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One of a tiny few contemporary screenwriters who is as famous and acclaimed as the people who shoot his scripts, Charlie Kaufman conceived three of the most inventive American films of the last decade: Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation.
BY Jason Anderson
Though it most certainly would’ve squashed a lesser actor, the burden of playing the one person who can actually witness a society’s descent into squalour, cruelty and degradation during an epidemic...
BY Adam Nayman
Unfortunately, this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Short Cuts Canada program won’t feature a new film by Knock Knock (Who’s There?) Comedy! members (and former EYE WEEKLY cover boys) ... (1)
Having established himself as one of television’s finest ensemble players on The Office, Rainn Wilson makes his requisite bid for big-screen stardom in The Rocker (see On Screen page 24), in which ...
At 42 years old, Steve Coogan seems as if he’s been around a lot longer than he has. He’s a comedy icon in the UK due to his TV creation Alan Partridge and, recently, the quietly brilliant Saxondale, and genre-bending film work with director Michael ...
The permanently cool cultural icon spoke to EYE WEEKLY about his career and the upcoming Fan Expo.
Bravely serving as one half of the summer movie season’s riskiest pairing, this 24-year-old actor and stand-up comic stars opposite Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder.
Richie Mehta’s Amal, about a Delhi rickshaw driver who becomes the oblivious pivot for high-stakes intrigue involving the cash-mad family of a deceased millionaire, began life as a short story written by Mehta’s brother Shaun. It was adapted into a short ...
Nanette Burstein’s American Teen, which follows four high schoolers in red-state Indiana through an emotionally fraught senior year, is likely to be one of the year’s most successful documentaries. The 38-year-old director (who received an Oscar nomination ...
Julian Jarrold’s adaptation — or reimagination — of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is not likely to be embraced by purists, but it does feature excellent lead performances by some of the best young British actors around. On a recent visit ...