Paul Cullum

Photo by Anne Fishbein In Joe Gould’s Secret, the new movie directed and produced by Stanley Tucci and based on two interconnected stories by the great New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, Tucci portrays Mitchell as a laconic Southern gentleman let loose in the Enchanted Forest of 1950s Manhattan. There, in......

”We were not supposed to be credited as directors. But then these two assholes entered the competition in Cannes and were on the front cover of every press outlet in tuxedoes.“ Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, the director of Mifune, the third official release from the manifesto-driven Danish film collective Dogma 95, sounds......

Photo by Debra DiPaoloAT FIRST GLANCE, JAMES MANGOLD seems a paradigm (one of his favorite words) of both the 1970s cinema acolyte and '90s indie-film veteran. He studied postgraduate at Columbia University with Milos Forman, who served the same function for him that John Cassavetes famously did for the young......

photo by Sophie Olmsted A third of the way through Fight Club, Brad Pitt’s Tyler Durden says, "We were raised by television to believe that someday we’ll all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars — but we won’t. And we’re learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed......

Special thanks to Jerry's VideoWHEN I WAS GROWING UP, MY FATHER SOLD SHOES FOR A living. Virtually the only thing I remember him telling me about his work was that nobody ever comes in to buy a pair of shoes -- all they want you to do is sell them......

"Bill, I have seen one or two things in my life, but never -- never -- anything like this." --Todd Field in Eyes Wide Shut   AT THE 11:30 A.M. SHOWING AT MANN'S CHINESE THEATER LAST FRIDAY, YOU could carve the tension with a butter knife. The crowd was jittery......

Photo by Sophie OlmsteadIN TWO DECADES OF MOONLIGHTING from his day job as a screenwriter for entertainments such as Scenes From the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills and A Nightmare on Elm Street, Part 3: Dream Warriors -- between them, a fair assessment of his peculiarly corrosive views on Hollywood......

Photo by Ted SoquiONE OF THE SAVING GRACES OF THE movie business is that no matter how wrong it manages to go, the problem is ultimately the solution. For every bloated $20 million star mucking up the multiplexes, planned obsolescence dictates that a next generation is waiting in the wings,......