Interview

When I met Lena Dunham for lunch in December, she was convalescing from shooting that had run late through the night until early that  BLOG POSTED: 01/07/09

Remember the time that Chuck's dad died in a mysterious, nonsensical car accident? Or when Serena jetted to Argentina with her goateed  BLOG POSTED: 01/05/09

There are some films to which the 70-mm format doesn't add much—seeing them in deluxe projection isn't a significantly different  BLOG POSTED: 12/30/08

June 1977: Interview editor Glenn O'Brien interviews the boss, who created Interview and interviewed the stars.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 12/01/08

There is only one place in the art world where Charles Manson, Gumby, J. Edgar Hoover, a cartoon mouse on acid, surfers, baseball players, homicidal teenage punks, and topless girls could all meet up, and that's in the drawings and collages of this southern California-based artist. His reach has gone way beyond his underground punk-scene beginnings, but Pettibon's still sketching the loveliest misfits.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/30/08

Seven years ago, he played James Dean in a television biopic, tinting his hair and squinting his eyes to Rebel Without a Cause-like perfection. Ever since, the temptation has been to peg him as a good-looking young man felled by the moody blues. while it's a fact of life that no one can ever really know what lies beneath the surface of another, the Internet can help narrow the field of possibilities. Lo and behold, Generalissimo James Edward Franco: a merry prankster, a slayer of hearts, a wooer of minds, and the latest onscreen love interest of Sean Penn.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/29/08

The fair chameleon Ms. Blanchett doesn't have anything against being a movie star. But complaining about the paparazzi, offering empty platitudes about her co-stars, and ruminating on the differences between Los Angeles and New York isn't her game. That's why she's on the cover of our art issue. And because not once in the conversation that follows does she mention the word art. Yet that's what the interview is all about.
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Some people just don't fit the -formula. But then the formula seems somewhat antithetical to what Charlie Kaufman does. As a screenwriter, he is best known for his two mind-bending collaborations with director Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), and another pair of colorfully inventive films with -director Michel Gondry, Human Nature (2001) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). But the 50-year-old Kaufman seems to have saved his trippiest project for himself: His directorial debut, the recently released Synecdoche, New York, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as a theater director whose autonomic functions are, one by one, beginning to shut down as he contends with both his cast and the women in his life, and as he struggles to build a life-size replica of Manhattan as part of his new play.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 11/25/08