Article: 10 actors turned directors
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Robert Redford
Article: Robert Redford explains his “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” role
He plays “the head of S.H.I.E.L.D.”
Article: Hollywood’s top 10 maverick directors
Hollywood demands plenty from directors. In a forest of remade classics, “Chipmunks” sequels and other safe, dependable investments, studios want bankable reasons to invest in innovation. Indie filmdom has long been a launchpad for Hollywood careers, but only a select few filmmakers can claim to have gone against the grain with enough force to change…
Article: Brit Marling compares upcoming films “The East” and “The Company You Keep” to Occupy protests
Depending upon the outcome of the Occupy Wall Street protests occurring across the nation, we’ll likely see Hollywood’s take on the 99 percent’s uprising at some point in the near future. But while films like “The Dark Knight Rises” considered attempting to tap into the civil unrest, at least one upcoming indie has already been…
Article: “Another Earth” star Brit Marling talks working with Robert Redford in “The Company You Keep”
It’s been a big year for indie darling Brit Marling. Not only did she break out onto Hollywood’s radar at Sundance in January with the two films she starred in and co-wrote, “Another Earth” (out on DVD now) and “Sound of my Voice,” but she’s also solidified herself as an actress to be reckoned with.…
Article: A baseball movie All-Star team
Tonight is baseball’s annual All-Star game and to honor the occasion The Wall Street Journal put together their own all-star team, a sort of fantasy fantasy baseball roster: the greatest fictional ball players in movie history. You should go over and check out WSJ.com for the whole roster but I’ll say this for the piece’s…
Article: Going Nowhere
Of the forgotten nonpareils to have been found by DVDing in the neglected, semi-seen recesses of Luis Buñuel’s world-class filmography, none may seem odder than “Death in the Garden” (1956). A semi-Marxist workers’ rebellion drama that segues into a lost-in-the-wilderness survival adventure? Shot in Mexico with a famous French cast (Simone Signoret, Michel Piccoli, Charles…
Article: “He Doesn’t Have My Permission to Die Yet!”: Twelve Evil Movie Wardens
Nobody wants to go to jail. But if you’ve got to go to jail, just hope you don’t do it in the movies. Odds are if you’re going to movie jail, you’re going to wind up at the mercy of some jerk warden (or captain or superintendent or game show host of a dystopian future)…
Article: “Boy A,” “The Unforeseen”
The British have a thing about underage sociopathy — we in the U.S. will puzzle and wonder as a culture about the latest school shooter or the very occasional death-metal bogus-ritual killing, but in tabloid-crazy England a news story of a child murdering a child pinches very powerful nerve endings, and the social wound of…
