Search results for

The star of Friends and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is featured in the new film Numb; he plays a screenwriter plagued by feelings of anxiety, detachment and panic. The story is based on an autobiographical script by Harris Goldberg (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo), who also made his directing debut with the film.

Critic-at-large John Powers reflects on what he thinks is the single greatest movie ever made about the city of Los Angeles — Killer of Sheep, an independent film made in the late '70s by Charles Burnett. It's on the Library of Congress' National Film Registry; it will be showing in selected theaters in the next few months, and it comes out on DVD this September.

Mike White is the Hollywood screenwriter behind hit films including The School of Rock, The Good Girl and Chuck & Buck. Now he has directed Year of the Dog, a "not very funny" comedy about a woman grieving for her lost pet; it stars Peter Sarsgaard and Saturday Night Live veteran Molly Shannon.

Pianist Barry Douglas is working with the Rediscover Northern Ireland project, which seeks to raise awareness about revitalized cities and culture. He's the founder of the Camerata Ireland orchestra.

When the Khmer Rouge carried out the genocide of nearly 2 million Cambodians in the late 1970s, it also nearly obliterated Cambodia's arts and culture. Kong Nay, one of the last living masters of the Cambodian guitar, is trying to keep those traditions alive.

Actress Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter) makes her directorial debut with Away from Her, a new movie based on a short story by Alice Munro; it stars Julie Christie as a woman with Alzheimer's.

The Lookout, a thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, invests more than the usual amount of effort in developing characters. It marks the directing debut of Scott Frank, known for his writing work.

Terry Gilliam's Tideland was panned by film critics and audiences alike when it was released in 2005. But he hopes the disturbing tale of a girl, whose parents are drug addicts, finds an audience on DVD.

Historic buildings in the Islamic world are often covered with breathtakingly intricate geometric designs. Both artists and mathematicians have long puzzled over them, wondering how the patterns were created. A new study suggests the artisans worked from templates that drew upon advanced math principles.

The Lives of Others is set in communist East Berlin in the days before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It focuses on a police captain who is forced to put a wire tap on a famous playwright.