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Movies & TV

Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts

The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.

David Marchese New York Times Magazine Jul 2021 30min Permalink

Best Article Arts Movies & TV

The Duke in His Domain

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.

Truman Capote New Yorker Nov 1957 55min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

King of Comedy

The making of Caddyshack.

Kate Meyers Golf Digest May 2004 20min Permalink

History World Movies & TV

Dressed to Kill

A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.

Melissa Fyfe The Sydney Morning Herald Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Best Article Arts Movies & TV

Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

A profile of the film critic.

Chris Jones Esquire Mar 2010 30min Permalink

Best Article Reprints Arts Movies & TV

The Great Escape

How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran. The declassified story that became Ben Affleck’s Argo.

Joshuah Bearman Wired Apr 2007 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Oscar Night in Hollywood

As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.

Raymond Chandler The Atlantic Mar 1948 15min Permalink

'Some of Us Have Got to Die'

What the 1949 film Twelve O’Clock High still tells us about air combat and the burden of command.

John Fleischman Air & Space Oct 2018 20min Permalink

Movies & TV

Spike Lee Wants 'BlacKkKlansman' to Wake America Up

The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism

Rembert Browne Time Aug 2018 15min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Death in the Snow

In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?

Paul Berczeller The Guardian Jun 2003 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

Enlisting an Audience

How Hollywood peddles propaganda.

Amos Barshad The Outline Mar 2018 10min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Show the Monster

A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.

Daniel Zalewski New Yorker Jan 2011 50min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "Love Story In a Movie Theater Where a Loud Man is Smoking a Cigarette"

A theater as the scene of escalating events.

Daniel Paul Necessary Fiction Feb 2018 Permalink

Movies & TV

Timothée Chalamet Has Arrived Right on Time

A star explodes.

Daniel Riley GQ Feb 2018 20min Permalink

Movies & TV

Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America

On Ryan Coogler’s film.

Carvell Wallace New York Times Magazine Feb 2018 15min Permalink

Best Article Movies & TV

David Lynch Keeps His Head

A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.

David Foster Wallace Premiere Sep 1996 45min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Next Bechdel Test

Twelve new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.

Walt Hickey, Ella Koeze, Rachael Dottle, Gus Wezerek FiveThirtyEight Dec 2017 10min Permalink

Movies & TV

Park Chan-wook, the Man Who Put Korean Cinema on the Map

A profile of the “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” director.

Alexander Chee The New York Times Style Magazine Oct 2017 15min Permalink

Movies & TV

Into The Woods

Moviemaking with the Mulleavy sisters.

Ann Friedman California Sunday Sep 2017 10min Permalink

Fiction

Fiction Pick of the Week: "That Dumb Space Movie"

An office Halloween party transforms into a rumination on memories, movies, and sadness.

Lucie Britsch Vol. 1 Brooklyn Aug 2017 10min Permalink

Media

The Weekly Package

In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.

Kim Wall Harper's Jul 2017 Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Interview: Jerry Lewis

An 11-hour conversation about “well, just about everything that’s ever been funny.”

Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2011 25min Permalink

Arts

Will the Real Warren Beatty Please Shut Up?

A profile of Beatty on the heels of Bonnie and Clyde.

Rex Reed Esquire Feb 1967 40min Permalink

Arts

Fresh Air: Barry Jenkins and Tarell McCraney

An interview with the duo behind Moonlight.

Terry Gross Fresh Air Oct 2016 30min Permalink

Arts

Hollywood's Forgotten Gay Romance

The story of 1982’s Making Love.

Kate Aurthur Buzzfeed Feb 2017 30min Permalink

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