Coraline Hits the Screen, Stage and Page
While author Neil Gaiman is perhaps best known for... read more
Conan the Contrarian: How Late Night Revolutionized Comedy for a Redneck
I got a little choked up watching Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Friday night, and not because I was moved to tears by Max Weinberg's feral beauty... read more
On the Waterfront: Kevin Drew Directs Feist in Short Film
Midway into Feist’s 2007 breakthrough album The Reminder is a bewitching ballad called “The Water.” The track moves slowly, as if water itself, and its emotional resonance inspired Broken Social Scene... read more
Salute Your Shorts: Oscar Nominee Rundown
For most of the year short films are pretty much ignored... read more
2009 Oscar Predictions and Proclamations
Fresh off our 25-for-35 Grammy prediction performance a few weeks back, we look to pick some Oscar winners at the 2009 Academy Awards this Sunday... read more
Catching Up With... Danny McBride
Not many actors had a better 2008 than Danny McBride... read more
Che Guevara Hates Steven Soderbergh
You bought the T-shirt—now go see the movie. That’s the logic Steven Soderbergh hopes will draw audiences to Che, his four-hour, Spanish-language revolutionary epic starring Benicio Del Toro... read more
Life Camera Action: Films on Paper
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but when a movie travels from one country to another, the first thing it accumulates is a bunch of them. Words... read more
Catching Up With... William H. Macy
Revered as an actor, respected as a screenwriter and rising as a producer/director, William H. Macy is also what the Rabbi in his newest film might call a... read more
The Notorious M.O.V.I.E.
The black Lincoln Town Car dispatched by the media conglomerate edges into rush-hour traffic with a hired driver, a publicist, a writer and a dude who looks a lot like Biggie Smalls... read more
Catching Up With... Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson may not be a household name, but for a while one of his projects was. Head writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000 for all of its... read more
Catching Up With... Waltz with Bashir's Ari Folman
Writer/director Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir is something... read more
Catching Up With... Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky’s latest film, The Wrestler, is a surprisingly tender portrait... read more
Catching Up With... Arnaud Desplechin
Mathieu Amalric of the latest James Bond film and Catherine Deneuve—of a hundred classic movies—lead the impeccable French cast of A Christmas Tale, the story of the Vuillard family... read more
Catching Up With... Lance Hammer
Lance Hammer's quiet debut film Ballast continues to defy expectations. When we saw it at Sundance earlier this year we felt that it marked a new direction for independent American film... read more
Catching Up With... David Wain
While most people who co-wrote and directed a hit comedy... read more
Life, Camera, Action: Movie Hopping While Rome Burns
David Lynch once called film “a magical medium that allows you to dream in the dark.” Walking the carpeted hallways and miniature lobbies of a Times Square megaplex, then, is like... read more
On Long Island, Memories of Harvey Milk Have Expired
The irony of Bay Shore Furriers and Leather Salon is that, while it’s the only building on the block that survived a fire six years ago, nobody seems to remember the lanky kid... read more
Slavery Doc Takes Musical Approach
The voice on the other end of the line was timid... read more
Signs of Life 2008: Best Film
Check out Paste's top 20 films of 2008... read more
