Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challe….

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashe….

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promis….

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form..

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future..

The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscu….

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space..

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them..

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other w….

It rekindles the great Hollywood romances..

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him..

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist..