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Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi bring their Burt Bacharach homage…
Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi bring their Burt Bacharach homage…

'The Look of Love' comes to BAM for a four-night run starting March 20 — just don't call it a jukebox musical.

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‘You’re gonna get wet’: Drag insult comic Bianca Del Rio comes …
‘You’re gonna get wet’: Drag insult comic Bianca Del Rio comes …

Del Rio performs at the Kings Theatre in Flatbush on Thursday, February 29.

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Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson Takes on Amazon with new show…
Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson Takes on Amazon with new show…

The comedian performs as gay cosmopolitan Buddy Cole in this biting satire, coming to City Winery on Friday.

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‘The Warriors’ at 45: Filmmaker Walter Hill discusses his New Y…
‘The Warriors’ at 45: Filmmaker Walter Hill discusses his New Y…

'I wanted to make it about class,' Hill says of his gritty Homeric ode to New York (and gangs) of the 1970s.

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June Squibb on Being a Breakout Sundance Star at 94 for Thelma:…
June Squibb on Being a Breakout Sundance Star at 94 for Thelma:…

Thelma star June Squibb is the breakout star of Thelma at 94. She and Thelma director Josh Margolin discuss acting and Tom Cruise.

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Takashi Yamazaki on the ‘Striking’ Connection Between Godzilla …
Takashi Yamazaki on the ‘Striking’ Connection Between Godzilla …

Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki discusses the relevance between his monster movie and Oppenheimer concerning the atomic bomb

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Telling a Bigger Story
Telling a Bigger Story

By Joshua Encinias If you grew up on the Gulf Coast, chances are you visited Fort Pickens, Fort Barrancas, Santa Rosa Island or Pensacola Pass, whether for a s…

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A Hometown Show Away from Home
A Hometown Show Away from Home

Comedian and musician Whitmer Thomas hoped Gulf Shores would welcome him home with open arms. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles to become an entertainer, and mont…

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Phil Thomas Katt and the Uncharted Zone
Phil Thomas Katt and the Uncharted Zone

The reports of Phil Thomas Katt’s (PTK) death were greatly exaggerated. It was 1986, and the eccentric Pensacola-based musician with jet-black hair was about t…

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Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Long Marria…
Drive-Away Dolls: How Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s Long Marria…

How Tricia Cooke and Ethan Coen collaborated on Drive-Away Dolls, a lesbian road trip movie decades in the making.

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John Woo: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
John Woo: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

As John Woo celebrates his 50th year as a director in 2024, he can look back on an unrivaled action career that includes classics like The Killer, Hard

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Bruce Vilanch resurrects Paul Lynde for Christmas, and other hy…
Bruce Vilanch resurrects Paul Lynde for Christmas, and other hy…

The iconic comedy writer returns with 'Making the Yuletide Gay: A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas.'

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Ridley Scott: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Ridley Scott: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker

Ridley Scott graces Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker as he celebartes the release of his latest, Napoleon.

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With Rustin, George C. Wolfe Brings a Civil Rights Hero Out of …
With Rustin, George C. Wolfe Brings a Civil Rights Hero Out of …

You might not know a thing about Bayard Rustin, the architect of the 1963 March on Washington that brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream”

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Eli Roth Q&A on Thanksgiving, ‘the Only Critic That Matters,’ a…
Eli Roth Q&A on Thanksgiving, ‘the Only Critic That Matters,’ a…

Thanksgiving director Eli Roth is known for merciless horror, but he has his limits. He'll peel the skin off a diner employee’s face — as happens in the new

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Ridley Scott Q&A on Making Napoleon — the Story That Eluded His…
Ridley Scott Q&A on Making Napoleon — the Story That Eluded His…

Ridley Scott interview about Napoleon, his relationship with Stanley Kubrick and William Friedkin, and telling a story Kubrick never could.

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With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne Gets to Make His 1970s Movie
With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne Gets to Make His 1970s Movie

Alexander Payne doesn't just set The Holdovers in the 1970s — he made the film as if he was filming it in the bygone decade.

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Judd Apatow on Please Don’t Destroy, documentaries, nepo babies…
Judd Apatow on Please Don’t Destroy, documentaries, nepo babies…

The comedy kingmaker talks with Brooklyn Magazine about producing Please Don’t Destroy’s new movie for Peacock.

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Godfrey Reggio Enlists Mike Tyson to Save the World
Godfrey Reggio Enlists Mike Tyson to Save the World

Godfrey Reggio calls on Greta Thunberg and Mike Tyson to save the world in Once Upon a Time, the latest film by the Koyaanisqatsi director.

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Star Man: A conversation with Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge
Star Man: A conversation with Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge

DeLonge, back on the road with Blink-182, has released a movie about aliens; 'Monsters of California' is out now

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Parker Posey talks ‘Party Girl’ and ‘Beau is Afraid’
Parker Posey talks ‘Party Girl’ and ‘Beau is Afraid’

The indie darling opens up about her work past and present: ‘Until our dying day, we will always be struggling or wanting.’

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Arcade Fire’s Will Butler went solo and picked up some sisters …
Arcade Fire’s Will Butler went solo and picked up some sisters …

Will Butler + Sister Squares' debut album drops on Friday, and the band will play Elsewhere on Saturday night.

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From Britney to Basquiat to Sandler to Chappelle: How Tamra Dav…
From Britney to Basquiat to Sandler to Chappelle: How Tamra Dav…

13: The Musical director Tamra Davis has directed iconic films, and worked with everyone from Britney to Basquiat to Sandler to Chappelle to Cher.

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The irony and the elegance of ‘The Inspection’
The irony and the elegance of ‘The Inspection’

Elegance Bratton’s semi-autobiographical film debut explores chosen families and unpacks his experience serving in the Marines.

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Walter Hill on Making the Unwoke Western Dead for a Dollar
Walter Hill on Making the Unwoke Western Dead for a Dollar

Dead for a Dollar director Walter Hill says the film honors Western traditions, while addressing modern issues — but in 1897 terms.

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John Carpenter on Halloween Ends, Music v. Movies, and a Thing …
John Carpenter on Halloween Ends, Music v. Movies, and a Thing …

John Carpenter says he never imagined the Halloween franchise he created lasting this long, but praises Jamie Lee Curtis and the director of Halloween Ends.

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Halloween Ends Director David Gordon Green on Killing Your Expe…
Halloween Ends Director David Gordon Green on Killing Your Expe…

Halloween Ends director David Gordon Green says he wasn't interested in a "final showdown-type brawl" between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers.

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Tulsa King Boss Terence Winter on Finding the Real Sylvester St…
Tulsa King Boss Terence Winter on Finding the Real Sylvester St…

Tulsa King showrunner Terence Winter wouldn't usually do a Western. But a mob Western with Taylor Sheridan and starring Sylvester Stalone?

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Meet the team that makes Wes Anderson movies look like Wes Ande…
Meet the team that makes Wes Anderson movies look like Wes Ande…

Producer Jeremy Dawson, set designer Adam Stockhousen and collaborator Jake Perlin take us behind the scenes of ‘Asteroid City.’

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Bones and All Star Taylor Russell Doesn’t Want Easy or Gentle R…
Bones and All Star Taylor Russell Doesn’t Want Easy or Gentle R…

Taylor Russell says making Bones and All, co-starring Timothée Chalamet, “was not the easiest and most gentlest of processes.” It’s not a complaint.

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Bones and All Director Luca Guadagnino on Love, Steven Spielber…
Bones and All Director Luca Guadagnino on Love, Steven Spielber…

Luca Guadagnino on Luca his new films Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams and Bones and All, starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as cannibal lovers.

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For ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner Jinkx Monsoon, everything is at…
For ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner Jinkx Monsoon, everything is at…

‘The damage has been done and now the queer community is fighting every single day,’ Monsoon says ahead of her Brooklyn show.

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Jesse Eisenberg and Finn Wolfhard on the Fake Generation Gap an…
Jesse Eisenberg and Finn Wolfhard on the Fake Generation Gap an…

When You Finish Saving the World director Jesse Eisenberg and star Finn Wolfhard discuss the fake generation gap and poetic masturbation.

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We Gently Interrogate Poker Face Creator Rian Johnson, Laid-Bac…
We Gently Interrogate Poker Face Creator Rian Johnson, Laid-Bac…

Rian Johnson reveals how Poker Face, his new Peacock series starring Natasha Lyonne, plumbs his love for '70s detective. We're far from Glass Onion.

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Skinamarink Director Shares the Tragic Loss Behind the Horror P…
Skinamarink Director Shares the Tragic Loss Behind the Horror P…

Skinamarink director Kyle Edward Ball discusses the tragic loss of his friend and collaborator Josh Bookhalter during the making of the film.

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A Thousand and One Director A.V. Rockwell on Her Stunning Story…
A Thousand and One Director A.V. Rockwell on Her Stunning Story…

A Thousand and One, the directorial debut of A.V. Rockwell, is a survival story of a single mother protecting her son as gentrification pushes them from

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Fire Island Director Andrew Ahn on His Gay Pride and Prejudice
Fire Island Director Andrew Ahn on His Gay Pride and Prejudice

Fire Island filmmaker Andrew Ahn on adapting Pride and Prejudice, hesitation, visual influences, and the art of gay stuntwork

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner Sasha Colby Shares Her Favorite Stori…
RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner Sasha Colby Shares Her Favorite Stori…

Sasha Colby’s interest in movies started at a young age. Long before she won Season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Colby was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness — which

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Ray Romano on His Somewhere in Queens Inspiration: ‘It’s All Re…
Ray Romano on His Somewhere in Queens Inspiration: ‘It’s All Re…

Ray Romano was sad — sad because his youngest son, Joseph, was near the end of his high school basketball career. He was a star athlete, and the Everybody

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An adaptation of ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ written in Brooklyn and …
An adaptation of ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ written in Brooklyn and …

"I have seen lives destroyed in the wake of closeted, married gay men," says Ashley Robinson about the urgency of his adaptation.

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Car Seat Headrest returns with a furrier fanbase
Car Seat Headrest returns with a furrier fanbase

The indie rockers, led by frontman Will Toledo, are bringing a bit more individuality to the Brooklyn Magazine Festival Friday.

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In Blue Beetle, Xolo Maridueña and Ángel Manuel Soto Tell a Mag…
In Blue Beetle, Xolo Maridueña and Ángel Manuel Soto Tell a Mag…

Blue Beetle — a big-budget superhero movie that just may point the way forward for the whole DC Universe — owes its existence in part to the Sundance Film

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A devilish director gets his due: John Waters on 50 years of ci…
A devilish director gets his due: John Waters on 50 years of ci…

'John Waters: Pope of Trash' opens at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on September 17.

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James Austin Johnson: New kid at the Rock
James Austin Johnson: New kid at the Rock

SNL will return with many of its top cast-members leaving the show and on the eve of the midterm elections. Get used to seeing this guy.

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Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan decode ‘The Sign in Sidney Bru…
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan decode ‘The Sign in Sidney Bru…

"It's a very provocative play": An interview with the stars of the revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s final opus, currently running at BAM

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Sylvester Stallone on ‘Tulsa King’: ‘If it bombs, I know I have…
Sylvester Stallone on ‘Tulsa King’: ‘If it bombs, I know I have…

The icon discusses acting more like himself onscreen for the first time — and reminisces about ‘Lords of Flatbush,’ 50 years on.

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