Swan Songs: Celebrating the Oscar Fashion Disaster
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Cover Story: Kathryn Bigelow’s Art of Darkness
In this week’s cover story, TIME looks at the career of Kathryn Bigelow, who made history in 2010 as the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director for The Hurt Locker, and who has followed that triumph with one of …
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Our guide to filling the Twilight void
Tony Kushner on His Lincoln Screenplay, Séances and the Greatest Political Speech of All Time
TIME spoke with the Pulitzer Prize winner on what he learned over the six years he spent researching and honing the blueprint for Steven Spielberg’s film
Daniel Day-Lewis: How the Greatest Living Actor Became Lincoln
The shy, soft-spoken actor on the challenge of portraying a man whom everyone and no one knows at once
The Master’s Joaquin Phoenix on Animal Inspirations, Curb Your Enthusiasm and the Pleasures of Discomfort
“I guarantee if you saw some of the rushes you would think I was the worst thing in the world”
Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care
“I guess if people think they’re worried about you, it’s sweet. It’s kind of odd”
In Praise of Film Critic J. Hoberman
It’s the end of an era for alt-weekly The Village Voice—and the perfect moment to celebrate a great career.
Firth’s Theorem: Awards Season and the Anglophile Biopic
In a recent issue of TIME, we postulated Firth’s Theorem, a simple equation for calculating a movie’s odds of winning nominations and statuettes during awards season. Here’s how it works:
1) Is the movie about famous, …
Shame Director Steve McQueen on Sex and Silence
After his startling debut feature Hunger, a brutal yet poetic evocation of the 1981 Northern Irish hunger strikes, Turner Prize–winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has returned with Shame, a character study that’s at turns explicit …
The Incredible Year of Michael Fassbender
In this week’s Holiday Movie Preview special in TIME, I profiled Michael Fassbender, who’s had an incredible year — playing Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre, Magneto in X-Men: First Class, Carl Jung in David Cronenberg’s A …
Annotated For the People: A Track By Track Look at the New R.E.M. Retrospective
Less than two months after announcing their breakup, R.E.M. is releasing the greatest-hits collection Part Lies Part Heart Part Truth Part Garbage 1982-2011, including three new tracks, “A Month of Saturdays,” “We All Go …
Mark Whitaker Takes A Long Trip Home
In his new memoir, a CNN editor turns his reporting skills on his own family.