Orson Welles

Producer Jack Douglas on John Lennon: "He was tired of being the fat Beatle"

Jack Douglas has enjoyed a legendary career in music. After starting on Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign, Douglas worked with a Who's Who of rock luminaries, from John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Aerosmith. Last weekend, he was in town recording a new single with The Oddfathers at Terranium Studio, w ... More >>

The Films of Kim Jong Il

You'll love the movies produced by the North Korean dictator. Or else.

Artists of the Year 2011

Alan Moore, Louis C.K., Bethany Larson, and more

David Carr gets kudos in "Page One" N.Y. Times documentary

David Carr gives a stand-out performance.​Congratulations are in order for David Carr, once the editor of the Twin Cities Reader, who keeps clawing his way up the media food chain. Carr beat drug addiction to pen a harrowing memoir. He carved out a media beat at The New York Times. Two years ... More >>

Director Brady Kiernan talks Stuck Between Stations, music, and Minneapolis

Photo by Kris Drake​Local director Brady Kiernan knows how to work. Since finishing his film degree in 2002, he's made his mark on the Twin Cities scene the old fashioned way, through blood, sweat, and skill. Working his way up has paid off with project after project: he's produced multiple ... More >>

Weekend movie guide: See it or flee it?

You've got 10 bucks and two hours, and you don't want to waste any of it. We can help.

Mischke Show Notes: Dec. 15, 2009

Join the conversation with T.D. Mischke on today's 'In The Stream' live from 2 - 3:30 p.m.

Gremlin Theatre

Theater Spotlight: 'Orson's Shadow'

Film Highlight: The Royal Tenenbaums

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood strikes oil, and then some

Roky's Picture Show

Good Clean Smut

The Black Dahlia goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

6/8: Morning Communique

The Kane Mutiny

Oak Street makes an urgent call to the senior 'Citizen'

Brave Old World

First captivated by the radio programs he heard as a kid in St. Paul, Tod Dockstader went on to help invent electronic music--and retire a virtual unknown. Now in his 70s, he's back at it and as daring as ever.

Dig If You Will The Picture

Filmmaker Agnès Varda reads a lot into her work

It's All About Me!

Asia Argento--daughter of Dario--does her daddy proud

Get Me Gwyneth

How to remake the New York Film Festival's arthouse esoterica for the midwestern megaplex

From The Cradle To The Grave--And Back Again

Frank revives a labor cry, 'The Cradle Will Rock'; 'Urinetown' whizzes through town

Into the Maw

Tonight he's gonna party like it's 19-oh-never-mind.

War of the Worlds

Kent Stephens's latest project is a play about a play about a rehearsal of a play about a novel

Real Life Rock Top 10

David Thomas channels the ghosts of Edward Hopper, Orson Welles, and his own past

A Woman's Work is Never Done

Women make up well more than half of the Guthrie's audience, but less than 10 percent of its produced playwrights. Is this a tragedy or a farce?

Carei Thomas Feel Free Ensemble: Mining Our Bid'ness

Heaven Is In The Details

Haynes fakes it so real, he is beyond fake

Robot Wars

Yoshimi battles the pink 'bots while Wayne Coyne struggles against his previous masterpiece

Clawless

Peter Bogdanovich loses it at the movies with 'The Cat's Meow'

Hidden Wonders

An Oak Street series journeys to the secret life of cinema

What Price Dignity?

Dolores del Rio Spent Hollywood's Good Fortune on a Respectable Career

Barbs and Ken: A sleazy celeb funhouse

A Critic's Diaries Spank His Subjects

Movie Matters

After September 11: Projecting the future of entertainment at the New York Film Festival

Falling in Love Again

The alluring "Marlene & Josef" invites us to rediscover a director's desire for his star

Shoot 'Em All!

Apocalypse Now Redux extends an epic allegory of American megalomania into the 21st Century

Auteur Author

The Plaisir Principle

Or, Cannes 2001: How to love the movies without hating yourself

Creation Myth

Thirty-five years ago, a Chicago arts collective charted new territory in black music. Now, in a three-day retrospective, Minneapolis free-jazz explorers Douglas Ewart and Carei Thomas return to that land of possibilities.

The Lost World

Steven Spielberg's debut, The Sugarland Express, captures a humanity from before the age of the blockbuster

Christopher Frayling: Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death

Pictures for the People

A series at the Walker reveals the revolutionary power of Brazil's Cinema Novo

In the Mouth of Madness

Getting Away With It

Constricted by the social taboos of the Eisenhower era, director and master melodramatist Douglas Sirk explored the mores of more

Artists of the Year

The Red Curtain

A new play, "Project 891", puts the spotlight on New Deal theater, HUAC, and the mother of all arts-funding debates.

The Player

From West Bank radical to White House insider, he's remained the most powerful man you've never heard of.

WEB: American Life Histories

Ragged Glory

Losing It at Sundance

The Amerindie film fest continues to inspire madness and money--and occasionally, art.

Citizen Dick