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Arts Movies & TV

He's Still Chevy Chase (And You're Not)

The roast where Chevy Chase learned that everyone hates him.

Daniel Fierman Entertainment Weekly Aug 2004 Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Last, Disposable Action Hero

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

Alex French New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 15min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Comedy First

A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.

Tad Friend New Yorker Apr 2004 30min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Deep Inside Baz Luhrmann’s Creative Chaos

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

Amy Wallace New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Mia's Story

“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”

Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Nov 1992 40min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

So Money

An oral history of Swingers.

Alex French, Howie Kahn Grantland Jan 2014 Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

"Hoop Dreams": An Oral History

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

Jason Guerrasio The Dissolve Jan 2014 1h Permalink

Arts Tech Movies & TV

How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood

Unpacking the 76,897 micro-genres that make up the cinematic DNA.

Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Arts Crime Movies & TV

Drugs, Diamonds, International Intrigue — You Won't Believe Two Hollywood Producers' Crazy Backstory

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jan 2014 20min Permalink

Arts Crime History World Movies & TV

The Defense of a Jewish Collaborator

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Mark Lilla New York Review of Books Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Playboy Interview: Mel Brooks

A comic who had previously refused to discuss his private life opens up for the first time, riding high on the surprise success of Blazing Saddles more than thirty years into his career.

Brad Darrach, Mel Brooks Playboy Feb 1975 1h20min Permalink

Reprints Arts World Movies & TV

Peter O'Toole on the Ould Sod

After two years of filming Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole returns to his childhood home in Ireland.

Plus: 50 years later, Gay Talese remembers the late Peter O'Toole.

Gay Talese Esquire Aug 1963 15min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Where It Hurts

On director Steve McQueen and his film 12 Years a Slave.

Dan P. Lee New York Dec 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Animals Were Harmed

An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.

Gary Baum The Hollywood Reporter Dec 2013 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Robert Redford's Restless Solitude

“The only problem is he was so successful that Hollywood decided to devour his Xanadu, with premium vodka parties and assistants scouring the Park City Albertsons for Fiji water. ‘It makes me fucking nuts,’ says Redford.”

Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal Nov 2013 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Slouching Toward Hollywood

Wes Anderson, the Wilson brothers and Bottle Rocket.

Matt Zoller Seitz Dallas Observer Sep 1995 35min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Camera's Cusp

Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón and his four years of production on Gravity.

Dan P. Lee New York Sep 2013 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Daniel Radcliffe’s Next Trick Is to Make Harry Potter Disappear

The world’s most famous child star grows up.

Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 25min Permalink

Arts Media Movies & TV

How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

A profile of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who last January received “a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.”

Peter Maass New York Times Magazine Aug 2013 30min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Call Him Money: Eddie Murphy Opens Up

An interview with Murphy at the apex of his power, just before the release of Harlem Nights.

Bill Zehme Rolling Stone Aug 1989 30min Permalink

Arts Tech Movies & TV

Scandals of Classic Hollywood: The Ecstasy of Hedy Lamarr

“Let me say that again: Hedy Lamarr, arguably the most glamorous star of the pre-war period, also helped invent your cell phone and WiFi connection.”

Anne Helen Petersen The Hairpin Aug 2013 25min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

'You're Done Banging Superheroes, Baby'

Meet Mark Millar, the brains behind our era’s most violent, ingenious comics.

Abraham Riesman The New Republic Aug 2013 10min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Nuke the Cat!

Script doctor Damon Lindelof explains the new rules of blockbuster screenwriting.

Scott Brown New York Aug 2013 15min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

2001: A Space Odyssey — Discerning Themes Through Score and Imagery

A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”

J. Maynard Gelinas Underground Research Initiative Jul 2013 1h30min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

The Pixar Theory

Making the case that all Pixar movies exist on a cohesive timeline in the same universe dominated by a central theme: the battle between animals, humans and machines.

Jon Negroni jonnegroni.com Jul 2013 20min Permalink

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