Written in the Stars
The seven-time Oscar-nominated writer-director Wes Anderson has made the funniest, most heartfelt, and most poignant film of his career
Grace Edwards
The young actress steps into Wes Anderson’s pastel world to play a young botanist in Asteroid City
Laya DeLeon Hayes
For her latest role, the young actress stars in The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, a modern twist on Frankenstein
On Targets
In 1968, Peter Bogdanovich directed his first film, about what was then an uncommon event: a mass shooting. It haunted him to the end
The Show Won’t Go On
A screenwriter’s dispatch from the Writers Guild of America picket line
I Don’t Know How She Does It
Sally Wainwright, the creator of the hit British crime drama Happy Valley, captures the female experience like no other
And God Created Brigitte
“Idiotic” is how French bombshell Brigitte Bardot describes a new six-part TV series depicting her life
Beating the System
When every studio in Hollywood passed on Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola—the most successful movie director on the planet—became an independent filmmaker
Nick Pinkerton
A fixture of New York’s downtown film scene discusses writing the script for The Sweet East, starring Euphoria heartthrob Jacob Elordi, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
A Cavalcade of Depravity
Shakespearean actors, Penthouse Pets, 3,000 Roman costumes, 450 gallons of fake blood, and Gore Vidal. Was Caligula the most ambitious porno ever made—or the raunchiest historical epic?
The Many Lives of Alain Delon
Claudia Cardinale, Paul Schrader, Shirley MacLaine, and others reflect on the genius, charm, and enduring influence of an icon of French cinema
Sinqua Walls
For the remake of White Men Can’t Jump, the actor takes on Wesley Snipes’s classic role
India Ria Amarteifio
The star of Shonda Rhimes’s latest, a prequel to her hit Bridgerton series, reveals how she channels Queen Charlotte
Rip-Off
A new documentary reveals how Pop-art founder Roy Lichtenstein made millions, while the comics artists he copied remained penniless. Was he a genius or a thief?
Zoe Lister-Jones
In her new TV series, Slip, the actress, writer, and director plays a woman whose orgasms send her traveling through time
Mise-en-Scène
A new two-part French adaptation of The Three Musketeers, with Vincent Cassel, Eva Green, Romain Duris, François Civil, and Vicky Krieps, brings the classic tale to a fresh audience
Slam Dunk
Ben Affleck directs a career-making film with an unlikely star: a Nike sneaker
The Hits Keep Coming
After the success of Unorthodox, its co-creator Anna Winger returns to Netflix with Transatlantic, a black comedy about World War II–era refugees
Hers for the Taking
Sixteen years after securing the film rights to All Quiet on the Western Front, a former professional triathlete could be on her way to Oscar glory
Working for the Kid
Did Bob Evans save Paramount in the 1970s? You bet your ass he did. So how come the Academy never gave him his due?
Down to Earth
Eight Questions with Scott Z. Burns, a producer of An Inconvenient Truth—not to mention a co-writer of The Bourne Ultimatum and No Time to Die—whose star-studded new show focuses on climate change
Not to Be
High art. Romantic intrigue. Monstrous villainy. The inside story of the original, star-studded—and star-crossed—production of Shakespeare in Love is the stuff of, well, Shakespeare
The Gold Standard
From the peak of Hollywood glamour to snafus, boycotts, and last year’s infamous Slap, the Oscars have seen it all. Are they still worth watching?
Camila Morrone
The young starlet discusses her path from modeling to acting and playing a groupie on Amazon’s Daisy Jones & the Six
