Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts
The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.
Movies
The Duke in His Domain
A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
King of Comedy
The making of Caddyshack.
Dressed to Kill
A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.
Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
A profile of the film critic.
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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.
Oscar Night in Hollywood
As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.
'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.
Spike Lee Wants 'BlacKkKlansman' to Wake America Up
The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism
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?
Enlisting an Audience
How Hollywood peddles propaganda.
Show the Monster
A profile of director Guillermo del Toro.
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.
Timothée Chalamet Has Arrived Right on Time
A star explodes.
Why ‘Black Panther’ Is a Defining Moment for Black America
On Ryan Coogler’s film.
David Lynch Keeps His Head
A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.
The Next Bechdel Test
Twelve new ways of measuring Hollywood’s gender imbalance.
Park Chan-wook, the Man Who Put Korean Cinema on the Map
A profile of the “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” director.
Into The Woods
Moviemaking with the Mulleavy sisters.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "That Dumb Space Movie"
An office Halloween party transforms into a rumination on memories, movies, and sadness.
The Weekly Package
In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.
Interview: Jerry Lewis
An 11-hour conversation about “well, just about everything that’s ever been funny.”
Will the Real Warren Beatty Please Shut Up?
A profile of Beatty on the heels of Bonnie and Clyde.
Fresh Air: Barry Jenkins and Tarell McCraney
An interview with the duo behind Moonlight.
Hollywood's Forgotten Gay Romance
The story of 1982’s Making Love.
