Had D.A. Pennebaker never done anything but hop a flight to London, 16mm camera in tow, and follow around a scrawny young singer who jousted with journalists, was worshipped as a frizzy-haired god and entertained himself with entourage-fueled shenanigans, he would still have secured himself a place in rock history …
Read More »David Crosby on Looking Back Without Anger in New Doc
Near the end of the new documentary, David Crosby: Remember My Name, the 77-year-old singer looks directly into the camera and makes a startling admission. “I still have friends,” he says. “But all the guys that I made music with won’t even talk to me — all of them. All …
Read More »'The Farewell': Lulu Wang's Truth, Lies, and the Long Goodbye
Lulu Wang was in Berlin in 2013, editing her first film, when she got the call: Her grandmother in China, who’d briefly taken her in when her parents fled the country in 1989, was terminally ill. The family, however, told “Nai Nai” that she was just fine, that the doctor …
Read More »'Game of Thrones': Benioff and Weiss on the Stark Sisters and Ending the Show
Before this season’s debut, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss answered questions by email for Rolling Stone‘s recent cover story on Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner. As the final episode approaches, we’re sharing the entire interview, which they answered jointly. (There were also other questions — on …
Read More »Sex, Drugs, Redemption and Filmmaking: A Candid Conversation With Abel Ferrara
“They’re gonna show the fucking Driller Killer at the fucking Museum of Modern Art, bro!” That’s one of the first things Abel Ferrara says when you meet him, standing in the lobby of the historical institution, flanked by a publicist and someone from the Italian consulate, surrounded by tour groups …
Read More »'Black Panther' Cinematographer Rachel Morrison's Life Behind the Lens
If you’re flipping through Rachel Morrison’s family albums looking for an early glimpse of the groundbreaking director of photography — whose one-two punch of Mudbound in 2017 and Black Panther in 2018 made her the first woman to score an Oscar nomination for cinematography and shoot a superhero film — …
Read More »Rob Sheffield: Luke Perry Walked So Jordan Catalano Could Run
Rest in peace, Luke Perry — you walked so Jordan Catalano could run. The first time most of us saw him, he was bad boy Dylan McKay on the Nineties hit Beverly Hills, 90210, easily the best TV teen drama ever. He was the new kid in town, all smoldering …
Read More »Best Movies/TV to Stream in March: Motley Crue's 'The Dirt,' 'Shrill'
What’s new on Netflix, you ask? How about a too-fast-for-love, no-holds-barred biopic on Motley Crue, actor Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut, Ricky Gervais deciding to tell folks what’s really on his mind (uh-oh) and even more Arrested Development? Or how about the scoop on what’s going on over at Hulu, like …
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