Reel Treasure
Anthony Quinn, Gregory Peck, and Omar Sharif battle it out in the forgotten film version of an Emeric Pressburger novel
A “Modern-Day Casablanca”
How Miami Vice brought Hollywood-size ambition to the small screen—and sold a lot of Ray-Bans
The Dame with the Game
She stole Christopher Nolan, wooed Tom Cruise, and had Ice Cube praising the size of her cojones. How Donna Langley became the most powerful woman in Hollywood
The Lie Before Christmas
The Holiday, starring Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, and Kate Winslet, has become the quintessential yuletide film—but it’s built on a web of lies and deceit!
Gracie Lawrence
The 27-year-old Sex Lives of College Girls actress has a second life as a musician, which includes opening for the Rolling Stones
The Rare Eccentricity of Isabella Rossellini
Daughter of Ingrid Bergman, face of Lancôme, and now a farmer, the Italian actress reflects on the unexpected joys of aging and being nepo-baby royalty
King of the Costume Drama
Amid constant fights, infidelity, and financial woes, James Ivory and his partner, Ismail Merchant, created the most elegant films of the era
Payal Kapadia
The first female Indian director to win Cannes’s Grand Prix discusses her childhood in Mumbai and her film All We Imagine as Light
Spies Like Us
With Michael Fassbender heading up a starry cast that includes Richard Gere and Jeffrey Wright, can The Agency match its peerless French forebear, Le Bureau?
The Payday of the Jackal
When Frederick Forsyth wrote his groundbreaking thriller, he had no idea how successful—or how enduring—his tale of an assassin would be
The Exploding Archival Inevitable
Paul Morrissey—overseer of Andy Warhol’s Factory, manager of the Velvet Underground, and cult director—saved everything. AIR MAIL takes an exclusive look
Malcolm Washington
The Spike Lee protégé and son of Denzel Washington directs an adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Piano Lesson
The High Priestess of Grind House
Stephanie Rothman was a rare female director in 1970s Hollywood. What kept her from following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese?
Mekki Leeper
The Emmy-nominated Jury Duty and Sex Lives of College Girls actor stars in the new mockumentary sitcom St. Denis Medical
Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
With Catastrophe, Divorce, and now Bad Sisters, Sharon Horgan is the queen of depicting women in frantic disarray
Back to the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal transformed the thriller genre—and inspired real-life assassins. Now it gets a 21st-century makeover with Eddie Redmayne in the title role
Lashana Lynch
The James Bond and Marvel actress now stars alongside Eddie Redmayne in a remake of The Day of the Jackal
In Defense of Cruising
William Friedkin saw the film, which starred Al Pacino, as a breakthrough for gay representation in Hollywood. Gay activists disagreed
Rivals Laid Bare
The jodhpur-ripping, high-camp romp was as much fun to film as it is to watch
Boffing for Britain
The new, high-camp TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals sticks two fingers up at today’s sexless puritanism
From Russia with Lust
Sean Baker’s latest film, Anora, was a hit at Cannes and is now drawing Oscar buzz. How did he make sex work so respectable?
From Russia, with Lulz
Mark Eydelshteyn landed his first English-speaking role with a very unusual audition tape
A Lotta Ins, a Lotta Outs, a Lotta What-Have-Yous
The origin—and immortality—of The Big Lebowski
Frank Sinatra Gets Whacked
Martin Scorsese’s gritty biopic of Frank Sinatra has been shelved. Was it the singer’s family, or Gen Z’s lack of interest, that killed it off?
