first-time director nodded to all his action influences, from Bruce Lee to Jim Carrey.
Rose Glass Gets Down With Dolly Parton The Love Lies Bleeding director can’t get enough of early Dolly, John Waters films, and J. G. Ballard’s short stories.
Oscar Winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph Never Let the Buzz Get to Her Head The Holdovers star poured so much detail into Mary Lamb and that extra effort helped win her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
Julio Torres Wants to Violate Your Dress Code “Wear whatever you want to wear at all times,” says the director and star of Problemista .
The 100 Fights That Shaped Action Cinema Whether the scenes featured fists, firearms, or blades, the result was always the same: The crowd was pleased.
pretty statues
Feb. 16, 2024
When a Tell-All Documentary Is Just Another Press Release These days, docs about pop stars feel publicist-approved — and they always seem to contain the same safe elements.
delusions of grandeur
Jan. 17, 2024
Jake Johnson Turned an Existential Crisis Into His Directorial Debut Inside the former New Girl star’s wild SXSW comedy about a deadly dark-web game.
awards season
Jan. 10, 2024
A Guide to Playing Off Winners at Awards Shows Insiders on the art of telling long-winded celebrities to please GTFO.
‘my mom’s going to kill me’
Jan. 10, 2024
Christine Lahti on That Time She Was in the Bathroom When She Won a Golden Globe She’d wandered to a faraway bathroom. Robin Williams jumped onstage to stall for time. And a stranger in the hallway became a casual hero.
Diane Ladd Answers Every Question We Have About Wild at Heart On working with her daughter Laura Dern, why Blue Velvet made her “angry,” and what she was thinking during that improvised lipstick scene.
Andrew Haigh on the Song That Unlocks All of Us Strangers ’ Ending The director chose to end his new film with Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “The Power of Love” for personal and political reasons.
Alma Pöysti Saw Aki Kaurismäki’s Dog Make Strong Choices in Fallen Leaves The Finnish actress talks her surprise Golden Globe nomination, one-take scenes, and her “very professional” canine scene partner, also named Alma.
screen history
Dec. 20, 2023
How Has Hollywood Dealt With Age-Gap Relationships? The films critics and audiences did or didn’t rebuke tell a fascinating story about what the mainstream deems acceptable.
barbie world
Dec. 15, 2023
The Woman Who Rescued Barbie from Development Hell Mattel executive Robbie Brenner, head of the toy company’s film division, tells us what it took to save the long-gestating adaptation.
needle drops
Dec. 15, 2023
The Science of Scoring Sofia Coppola’s Movies The Priscilla director “has a very precise vision,” according to the band that’s helped bring her musical vision to the screen for two decades.
Timothée Chalamet’s Earliest Directors Knew He’d Be a Star The directors and casting agents who collaborated with him before his star-making role in 2017’s Call Me by Your Name look back at his early promise.
Inside ‘The Simple Life’ 20 Years Later With plenty of feces, feuds, and unforgettable foolery, two socialites changed the nature of reality television.
person vs. persona
Nov. 10, 2023
Dream Scenario ’s Kristoffer Borgli Has a Few Things to Say About Viral FameWith Dream Scenario and Sick of Myself , director Kristoffer Borgli has made two films that might leave you wanting to log off forever.
Making Up Madonna Dance-floor ringmaster, sex provocateur, Earth mother — Madge’s four decades of shapeshifting have been both a blessing and a curse.
Give Fran Lebowitz an Aisle Seat You never know when you’ll need to make a quick escape.
‘it’s giving student film’
Sept. 6, 2023
Fights, Sex, and Self-Laceration: Inside Rotting in the Sun Sebastián Silva and Jordan Firstman play themselves in this hyper-meta satire, and had what Firstman calls “blowout fights” in the process.
and just like that
Aug. 10, 2023
The Best Character on And Just Like That … Is a Dog In praise of the English bulldog who plays Charlotte York Goldenblatt’s prized pooch, Richard Burton.
anonymous in hollywood
July 27, 2023
How Much We Make in Hollywood As the strike stretches on, 19 writers, actors, and crew members shared their hopes, fears, frustrations — and salaries.
here we go again
July 14, 2023
The Battle of Barbenheimer Is Mamma Mia! vs. The Dark Knight All Over Again Veterans of the last time a long, brooding thriller by Christopher Nolan faced off against a colorful, pop-tune-heavy romp weigh in on the parallels.
Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott on Their Dominatrix Thriller The friends talk about their highly choreographed psychosexual farce Sanctuary and their roles in Yorgos Lanthimos’s forthcoming Poor Things .
Revisiting Tina Turner’s Most Fabulous Looks Costume designer Bob Mackie recalls the singer’s iconic style.
Trace Lysette Wishes She Had Something More Hopeful to Say The actress has spent years hoping to land (or just audition for) roles like the one she has in Monica . But it’s been a struggle.
Kathleen Turner Answers Every Question We Have About Serial Mom On defying her agents, hitting Patty Hearst with a pay phone, hating Barry Manilow, and watching Shirley MacLaine eat a staggering number of crabs.
15 Movies We Loved at SXSW These are the ones you’ll want to see later this year.
SXSW Doubles Down on Rachel Sennott With I Used to Be Funny and Bottoms Sennott’s bawdy, chill-girl persona and Kate Berlant–like physicality are a perfect match for the unpretentiousness of SXSW.
Problemista Is So Very Julio TorresThe ex-SNL writer’s directorial debut is the latest A24 crowd-pleaser to light up SXSW.
National Anthem , the Queer Rodeo Drama Making SXSW SwoonOne of the loveliest titles this year’s SXSW lineup has to offer, it’s a Lana Del Rey song in movie form.
Lukas Gage and Zachary Quinto Made a Riotous Gay Comedy About a Dead Body Lukas Gage promises “the world is going to be so shook” when it sees Zachary Quinto in Down Low.
Debbie Harry Answers Every Question We Have About Videodrome The Blondie legend on the “sticky” consequences of dyeing her hair, how James Woods annoyed David Cronenberg, and her work on Tron — whatever that is.
awards season
Jan. 24, 2023
Joyce Carol Oates Sure Tweets About The Fabelmans a Lot For reasons surely unrelated to awards season, the Blonde author has become Twitter’s staunchest critic of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated movie.
Billy Zane Answers Every Question We Have About Titanic The ever-quotable Cal Hockley on flipping that table in front of Kate Winslet, the props he took from set, and inspiring so much hatred.
strange trip
Dec. 19, 2022
25 Years Later, No One Knows Who Spiked the Titanic Chowder Revisiting the great PCP mystery of 1996 with one of James Cameron’s former crew members.
Frances Fisher Answers Every Question We Have About Titanic On the perils of corsets, the doily she borrowed from Prince Charles, and how one really can have too much caviar.
‘a damn good story’
Dec. 16, 2022
Inside Avatar ’s Losing Battle to Beat The Hurt Locker for Best Picture The 2010 Oscars pitted two famous exes against each other in a race studio sources remember as a David-versus-Goliath battle.
jingle bell bop
Dec. 1, 2022
35 Musicians Confess Their Favorite Christmas Songs Annie Lennox loves the Pogues. Santigold loves Otis Redding. Kacey Musgraves loves Kacey Musgraves.
Sandra Bernhard Answers Every Question We Have About The King of Comedy On beating out Meryl Streep for her part, improvising a kidnapping scene, and why Jerry Lewis wrote her an apology letter.
100 days of avatar
Oct. 11, 2022
The Unprecedented Marketing Gambit That Set Up Avatar ’s Success Remember when thousands of us lined up to watch 16 never-before-seen minutes of Avatar at Imax?
Isabella Rossellini Answers Every Question We Have About Death Becomes Her On using a body double, her critique of Madonna’s Sex book, and why she’s glad she missed out on a role in a certain “exploitative” film.
100 days of avatar
Sept. 19, 2022
The Surprising Way Madonna Influenced Avatar Turns out James Cameron’s lucrative blue world got some indirect help from the singer of “True Blue.”
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