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Sparing you my construction-worker's appraisal of each actress' current state of preservation or decay, I'll just say that the wonder is Cattrall, who's managed to retain her erotic shine from her first film, the 1975 Rosebud, undiminished. The camera examines her face, tracks up her tanned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the City: Kinda Into You | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

I worked out a system where, as I read, I'd highlight different things - descriptions of characters, cool scenes - in different colors. Then I could scan by color for what I needed to find. I'd start sketching real loosely, with pencil on tracing paper. I'd do a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Portrait Artist | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

Aside from being a ferocious fighter, Marulanda also loved to dance and reportedly sired several children around the country. Like Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who himself sired 17 sons by 17 different women) in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Colombia's Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marulanda was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia's Rebel Patriarch Is Dead | 5/25/2008 | See Source »

One big difference between Synecdoche, on one hand, and, on the other, 8-1/2 and other films, like It's a Wonderful Life, where the hero teeters on the precipice of suicide, is that Kaufman's movie doesn't send in the clowns, or dispatch a bumbling angel, But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally! An Instant Cannes Classic | 5/24/2008 | See Source »

Havel is famous in the Czech Republic for his understatement. But his friends and colleagues know him more as a behind-the-scenes master of ceremonies. In Leaving, for example, he includes himself in the play not as a character but as a kind of chorus. Interlaced throughout the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freed from Power, Havel Mocks It | 5/23/2008 | See Source »

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