Around here, we occasionally find it useful to remind guys why the tuxedo exists. Basically, it’s a sartorial straight jacket designed to keep guys’ flamboyance in check, giving the ladies room to strut their stuff—at the opera, over dinner at … read more →

In the mid ‘90s, Vietnamese-born writer/director Tran Anh Hung, already nominated for an Oscar for his 1993 film The Scent of Green Papaya, wrote a letter to Haruki Murakami asking if he could adapt the Japanese author’s hugely successful coming-of-age … read more →

When Oscar-nominated screenwriter Bruce Robinson turned to directing (Withnail & I ), he created an enduring classic by satirizing the drunk and doleful thespian’s life he’d been living during swinging 1960s London. But his dealings with Hollywood in the subsequent … read more →

Hollywood’s award season comes to a close Sunday night with the 83rd edition of the Academy Awards. So, while we’re scrambling to our local cinemas trying to catch up on the nominated pictures, we’ve also got our eyes focused outside … read more →

Setting aside whether middle-aged men who regularly find themselves in the vicinity of a camera ought to dabble in sack suits, this pic of Aaron Sorkin–taken at yesterday’s Academy Awards luncheon in Hollywood–provides a fine occasion to address the topic … read more →

In Bullitt, ne plus ultra in the adrenaline-fueled cop drama department, the British-born director Peter Yates—who passed away Sunday at age 81 after a long battle with illness—created the most famous car chase in cinema history and laid a template … read more →