Smut and Vinegar
One company’s mission to restore vintage pornography and rare genre films gives new meaning to the word “artisan”
A Vlog to Remember
Anne Frank’s diary is retold as a YouTube video about a teenager in hiding from the Nazis
Can Normal People Make It on TV?
Fans worship Sally Rooney as the voice of a generation. But will her best-seller translate to TV?
All Hail Tiger King!
It’s the strangest, weirdest documentary in ages—and in this strange, weird moment gives us what we crave: fun
Drawn and Quartered
On the 40th anniversary of Yes Minister, the wickedly great caricaturist looks back on the creation of those iconic opening credits
Nu in Town
Eli Rosen, Hollywood’s Yiddish consultant, on the set of Unorthodox in Berlin
Screen Time
The shows to watch in the coming weeks, from a rejuvenated take on Project Runway to an L.A. detective series
Rub Your Tummy, Mr. Blofeld?
Is Daniel Craig the world’s oldest rent boy, or just promoting the new (and rescheduled) James Bond?
Back to the Drawing Room
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes on why his new period drama, Belgravia, is darker than its predecessor
Return of the Puppet Masters
Satire reborn: Spitting Image will be back. Stars, politicians, and royals beware
Lexi Underwood
The 16-year-old Little Fires Everywhere actress isn’t like the other girls
Too Close for Comfort
In HBO’s The Plot Against America, from the Philip Roth novel, the present-day parallels are profoundly disturbing
Disney’s Real Wizard
In his 15 years running the company, Bob Iger brought many prizes into the fold: Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel. One of his other brilliant moves was bringing in Alan Horn
Suicide Watch
Caroline Flack, the engaging former host of Love Island, is the third person from the show to kill herself. Beneath the Botox and bikinis lie some dark secrets
The Picture of Greed
Michael Winterbottom’s new film is an unsparing portrait of a ruthless fast-fashion billionaire
Josh O’Connor
Between seasons of The Crown, on which he plays Charles, the actor stars in Emma, in theaters now
La Dolce Vitae
Federico Fellini began recording his dreams around the time he was working on La Dolce Vita. On the centenary of his birth, diary sketches illustrate the filmmaker at his most personal
Elizabeth Woodward
The documentary filmmaker, whose latest project was short-listed for an Academy Award, on the importance of privacy in our data-crazed world
Call Me!
American Gigolo swaggered into theaters 40 years ago this month and forever rocked the worlds of film, fashion, music, and sex. An oral history
Smokin’!
Coming off A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper will portray Leonard Bernstein in a Spielberg-and-Scorsese-backed production
Elle Accuse!
Protesters vow to disrupt France’s Oscars after Polanski is nominated for his Dreyfus film
Cinema Paradiso
In her debut movie, Gianni Agnelli’s granddaughter tells the story of an eccentric family in early 1990s Italy
The Godfather of Comedy
After The Death of Stalin and Veep, Armando Iannucci brings a new comedy to HBO, and a new David Copperfield to the screen
All Fact-Checked on the Western Front
How much in Sam Mendes’s film 1917 is actually true?
