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Joan Didion Knew What Hollywood Would Become
Before the Oscars this weekend, read ‘Play It as It Lays.’
Shilo Brooks
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Things Worth Remembering: The Iranian Movie to Watch This Weekend
If you want some sense of what life’s been like in Tehran—watch the dark and captivating Iranian vampire film, ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.’
Kat Rosenfield
David Mamet: Robert Duvall Was the Best Actor of His Generation
The playwright reflects on the late, legendary lead actor of his ‘American Buffalo.’
David Mamet
Things Worth Remembering: James Van Der Beek Was the Best of Us
The ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star, who died Wednesday at 48, sought to teach his kids “how easy it can be to laugh, to love, to cry, to learn . . .and to find…
Mary Katharine Ham
The Winter Olympics Is the Best Reality TV Show
Plus: Why was everyone naked at the Grammys?
Suzy Weiss
Two Drinks with . . . Michael J. Fox
The Hollywood legend is back acting, playing a character that has the disease he’s been dealing with for decades, and tells Joe Nocera: ‘Fuck…
Joe Nocera
The Bad History of ‘Palestine 36’
An Oscar short-listed film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, rewrites the past to serve a modern political fantasy.
Oren Kessler
Brigitte Bardot Is Dead. Why Are We Scolding Her?
It seems that certain people with certain beliefs must be disposed of carefully.
Kara Kennedy
Chris Christie: Bruce Springsteen Has Done It Again
‘Deliver Me from Nowhere,’ the Boss’s biopic, is like his best work: By being unexpected, it makes you really feel things.
Chris Christie
Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton
When we first met, I thought she was so charming, so beautiful, so magical, that I questioned my sanity. I thought: Was it possible to fall in love so…
Woody Allen
Things Worth Remembering: How to Save All the Lonely People
In 1996, David Foster Wallace tried to explain how technology could destroy us. No one paid attention. But he was right.
Ted Gioia
‘One Battle After Another’ Has a Higher Purpose
The new Paul Thomas Anderson movie is a lot of fun. The America it depicts is not.
Will Rahn
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