Lee Daniels Reveals His Gritty Vision
Stephen Farber is a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter. He has written reviews and articles on film for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Movieline, Esquire, New York, New West, and many other publications. He has interviewed hundreds of actors, writers, directors and Hollywood moguls for these publications. Farber has written four books on film: The Movie Rating Game; Hollywood Dynasties; Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case; and Hollywood on the Couch.
The Precious mastermind on how a hard-knock upbringing fueled his desire to make the film.
Imagining Precious
David Kaufman is a New York-based journalist who regularly contributes to The New York Times, The Financial Times, Time International and Wallpaper—and is the charming madness behind the blog TRANSRACIAL.
Sapphire didn't want her 1996 book about a teen who endures unspeakable abuse to be sentimentalized.
Telling the Story of Keats' Love Connection
Stephen Farber is a film critic for The Hollywood Reporter. He has written reviews and articles on film for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Movieline, Esquire, New York, New West, and many other publications. He has interviewed hundreds of actors, writers, directors and Hollywood moguls for these publications. Farber has written four books on film: The Movie Rating Game; Hollywood Dynasties; Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego, and the Twilight Zone Case; and Hollywood on the Couch.
Jane Campion's Bright Star, a Cannes favorite, marks the director's return to film for the first time in six years.
Hot-Blooded Horror
Nick Antosca is the author of the novels Midnight Picnic (Word Riot Press, 2009) and Fires (Impetus Press, 2006). His writing has appeared in Nerve, Hustler, The New York Sun, Identity Theory, The Barcelona Review, The Huffington Post, and others. He was born in New Orleans and lives in New York, and his blog is Brothercyst.
Park Chan-wook's new vampire-meets-priest thriller, Thirst, wowed audiences at Cannes and has just hit the States. Nick Antosca talks to the director about how sexy gore can be.
What's in the Fabloids
Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Nicole Kidman's got a baby bump, Brad and Angie may be finished (again!), and Kate hits the beach while Jon says "enough is enough." VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Nicole Kidman may be expecting, In Touch reports, as a small baby bump is now visible on her slender frame. One doctor even places her pregnancy at...
What's in the Fabloids
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Angelina's got a baby bump, Brad eyes other women, Jon and Kate may be divorcing for $10 million, and Mel's pregnant girlfriend is threatening to kick him out. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Poor Angelina Jolie: When she stepped out in a form-fitting Versace gown in Cannes, she sparked baby-bump rumors, yet again. And Star is already pl...
The Hot New On-Demand Indie-Film Network
Peter Osnos is a senior fellow for media at The Century Foundation. Osnos is the founder and editor at large of PublicAffairs Books. He is vice chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, a former publisher at Random House, and was a correspondent and editor at the Washington Post.
As independent-film theaters are increasingly pushed off the cinema landscape by hulking multiplexes, IFC has created an on-demand cable service comprehensive enough to satiate the persnickety film snob in all of us.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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