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Given its pedigree and subject matter, it's a bit of a surprise that "Staircase" has all but disappeared. Never a truly great...

Throughout most of the 1950s and '60s, Jack Lemmon was a contract player at Columbia Pictures, while Richard Quine was a young house dir...

"All it takes is no talent." -Tessie Tura in "Gypsy" When Harvey Weinstein was running Miramax with his brother Bob, he ...

In her brilliant 1971 essay, "Notes on Hearts and Minds," the late Pauline Kael took on the critical establishment and its seeming...

Word just came in that Stuart Rosenberg died today from a heart attack. One of our more underrated directors, he didn't receive half th...