If you bailed on David Milch and Michael Mann's HBO drama Luck after three weeks, I hope you'll catch up with last night's installment, "Both Hands on the Wheel," and reconsider. If, on the other hand, you watched through last night's episode and are sti

Nothing revealed Stanley Kubrick's singular intelligence -- nor his endearing humor and humanity -- more than budgetary decisions. He wore his producer's hat as ingeniously as his director's one, confounding expectations. Before he arrived in New York fo

Today is Monday, Feb. 20, the 51st day of 2012 with 315 to follow. This is observed in the United States as President's Day. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Neptune, Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus and Venus. Tho

Meryl Streep never fails to give convincing performances. HOW do you choose the best Meryl Streep performances? Its like trying to decide what kind of ice cream is best its pretty much always going to be great, and while there may be a couple of flavour

One of the last living goddesses of cinema, hymned by the disparate likes of Mick Jagger, Noël Coward, and John Cheever, Sophia Loren still dazzles at 77. But she’s reluctant to discuss a life in which fame was easier to find than a home and family. In a

On the Cheap listings are compiled by Soojin Chang. Submit items for the listings at listingssfbg.com. For further information on how to submit items for the listings, see Picks. Radical Directing Lecture Series: Shari Frilot San Francisco Art Institute

The second crisis hit when an on-set fire cost another night of shooting, and MGM refused to budget another day. Levinson needed more time. Sova suggested breaking out a second camera in the diner, to speed things up by filming actors on both sides of th

Julianne, 51, is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children, and co-stars with Robert de Niro in a new film, Being Flynn. She became a British citizen last year thanks to her Scottish ancestry. Here, she tells GARTH PEARCE what h

Jesse: Like many kids with BIG personalities, my plan was to be an actor. I studied theatre at CalArts in Valencia, CA for two years then made the big move to Los Angeles to focus on commercial work. I had a little success but nothing on a grand-scale. W

The late Robert Altman, while he was making a movie of Sam Shepard's play "Fool for Love," tried to describe the piece to a reporter. "I'm not going to synopsize it," the director said. "It's not a story, and it's not an idea. It's a painting. It's about

This weekend, the new Denzel Washington action flick Safe House opens, giving him yet another chance to show the world he really knows how to pick a role. In the film, Washington plays a former Central Intelligence Agency operative who has gone rogue and

Pina Bausch was a visionary choreographer whose work might be considered avant-garde but who uncompromisingly addressed the beauty of being human. Among her fans was director Wim Wenders, whose plans to make a film with Bausch took a tragic turn when Bau

It’s an unwritten rule of detective stories that the hero should be past his prime or out of his era. In The Big Lebowski—the Coen brothers’ frayed, inspired spoof on detective flicks and L.A. malaise—Jeff Bridges nails the outsider archetype, portraying

LOS ANGELES, CA (February 09, 2012) – Oscar® winner Jon Voight and Oscar® nominee Elliott Gould are the latest casting additions to the SHOWTIME drama pilot RAY DONOVAN, starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee Liev Schreiber in the title role. Voight wi

The news that Shirley MacLaine is joining the cast of Downton Abbey next season to play Martha, mother of the wealthy American-born Lady Grantham, comes as something of a disappointment to aficionados of the ludicrously popular British TV series. It woul

Countdown, scripted by Loring Mandel, is science fiction only by historical accident; it came out not long before the Apollo 11 mission and imagines a revised scenario for putting a man on the moon. In terms of realistic astronaut movies, it’s the aesthe

1930s rep theatre may be demolished Personal story: the first time I went to the Paradise was to see Robert Altman's Nashville. The print was faded, but watchable; my seat was in rougher shape. The armrest was barely attached to the rest of the chair wit

An environmentalist fairy tale featuring a cynical subtext and a band of great character actors, is a far more entertaining film than anyone would’ve expected. Depicting the true story of three great Whales trapped below the ices of Alaska, director Ken

The Wix Lounge Artist Speaker Series is honored to present photography legend Robert Altman. Enjoy an unforgettable night listening to Robert speak about his photography training with Ansel Adams, how he survived the 60s, his work as a photojournalist fo