Susannah Buxton spoke with TIME about why it’s easier to create flattering costumes for a scullery maid than for a countess and the perils of working with vintage clothing.
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From Gun-Toting Black Panther to Ivy League Professor
In 1968, Jamal Joseph was a Bronx high-school student on his way to college. But it was the turbulent 1960s and, radicalized by the times, he joined the militant Black Panthers. Joseph’s new book, Panther Baby (Algonquin) tells …
Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All
During the first season of Downton Abbey, the aristocratic Crawley family and their busybody servants endured a succession crisis and the death of a Turkish houseguest. But during the second season they face an even greater …
Q&A: Charlie Brown Christmas Producer Lee Mendelson
This interview originally ran on December 25, 2010.
Lee Mendelson is a first-rate storyteller, which isn’t a surprise seeing as he’s been doing it for more than 50 years. An award-winning television producer, Mendelson is the …
Director Wim Wenders On Filming the Work of Pina Bausch in 3-D
Wenders spent 20 years trying to figure out how he could bring the experience of a live Pina show to the screen. When 3-D returned in popularity, he saw his chance.
Margin Call Director J.C. Chandor on VOD and the Awards Season Hustle
J.C. Chandor nibbled at the edges of the big time for a decade and a half. He directed short movies, commercials, all the things that one days when they’re trying to break through. Then, a few years ago, he found the story he was …
From Baltimore Cop to English Serial Killer
With his portrayal of hard-drinking, womanizing detective Jimmy McNulty on The Wire, British actor Dominic West established himself as something of a charming rogue. In his new film, West goes fully dark as real-life serial …
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 …
Jim Rash On Co-Writing The Descendants and the Future of Community
Earlier this month, the small but rabid fan base of the NBC sitcom Community received some discouraging news: the show will be put on indefinite hiatus after the new year due to low ratings, perhaps never to return. But fans can …
Don’t Tell Ann Patchett That Bookstores Are Dying
TIME loved the novel State of Wonder. We talk to its author about her new venture, Parnassus Books.
Prosthetic Chins and the Bible: Kenneth Branagh on Becoming Sir Laurence Olivier
The actor talks to TIME about what it was like to play the towering star in My Week With Marilyn
Elvish, Klingon and Esperanto—Why Do We Love To Invent Languages?
Invented languages do more than cause lively debates among Star Trek fans. Esperanto, and other international tongues, are meant to repair the plague of Babel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and its ilk help readers escape deep into …
R.E.M.’s Mike Mills on Saying Goodbye After Three Decades
This week, almost two months after their amicable break-up, R.E.M. will release a 40-song retrospective titled R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011. Bassist Mike Mills spoke to TIME about why he …