The Polanski Affair
Will American audiences ever see An Officer and a Spy after the exiled director likened his rape case to the anti-Semitic false charges leveled against Alfred Dreyfus?
Here’s to You, Mr. Nichols
Graydon Carter toasts Ash Carter and Sam Kashner at Monkey Bar to celebrate their new oral biography of Mike Nichols
Jurassic Jeff
Goldblum defies his age with a new travel series, another jazz album, a young family, and all those films
The Secret Lives of Patricia Highsmith
Long-hidden diaries reveal the dark obsessions and deep hatreds she drew from to write The Talented Mr. Ripley and other noir masterpieces
Why Talk to a Pariah?
I’ve never met one I didn’t like and I just wanted to understand
There Is Nothin’ Like a Dame
Helen Mirren brings something special to every performance. But for HBO’s Catherine the Great, she also draws on her own White Russian roots
Once More unto the Breach
In Henry V, Timothée Chalamet tries to fill the sabbatons of Olivier and Branagh
Bong Joon-ho
Parasite, the South Korean director’s new film about class warfare, triumphed at Cannes and is generating Oscar heat
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
She goes toe to toe with Eddie Murphy in his new comedy, Dolemite Is My Name
Top Dogs
The comedy show created by Ukraine’s new president skewered Donald Trump
Spoiler Alert
Did the creator of The Crown tell the one who wears it what happens next on the series?
Mein Furor: Germans Not Laughing at ScarJo’s Hitler Comedy
“About as funny as Schindler’s List”
The Trump Mentor
A new documentary takes on the controversial attorney Roy Cohn
Bella Figura
For Italian actress Miriam Leone, it all started with a little black dress
Hail Fellowes, Well Met
The creator of Downton Abbey has lunch with an old flame
Lili Reinhart Grows Up
The Riverdale actress plots her move to the big screen
Blonde Venus
The Swedish bombshell who blew up Italian movies
Next in Line
In Season Two of HBO’s Succession, Sarah Snook proves she’s worthy of the Roy throne
Candice Bergen, Star Reporter
A “very lucky” actor and the photojournalism career that got away
The Story of L
A noted French author reimagines Nabokov’s novel from Lolita’s point of view
Queen of Muses
The always extraordinary Patricia Clarkson on Sharp Objects, portraying difficult characters, and the correct way to make jambalaya
The Id of HBO
Bill Murray had Harold Ramis. Danny McBride has Jody Hill, who discusses the duo’s “misunderstood-angry-man trilogy”
Sapphistry
Something’s wrong with the
depiction of the love affair
in Vita & Virginia
Dave Brown
The Hollywood maverick who hosts a film festival—every single week
