From Porn to the Multiplex
Glenn Kenny was a senior editor and chief film critic for Premiere magazine from 1996 to 2007. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, FIlm Comment, The DGA Quarterly, and other publications. He writes about film for the website The Auteurs' Notebook and blogs at Some Came Running.
Porn megastar Sasha Grey goes mainstream, starring in Steven Soderbergh's Girlfriend Experience. She talks to Glenn Kenny about dirty films, sexual existentialism-and turning 21.
Outing Sanctimonious Celebs
Caryn James is a cultural critic for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Marie Claire and The New York Times Book Review. She was a film critic, chief television critic and critic-at-large for The New York Times, and an editor at the Times Book Review. She is the author of the novels Glorie and What Caroline Knew. As a film commentator, she has been a guest on Charlie Rose, Today, CBS Sunday Morning and MSNBC.
A hot new documentary by Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson tackles the ugly truth about celebrities' misguided political interventions.
The Week in Culture
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From prima ballerinas to "It actresses," Waiting for Godot to the Ring cycle, a look at what happened this week in art, dance, music, and pop.
With the world apparently falling apart (Pandemics! Economic collapse!), Samuel Beckett's existential masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, has suddenly ...
Whatever Works with Larry David. I thought it was awesome. It was classic Woody Allen-Larry is basically playing the traditional neurotic Woody character, but he's great. The writing is razor-sharp. Evan Rachel Wood is a vision.
Bobby Farrelly is a film director, screenwriter and producer. He has worked alongside his brother Peter to write, produce, and direct several comedy films including: There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, Shallow Hal, Me, Myself and Irene and Stuck on You. Farrelly is an executive producer of The Lost Son of Havana, which premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. He is currently working on The Three Stooges starring Jim Carrey, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro.
Tribeca's Sexiest Films
Darrell Hartman writes about movies for Interview magazine and Artforum. He is also a regular contributor to Style.com, Travel + Leisure, Art + Auction, and New York magazine.
From Steven Soderbergh's controversial Girlfriend Experience to a chilling documentary about the mortgage bubble, the six movies generating buzz at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Still in a League of Her Own
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
Now appearing in her first independent film, Geena Davis speaks with The Daily Beast's Rachel Syme about young Brad Pitt, growing older on film, and a Thelma & Louise sequel.
I recommend Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience. It's a really interesting, well-told, well-acted character study about a call girl (and no, not Ashley Dupré). It stars an adult-film star who does some wonderful acting in the f...
Jane Rosenthal has produced over 30 movies, including Meet the Parents, The Good Shepherd, About a Boy, Analyze This, A Bronx Tale, Rent and Wag the Dog. In 1989, Rosenthal co-founded the Tribeca Productions film studio with actor Robert De Niro. She also co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival with Robert DeNiro.
Inside the Shakeup at Sundance
Sharon Waxman is the author of the recently-released book Loot, an award-winning journalist, and a former correspondent for The New York Times. Waxman is the editor-in-chief of her blog, Waxword, and is preparing the launch of a new online news network covering entertainment, The Wrap News, in January 2009. Her current book, Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World, will be published by Times Books in November 2008.
Amy Kaufman is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. A former reporter for The Wrap, she has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
Geoff Gilmore, the longtime director of the Sundance Film Festival announced he was leaving to run the rival Tribeca. Will Robert DeNiro's festival finally eclipse Robert Redford's?
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.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
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.
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