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As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac and fellow Beats William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Then, as an aspiring filmmaker at RISD—where classmates included future Talking Heads—he was influenced by a visit to Italy, where he watched the Fellini film Casanova and met Pier Paolo Pasolini. The Beat influence can be seen in his first film, Mala Noche (1986), and even more so in Drugstore Cowboy (1989), in which Burroughs portrays ‘T...

The TCM Classic Film Festival is back in Hollywood with a loaded lineup.

Ethan Coen of the Coen Bros is planning his own solo directorial effort following Joel Coen's success with The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Seth Willenson, the influential marketing executive and producer of films and home video,...

Sean Baker's new film asks audiences to consider a singularly annoying character, brought to vibrant life by Simon Rex.

Canadian singer-songwriter, born 1943 From the 1960s onward, Joni Mitchell wowed and confounded the musical world with her compositions, and has become ...

"Sugar Town" knows its characters. It inhabits two overlapping worlds in Los Angeles: the world of people who were famous once, and those who will never be famous but dream of nothing else. "We were all in seminal bands in the '70s and '80s," a middle-age rock musician observes, sadly and defiantly, at a meeting to discuss forming a new band. The problem with being seminal is that you end up in the shadow of your offspring.

Robert Rodriguez was born in San Antonio, TX, on July 20, 1968. When he was in the 8th grade he saw John Carpenters Escape From New York, and immediate...

‘Possession,’ ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ and other classic movies and film festivals streaming online or playing this week at a theater near you.

Edgar Wrights title for his new horror movie Last Night in Soho comes from a song used by fellow filmmaker.