With his role in the stylish new HBO series Boardwalk Empire, which chronicles the underworld speakeasies, hucksters, and hustlers of Prohibition-era Atlantic City, actor Michael Pitt trades in neo-grunge, art-house, indie-film cultdom for primetime gangster glamour  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/30/10

In Harmony Korine's new film, Trashhumpers, the actual trash-humping is the least disturbing part.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/22/10

Can Shutter Island's crazies live up to the precedent set by Angelina Jolie?  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 02/19/10

The Tribeca film festival took on Doha last weekend. Robert De Niro hosted, and then disappeared into the Arabian night.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/05/09

After a two and a half year restoration and a debut at Cannes, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's classic The Red Shoes arrives at Film Forum.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/03/09

Leonardo DiCaprio is losing his  mind, again. In the new trailer for Shutter Island, his latest  collaboration with director Martin Scorsese (which opens in theaters October 2),  DiCaprio plays a U.S. Deputy Marshall who investigates mysterious happenings at  a mental hospital for the criminally insane and finds himself trapped inside.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/12/09

Tomorrow night the Film Society of Lincoln Center acknowledges 20 years since the passing of co-founder Richard Roud.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/22/09

Although a certain nebbishy auteur has come to stand as the paradigm of the New York director, there are arguably two other candidates well suited for that honor. Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee were not only both raised in the city, but they've built a close friendship while comparing notes over the years.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/25/08