It’s montage season. Here’s one for your consideration.
From Gravity to All Is Lost, some of the year’s best films were stories of solitary souls
Brian D. Johnson on desperate people trying to save themselves
Hollywood’s Everyman tests his limits in ‘Captain Phillips’
Brian D. Johnson’s latest dispatch from the Croisette
The all-American movie star talks Yeats, Hollywood and the lost conscience of America
Ben Affleck, who directs and stars in Argo, isn’t the only one in Hollywood to double dip
The State Department apparently saw little to be excited about. The Liberal party is carefully neutral. John Bennett welcomes the news. Nebraska’s governor is disappointed. Mitt Romney is shocked. Newt Gingrich is displeased. John Boehner is sad. Robert Redford is happy. Politico pronounces victory for both Democrats and Republicans.The New York Times editors praise the President’s decision.
Book by Michael Feeney Callan
With Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Robert Redford on the fade, there’s a new actor-director in town
From the Summer ’09 Newsmakers family edition