In the age of the cell phone, in which every public space buzzes with the conversation of strangers, is it any surprise that a silent movie has captured the public imagination? On Tuesday "The Artist," a silent movie about the transition to sound, was nominated for 10 Oscars.
A star from Oscar-nominee "The Artist," Uggie the dog is the talk of Tinseltown. CNN's Becky Anderson reports.
Actress Michelle Williams talks to Piers Morgan about how emotional it was for her to play Marilyn Monroe.
Martin Scorsese's "Hugo," with 11 Academy Award nominations, and Golden Globe winner "The Artist," with 10, lead the list of best picture Oscar contenders announced Tuesday.
"Yes, but what was the best film for grown-ups?" a friend asked me when I told him "Hugo" was my favorite movie of the year.
A mysterious mechanical man with the ability to write and draw holds a place of honor in "Hugo," Martin Scorsese's exquisite adaptation of Brian Selznick's magical, award-winning children's book "The Invention of Hugo Cabret."
The first rule for any critic must be: Keep an open mind. The second rule: Hope for the best.
Two things we won't miss from this summer: the heat and the lack of quality television.
TLC brings to television a show detailing the life of a polygamist family in Utah.
There's some quacking on the web that film auteur Christopher Nolan's current blockbuster, "Inception," was inspired by, of all things, a 2004 Donald Duck comic book.
Take your thumb and hold it out directly in front of you, away from your face. Now close the left eye. Open it and close the right eye.
Former Lucchese crime family "wise guy" Henry Hill isn't surprised by allegations this week that a major New York crime family ran an underage prostitution ring.
CNN's Ralitsa Vassileva talks to the author of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and two of the stars of the upcoming movie adaptation.
Martin Scorsese found himself scaling rocks early one morning while making his latest movie, psychological thriller "Shutter Island."
'Shutter Island'
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Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Kingsley on "Shutter Island" at the Berlin Film Festival.
Bruce Willis and stars walk the red carpet at the premiere for "Cop Out" in New York.
CNN's Neil Curry on the relationship between two Hollywood heavyweights: Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Could insanity be contagious? Marooned on an island with only the criminally insane for company, how long before you doubted yourself?
"Not only do they look alike, they are lively and warm," observes Roberta Armani
They don't wear masks or capes, but the filmmakers behind the World Cinema Foundation are arguably the superheroes of film.
Martin Scorsese on the World Cinema Foundation and his work in preserving classic films from around the world.
Guests at the show will get a $500 goody bag
After taking fewer risks in an uncertain economy, Hollywood is hoping this year's crop of sequels, remakes and CGI spectaculars will be safe bets at the box office.
Charlie Chaplin shorts to Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns this month The Screening Room focuses on film restoration.
The actors join a star-studded list of presenters at the awards show
Two titans of showbusiness have come together in a perfect pairing: The Rolling Stones, the world's greatest band, play two nights at New York's intimate Beacon Theatre; capturing the night on camera is celebrated film director, Martin Scorsese.
Social networking, Martin Scorsese and cinema classics on demand: this is the enticing mix on offer at new movie Web site The Auteurs.
Could Joe Jonas, Justin Timberlake, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio or Robert Pattinson be a big screen Ol' Blue Eyes?
Johnny Depp, Megan Fox, Sting and Eva Longoria plus more will present awards
Young heartthrobs are the latest additions to the star-studded night
Time.com: Ebert on Scorseseupdated: Wed Oct 29 2008 19:00:00
Scorsese By Ebert is a film-by-film chronicling of the professional, yet passionate, relationship between America's top critic and one of his favorite directors
This month it's all about killer attitude.
The actor dishes about their on their onscreen lip-lock in The Wackness
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This list isn't just about soundtracks or great music in the movies -- it is about quintessential movie moments where a song flawlessly complements or enhances the action.
Music: it's an essential part of a director's armory, providing an aural canvas that enhances and underlines the visual effects on-screen.
We all have our favorites for the big honors at Hollywood's top awards show, but over its 80-year history there have been some classic films, performers and people behind the scenes that have been criminally overlooked by Oscar.
The Rolling Stones announced Thursday they have signed a deal to release the soundtrack to their Martin Scorsese-directed concert film through Universal Music Group
You voted: he won. Revered by the masses of moviegoers worldwide, it came as no surprise that Martin Scorsese ("Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," "The Departed") topped the Screening Room's "Directors Cut" poll.
Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and now ... Madonna.
This year's recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, which were handed out in a glittering ceremony last night in the nation's capitol, is quite the list of luminaries. Making up the talented quintet are: Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Academy award-winning director Martin Scorsese, singer supreme Diana Ross, actor-comedian Steve Martin and pianist-conductor Leon Fleisher, whose story of losing the use of his right hand was told in the 2007 Academy Award-nominated short subject documentary, "Two Hands."
Todd Haynes's fictionalized version of the icon's life is a compendium of not-so-hot ideas. But Cate Blanchett does a great Dylan
Rachael Ray has a real-estate deal cooking in the Hamptons.
Having spoken to the Godfather himself, CNN decided to respect the family of gangster movies. Here's our top 10 favorite mob-related flicks -- as well as the ones we'd like to see sleep with the fishes.
SI.com: Measuring desireupdated: Tue Feb 27 2007 11:31:00
The biggest question NFL teams struggle with exiting the combine? How much these top prospects, 21-year-old kids, are going to be changed by money. JaMarcus Russell, from working-class Mobile, Ala., has never had the kind of money he's about to get. Ditto Calvin Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Joe Thomas.
After losing out five times, director Martin Scorsese was awarded his first Oscar on Sunday for his mob informer movie "The Departed."
Like a potential hit movie, the 79th Academy Awards come equipped with any number of promising storylines.
Talk about musical chairs.
"Babel," the intertwined, cross-cultural story of desperate people in three far-flung parts of the world, led all films in nominations for the 64th Golden Globes, picking up seven nods Wednesday.
New York is an instantly recognizable brand -- the ultimate distillation of metropolitan living and the imperial city of American capitalism.
The life of Jesus has always provided controversial subject matter for filmmakers.
What goes around comes around. No filmmaker is more movie-savvy than Martin Scorsese, and he, in turn, has influenced a whole generation of directors around the world.
New York is an instantly recognizable brand -- the ultimate distillation of metropolitan living and the imperial city of American capitalism. Hyperactive, hysterical and self-obsessively hip, nowhere else has been so mythologized by popular culture. Entire musical genres -- disco, punk and hip-hop -- were shaped there. The sidewalks, subway and skyline have inspired a lifetime of work by Gothamite auteurs such as Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. That creativity reflects New York's restless kinetic energy. Everyone here is making something, whether it's money, music or margheritas. The huddled masses these days are more likely to be stockbrokers crammed on a downtown train, but nowhere in the world can match New York's diversity. Wave after wave of immigrants have adopted corners of the city as their own, creating an interlinked patchwork of communities representing virtually every country and culture on earth. New Yorkers may be infamous straight talkers with an inflated sense of their own importance, but
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Angus Young, lead guitarist of AC/DC, tops Maxim's list of the "25 greatest short dudes of all time," standing tall at 5 feet 2 inches.
showbuzzupdated: Wed Sep 28 2005 12:45:00
Are Ben and Jen expecting a girl?
Two former New York City police detectives accused of being hit men for the Mafia were each indicted Wednesday on another murder charge in the 1986 killing of a jewelry merchant.
There's a reason certain stars get eight figures to appear in a film, and it's not talent.
Miramax's PR approach to its Oscar hopefuls has always been pretty simple -- loudly insist a movie is brilliant until people start to believe it.
showbuzzupdated: Tue Apr 12 2005 13:47:00
A recent close call with paparazzi at a traffic light in Beverly Hills gave Jennifer Lopez "goosepimples."
The Oscars this year seem to have inspired more yawns than awe, particularly when it comes to best picture.
Movie screens across the country lit up in 2004 with some exceptional films and dozens of outstanding performances, some of which are now up for Academy Awards.
The late, lamented Spy magazine used to have a "critic" named Walter Monheit, a probably fake personage famed for providing ridiculously hyperbolic blurbs for anything that rolled off the Hollywood assembly line.
Oscar gave wings to "The Aviator" on Tuesday, with the film earning 11 nominations -- including best picture -- to lead the pack for the 77th annual Academy Awards.
showbuzzupdated: Wed Jan 19 2005 10:01:00
Martin Scorsese has been working on a film about Bob Dylan for two years and there's one important person he hasn't spoken to about it: Bob Dylan.
Two years ago, Martin Scorsese won the best director Golden Globe for "Gangs of New York." However, the directing Oscar that year went to Roman Polanski -- who wasn't even nominated for a Globe -- for "The Pianist."
The Golden Globes celebrated Hollywood's time-tested veterans and its more youthful side for the 62nd annual edition of the awards show Sunday.
It's always a great party -- even if its influence is debatable.
Amid all the big hits, sequels and comic-book-inspired capers, one trend ruled the year: the biography film.
At an age when many toddlers are confined to playpens drinking from sippy cups, Alan Alda was hanging out with comedians and strippers backstage in a burlesque theater.
"The Aviator" is the perfect melding of talent and material. Who could be better than director Martin Scorsese to bring the story of Howard Hughes' Hollywood years to the big screen? Scorsese is not only a certified genius in the art of filmmaking, he's also one of the world's foremost film historians.
There's Hollywood, and then there's Hollywood.
"Sideways," the story of two men grappling with maturity, led the Golden Globe nominations Monday morning, picking up seven nominations, and Jamie Foxx earned three acting nominations, including best lead actor in a musical or comedy for his performance as Ray Charles in "Ray."
The studios are rolling out their big guns, and no wonder: It's December.
American Express has tapped comedian Ellen DeGeneres and actor Robert DeNiro to star in one of its largest advertising campaigns in recent years, said a newspaper report Friday.
"Shark Tale" is a fine kettle of fish that should be irresistible to anyone who loves movies, while also offering some interesting subtext giving the feature an extra little bite.
showbuzzupdated: Wed Sep 15 2004 13:54:00
Apparently, a couple Bradys didn't own any exercise equipment.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
This year, for some reason, conventional wisdom has settled early on several favorites for the 76th annual Academy Awards, scheduled for Sunday.
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Fortune: FORECAST: BOFFO!updated: Mon Sep 20 1993 00:01:00
How many moviegoers will line up for The Age of Innocence, this fall's most heavily hyped film? For Columbia Pictures, which sank $30 million into this literary period piece from director Martin Sc...
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