James Franco Channels James Dean...Again
James Franco's presence in the art and literature worlds revolve around an obsession with masculine youth in all its angsty, confused and violent glor...
James Franco's presence in the art and literature worlds revolve around an obsession with masculine youth in all its angsty, confused and violent glor...
David Kersh | Posted 05.06.2012
You say to yourself, upon watching a Rebel Without a Cause after so many years, this time around with your middle school sons, that there is no better way to convey coolness and compassion.
Posted 01.12.2012
Speculation over the true nature of James Dean's sexuality has, of course, been rampant among movie critics and fans for decades. But now, a new biopi...
Posted 01.03.2012
From the slick noir of Melvillie's Le Samourai to Drive's homage to new wave, style can be just as important to films as narrative itself—sometimes ...
Posted 11.30.2011
James Dean died in a car crash on September 30, 1955, while on his way to Salinas, California, for a car race. At only 24 years old, he had already ma...
Katie Halper | Posted 10.04.2011
This is a leaked list of the ten movies the GOP is screening to make sure they stay on the offensive, as they fight for the wealthy and attack middle and working class people.
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.29.2011
Who's speaking for the majority of Republican voters in the budget debate? Only Sen. Bernie Sanders, Socialist from Vermont. Sanders has unequivocally said that he won't support a deal to raise the debt ceiling unless it includes higher taxes on on the rich.
Posted 08.10.2011
In between his movies, his stint on "General Hospital" and getting his PhD at Yale, James Franco has also found the time to collaborate with his frien...
The Independent | Posted 07.30.2011
James Franco's metamorphosis into a modern-day Renaissance man has been unstoppable. An actor with a gamut of Hollywood films to his name, he has writ...
ARTINFO | Posted 07.18.2011
How meteoric is actor James Franco's art career? This meteoric: mere months after having his first solo gallery show at Berlin 's Peres Projects follo...
Posted 07.11.2011
A young James Franco's first mainstream success came with his hauntingly real, Golden Globe-winning portrayal of worldwide icon James Dean. Now, a bon...
Posted 05.25.2011
James Dean's short life is now known perhaps more in legend and lore than solid fact, but even he had a secret no one knew. Except for Elizabeth Taylo...
Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
A fun new book, Location Shooting in Los Angeles, written by Marc Wanamaker, Karie Bible and Harry Medved, provides a delicious historic photo-tour...
Carine Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011
When you make your living in the arts--whether that's on the creative front or the business end--, it's safe to say that you are probably open to all kinds of veerings off the path to pay the bills.
Kim Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011
Any black Camaro transports me right back to those nights, and the images flicker in my head like a movie, furthering my understanding of why I co-mingle cinema and classic cars and maybe even sex.
B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011
The significance of every generation will be examined, interpreted and reinterpreted, but in reality, the distinctions between them aren't so clear.
Posted 04.10.2012