Everybody's Got One: The Home of Tim Grierson

Yesterday, Michael Douglas turned 70. A few years ago when he was diagnosed with cancer, reaching 70 didn't seem very possible. Happi...

He's a man of mystery who lets his movies speak for him. He made two films in the 1970s, none in the '80s, one in the '90s, an...

With his acclaimed Cannes hit Mr. Turner on the way, writer-director Mike Leigh is the latest subject of "The Greats," my ongo...

When I started "The Greats" last summer for Paste , I'm sure some people wondered when I'd get around to devoting a col...

When I write my column "The Greats," which is about Hollywood's living legends, I try hard not to make the essays sound lik...

He made Don't Look Back . (Purists, of course, call it Dont Look Back .) He made (with his wife, Chris Hegedus) The War Room . In bet...

In honor of this Friday's release of Jersey Boys , I devoted my latest installment of "The Greats" to Clint Eastwood. Fun f...

What exactly does a film editor do? I try to answer that question by devoting the latest edition of my Paste column "The Greats...

Tomorrow, Jean-Luc Godard's latest, Goodbye to Language , premieres at Cannes. Today, I salute the one-of-a-kind filmmaker in my late...

One of the all-time great cinematographers, Gordon Willis, died yesterday. The loss is immense. The Godfather films and many of Woody Al...

You know his scores: Star Wars , Jaws , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Raiders of the Lost Ark . For my recurring column "The ...

He's won two Oscars. He's a beloved Hollywood figure. So why does Dustin Hoffman still think he's ugly? My latest installment...

"I don’t consider myself a great actress. I’m just trying to stay alive, actually." That's what Lauren Bacall had to say ab...

My latest installment of "The Greats" for Paste pays tribute to William Goldman. He's the screenwriter behind All the Pres...

Julie Christie, the rumors are true. And now that I've made the obligatory reference to the Yo La Tengo song , I can tell you that my...

God bless Randy Newman. For my latest installment of "The Greats" for Paste , I turn my attention to the superb songwriter and ...

Martin Scorsese received his 11th and 12th Oscar nominations for The Wolf of Wall Street . (He's up for Best Director and Best Pictur...

How do you solve a problem like Robert De Niro? For two decades, he was easily one of our finest actors. But since then? Much harder to b...

I very much enjoyed writing about cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond for my column "The Greats" over at Paste . His legacy speaks ...

Harrison Ford's career has been adrift for at least a decade, but he rebounds somewhat with his strong supporting work in Ender's...