Joel Edgerton can't seem to catch a break. The Australian star -- who has watched as Michael Fassbender, Jude Law and Bradley Cooper have dropped out ...
If this were Dutch Masters instead of American Masters, I'd have a box of cigars, gripes Mel Brooks about the enterprise of including a documentary ab...
Knife Fight is about on a level with the kind of comedy that shows up on Lifetime and the Hallmark Channel, with casts full of aging former TV stars. Movies like this give political satire a bad name.
Standing high on a stepladder, Dr. Mehmet Oz addressed the crowd at Le Cirque, at cocktails for Silver Linings Playbook director David O. Russell and his star Robert De Niro.
Barry Levinson managed to teach everyone how effective the found-footage technique can be when it's used as a tool and not a crutch. Somebody had to.
LOS ANGELES -- Barry Levinson, director of such modern American classics as "Diner," "The Natural" and "Rain Man," makes a surprising venture into the...
It was supposed to be a documentary about the dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay. But the material he was reading about the pollution of the bay was too scary. So director Barry Levinson made a horror movie instead: The Bay.
From TakePart's Jon Bowermaster: Born, raised, and still a proud resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson (D...
If that great comedy team were still alive, the routine on our unemployment woes might go something like this.
Another Happy Day, opening Friday (11/18/11) in limited release, is one long wallow in the misery of Lynn, aided and abetted by her family in all its sprawling creepiness.
NEW YORK — Barry Levinson is returning to the diner. The writer and director has revisited his 1982 movie, "Diner," and turned it into a stage ...
I am going to tell you a story. It happened two years ago, but I thought it too strange a tale to tell at the time. But now I wonder.
Barry Levinson directed Ellen Barkin in her breakout role, 'Diner,' nearly thirty years ago, but for the past couple of years she's had a drastically ...
In the artistically vibrant NYC of the 50s, Cassel was an acting student with the famed Stella Adler when he encountered Cassavetes, just six years his senior, a man who'd go on to redefine what independent film could achieve and be.
As the film reveals with each Bronx boy-makes-good anecdote, Jerry Weintraub made it the old fashioned American way: persistence, chutzpah, a knack for making money, and luck.
Sixteen years after the devastating bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, a new film will bring the tragedy back into foc...
If you hear some young, unschooled person say, "Oh, Dustin Hoffman, he played Ben Stiller's kooky dad", point them towards the other memorable characters that more accurately reflect this performer's invaluable contribution to film.
If Matthew Marsden is really honored to hang out with anti-gay, religious-right hate mongers -- and that's who he flew halfway across the country to be with in private -- then he should do it in the light of day.
I've got an idea for how to change independent film and kick-start the kind of serious attention that video-on-demand seems to require. And it all s...
A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.
I am about to do something that, for the most part, is never done. I am going to criticize a critic. Filmmakers are never supposed to respond to a critic about their work. But in this case, I feel compelled.
Communication -- the ability to connect and manipulate -- is perhaps the most interesting part of politics we can observe, and the most frightening.
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Generally Hollywood always looks down on movies with political content. Political content is a kiss of death.
My suspicion is that no Hollywood producer is involved in the McCain presidential run. I say this for a simple reason -- it's badly orchestrated.
