Sam Kashner
A Cinematic Séance
Peter Bogdanovich interviewed all the greats, from Hitchcock to Tarantino. Now you can hear the top filmmakers of the 21st century commune with the giants of Old Hollywood
Swan Song
Truman Capote’s social suicide by novel: the story behind the new mini-series Feud: Capote vs. the Swans
In Search of Misspent Youth
Hormones, horsepower, and hamburgers: the making of American Graffiti
Good Help Is Hard to Find
Joseph Losey and Harold Pinter’s cult masterpiece, The Servant, turns 60
From The Office to the Lab
Lee Eisenberg knows funny. But he and his wife, Emily Jane Fox, learned a lot working together on Lessons in Chemistry
The Riling Class
Before the British Invasion, there was the satire boom. Its ground zero was a grotty strip joint turned nightclub in Soho that Peter Cook re-christened “the Establishment”
Bigger than Life
Tragedy! Triumph! Tinsel! One hundred years of the Hollywood sign
Exiled in Style
Picasso, Chaplin, Churchill, Woolf—they all came to Villa Mauresque, in Cap Ferrat, W. Somerset Maugham’s well-appointed refuge from England’s sodomy laws
Beauty Secrets of the Dead
Everybody who’s anybody—including fictional characters such as Succession’s Logan Roy—stops in at Frank E. Campbell’s eventually
Lighter than Air
Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short, “The Red Balloon,” is high art for all ages
Life Imitates Bruce Wagner
The true oral history of a fake oral history—and an audiobook that would make Pirandello proud
Dreams in Progress
A new book celebrates Hollywood’s greatest behind-the-scenes photographer
Take a Seat!
Ann Getty’s storied tabletop collections are ripe for the bidding at Christie’s
Meditations on Crime
Listen and Read
The Flight of the “Concordski”
The espionage and secret history behind the Soviets’ attempt to build their own Concorde
The Spruce Deuce
Before Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, there was Howard Hughes and Jean Peters
Before January 6, There Was Seven Days in May
J.F.K. was haunted by the book that outlined how a right-wing coup could happen in America. The movie still rivets audiences
Oscar Season
Mad, sad, and legendarily bad, Oscar Levant was the showbiz answer to Oscar Wilde. After being forgotten for decades, is Hollywood’s greatest wit ready for his comeback?
Hall of Mirrors
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley—now showing in glorious black and white—is a throwback to Hollywood’s golden era, and a film for our times
Hall of Mirrors
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley—now showing in glorious black and white—is a throwback to Hollywood’s golden age, and a film for our times
His Last Picture Show
My Year with Peter Bogdanovich
The View from Here
Beloved by Kurt Vonnegut, Groucho Marx, and Sidney Namlerep, S. J. Perelman re-invented American humor