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The release of “Milk,” a film that portrays gay rights battles of 30 years ago, is being complicated by a new culture war over homosexual marriage.
On Friday, Madonna, the singer, and Guy Ritchie, the film director, were granted a preliminary decree of divorce by a London court.
The film and television production company started three years ago by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein has had a hit-and-miss record.
The film and television production company started three years ago by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein has had a hit-and-miss record.
Mr. Gertz was a prolific though often uncredited B-movie composer whose melodies haunt a spate of pictures with words like “Hell,” “Thing” and “Creature” in the titles.
“Special” puts an indie spin on the current Hollywood vogue for moody superhero psychodrama.
Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one.
“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” is quiet, contemplative and impressionistic, which makes the story it has to tell all the more powerful.
When Sissy Spacek speaks her clichéd lines in the mediocre screenplay of “Lake City,” her delivery lends them a resonance that is not in the written words.
In exchange for pictures of hers and Brad Pitt’s new twins, the actress Angelina Jolie got the magazine People to agree to offer positive coverage of her and her family.
Carole Lombard, the beautiful, fearless screwball of her time, gets a retrospective.
“Were the World Mine,” an indie alternative to Disney’s “High School Musical” franchise, is a small, endearing film.
It’s love at first look instead of first bite in “Twilight,” a deeply sincere, outright goofy vampire romance for the hot-not-to-trot abstinence set.
“Bolt” is at once a knowing, satirical sendup of the Hollywood fame-and-fantasy machinery and a sleek product of the Disney-Pixar industrial complex.
Tiny Summit Entertainment finds itself sitting atop one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena of recent years.
Mr. Brecher wrote vaudeville sketches, jokes, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series and screenplays for movie musicals including “Meet Me in St. Louis” and “Bye Bye Birdie.”
Kevin Rafferty makes the case for remembrance and for the art of the story in his preposterously entertaining documentary “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.”
When final weekend box-office figures were reported for “Quantum of Solace,” the movie saw its record-breaking numbers stirred, but not dramatically shaken.
As a new boxed set, “Griffith Masterworks 2,” reminds us, D. W. Griffith is still underappreciated, with much of his work waiting to be rediscovered.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory plans to examine whether the old way of telling stories — particularly those delivered to the millions on screen — is in serious trouble.
“Valkyrie” was conceived as a dramatic showcase for Tom Cruise, as well as a high-profile effort to kick-start United Artists.
Killer Films, the independent company behind “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” has a new backer.
The protean Wallace Shawn, an actor, playwright and emissary from the New York intelligentsia, has a recurring role on the prime-time CW soap opera.
The new James Bond film sold an estimated $70.4 million in tickets at North American theaters, setting an opening-weekend record for the franchise.
Robert Pattinson, the heartthrob star of the coming film adaptation of the vampire romance novel “Twilight,” meets his squealing fans.
The film series Punk ‘n’ Pie, BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, captures on film the world-annihilating rage and pogoing joy of British punk.
Hanging out with Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward Cullen, the handsome vegetarian vampire in the film “Twilight,” which opens Nov. 21.
It may seem like a cheat that the heroes of the first mainstream Bollywood movie to feature gay characters are just pretending, but the decent-hearted comedy “Dostana” deserves credit.
Beyoncé Knowles on her study of the life of Etta James and how it altered the direction of her new album.
Mark Walton, a Disney animator, gives voice to a hamster named Rhino and steals the show in “Bolt.”
Lessons in cross-cultural understanding abound for a the British director Danny Boyle filming “Slumdog Millionaire” in an Indian slum.
“War Child,” a documentary about the hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, is a bit ragged and repetitive.
“The Beautiful Truth” is a documentary about contemporary health hazards and alternative treatments.
Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to “House of the Sleeping Beauties.”
“The Dukes” tastes like pasta sauce that has sat on the shelf long after the expiration date on the can.
“Eden” is a picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop.
A good scolding and a toke on a joint: that’s all it takes to turn the curmudgeonly old folks in “How About You” into goofy pussycats.
The score for the blockbuster Batman movie “The Dark Knight” has been disqualified from consideration for the Academy Awards, Variety reported.
The filmmaker Josh Koury has latched onto a great subject for “We Are Wizards,” his peek at some of the more engaged fans circulating in the Harry Potter world.
Attendance at the American Film Market, which ended Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., dropped about 5 percent, to 7,903 from a record 8,343 in 2007.
After two and a half hours in the thrilling, exhausting company of the characters in “A Christmas Tale,” the intimacy we feel with them is wired with surprise.
“Quantum of Solace” begs the question: Is revenge the only possible motive for large-scale movie heroism these days?
A documentary, more than two years in the making, about President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign is gathering significant interest from international distributors.
In “Dinner With the President” the filmmakers go in search of nothing less than the meaning of democracy in Pakistan.
A British-born producer, Mr. Daly’s credits include “Platoon,” “The Last Emperor” and other Oscar-winning movies.
The film adaptation of Tracy Letts’s play “August: Osage County,” a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner, has been acquired by the Weinstein Company.
A gaudy, gorgeous rush of color, sound and motion, “Slumdog Millionaire” doesn’t travel through the lower depths, it giddily bounces from one horror to the next.
Watching “The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection” is a Proustian experience, yielding wave after wave of memories.
Mr. Chopra found rare success creating both hit Bollywood musicals and dramatic, socially conscious films.
A British-born producer, Mr. Daly’s credits include “Platoon,” “The Last Emperor” and other Oscar-winning movies.
After being shown at Sundance, a short film by a Huntington director will next be screened at the Long Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
The critic John Leonard, who died Wednesday at 69, brought to his work a combination of open-mindedness and skepticism and the willingness to be enthralled and enraged, inflamed and entertained.
Universal Pictures said on Friday that it had acquired the film rights for the Broadway musical “In the Heights.”
“The World Unseen” is a trembling soap of racial oppression and lesbian longing.
Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of several “Saw” sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with “Repo! The Genetic Opera.”
The restlessness and the poetry of Robert Frank permeate the must-see 10-program retrospective, “Mapping a Journey: The Films & Videos of Robert Frank.”
There’s a generally more diverting entertainment waddling along the edges of “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” than the larger one lollygagging on screen.
See the Holocaust trivialized, glossed over, kitsched up, commercially exploited and hijacked for a tragedy about a Nazi family. Better yet and in all sincerity: don’t.
“Otto; Or, Up With Dead People” is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart.
“The Guitar” is an arty parable that suggests a New York bohemian variation on the odious “Bucket List.”
“JCVD” more often aims for a knowing, cerebral mood, allowing its hero moments of moody contemplation.
Uplifting, disheartening, inspiring, enraging — the mind reels while watching the documentary “Pray the Devil Back to Hell.”
“Gardens of the Night” is a harrowing story of kidnapping and forced child prostitution that conjures a world entirely populated by predators and prey.
Judd Apatow neither wrote nor directed “Role Models.” But he might as well have.
The director discusses taking “Frost/Nixon” from stage to screen, how David Frost created “the fourth network” and what would have happened to Richard Nixon in Mayberry.
“Soul Men” is a raucous, rambling comedy, offering some laughs, some groans and a feast for fans of the musical idioms it mocks and celebrates.
A digital restoration of the 10-minute film “Manhatta” breathes new life into the work.
Jean-Claude Van Damme is all washed up, in a meta-movie in which he plays himself.
There is also a deep, blood-soaked, entrail-clogged difference between “Repo! The Genetic Opera” and other musical dramas.
The author, who died on Tuesday, turned out novels that were intricately engineered entertainment systems.
Mr. Crichton wrote the blockbuster science-fiction novels “Jurassic Park,” “The Andromeda Strain” and “State of Fear.”
In a case of reality imitating a liberal talk show, the actor found that his name was not on the voter list at his longtime polling site in Chelsea.
The phrase “divorced couple” sounds like an oxymoron, but there’s really no other way to describe the Dutch ex-spouses whose table talk dominates “Stages.”
Since at least 2004 those latter-day knuckleheads Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the gross-out auteurs of “There’s Something About Mary” and “Kingpin” fame, have been contemplating a movie in which they would upgrade the Three Stooges for 21st-century audiences.
In a case of reality imitating a liberal talk show, the actor found that his name was not on the voter list at his longtime polling site in Chelsea.
A British jury investigating the death of a special-effects technician on “The Dark Knight” was told that he was killed in an accident during the shooting of a stunt.
A new film collection showcases the decorous, paternal authority that Gregory Peck projected over the course of his long career.
Serious-minded Americans love to idealize the French movie industry, but as French cinephiles tend to see it, it’s their own filmmakers who shy away from tough issues.
The central predicament of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” with its eerie prefigurement of the present, provokes a closer look at the crossroads in which culture and finance intersect.
A British jury investigating the death of a special-effects technician on “The Dark Knight” was told that he was killed in an accident during the shooting of a stunt.
Mr. Katselas was an iconoclastic acting teacher whose 30 years in Hollywood raised him to guru status in the eyes of hundreds of actors, many of them famous.
A drive to ban same-sex marriage echoes a fight over homosexual teachers 30 years ago.
David Lindsay-Abaire, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the drama “Rabbit Hole,” will write the screenplay for “Spider-Man 4.
A look at five breakout performances this holiday season, including Alison Pill, Michael Shannon and Alexa Davalos.
God and Satan duke it out for the soul of a young girl in “The Haunting of Molly Hartley,” an unexpectedly cynical addition to the teen-scream genre.
The son of the filmmaker Moustapha Akkad said that a forthcoming movie about the life of the Prophet Muhammad would not be a remake of his father’s 1977 film, “The Message.”
“Frost/Nixon” was supposed to be Peter Morgan’s escape from movies. Then came the film directors.
H. G. Wells predicted it in 1898. But for Hollywood, 1951 was the year that the saucers landed in “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” A remake is set for this holiday season.
Select DVDs for the holidays, including “Sounder,” “Irma Vep” and “Magnificent Obsession.”
The “Twilight” mission: make a film version close enough to satisfy the novel’s ardent admirers.
The elaborate, two-film “Tintin” series planned by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson may find its financiers in a partnership being forged by Sony and Paramount.
“A Christmas Tale,” the new feature by the French director Arnaud Desplechin, is haunted by the ghosts of holiday movies past — and not just the ones you’d expect.
After giving Bond an inner life, in “Quantum of Solace” Daniel Craig sticks him with a broken heart.
The elaborate, two-film “Tintin” series planned by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson may find its financiers in a partnership being forged by Sony and Paramount.
In “Benjamin Button” with Brad Pitt, going from old to young creates its own growing pains.
“Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” in spite of its lewdness, follows a gee-whiz romantic-comedy formula that would not be out of place on the Disney Channel.
In “My Name Is Bruce,” a silly horror comedy that only a cultist could love, Bruce Campbell, the star of countless B-movie thrillers, mercilessly spoofs himself.
With “Splinter,” the director Toby Wilkins honors the conventions of the horror genre with skill and enough wit to keep the scares sharp.
“Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback,” an ambitious but unfocused documentary, bids to immortalize this short-lived if influential group.
“One Day You’ll Understand” contains no great revelations or surprises, but rather is suffused with a quiet glow of sympathy and enlightenment.