Philip Seymour Hoffman

In a Chicago Tribune advance story on the new Goodman production of The Long Red Road , the play's director, Philip Seymour Hoffman, explains why he chose to mount the work's world premiere here rather than at his home base, the LAByrinth Theater Company in residence at New York's Public Theatre.  

I think the movie is funny and there is a lot of funny stuff in it, but I wouldn't call it a comedy because when you think of me in a comedy you would think of a different kind of movie than this movie actually is.  

Jack Goes Boating is a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples.  

Documentaries "Inside Hana's Suitcase" and "Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg," the Israeli drama "For My Father" and Australian claymation "Mary and Max" are among the highlights of the 2010 Jewish Film Festival (JFF). The JFF runs from Sunday, June 13 to Thursday, June 17, at Landmark's Plaza Frontenac Cinema, with 16 films - nine narrative features and seven documentaries - from countries around the world. The films range from light-hearted and family-friendly to searing and adult-oriented and the features inclu  

Last month while finishing a list of my 1,000 favorite films for a forthcoming collection, I was shocked to discover I'd forgotten to include Alain Resnais' Night and Fog. If I'd been working on the list a few days later, when I attended a press show of the soon to be rereleased The Battle of Algiers (1965), which I hadn't seen in decades, I probably would have included that as well. In my 20s I thought the film was important for its radicalism; today I find it impressive for its evenhandedness. Some film  

Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) gets things done. The ambitious 24-year-old has been given a career-making assignment. His mission: Fly to London and escort an uncooperative rock god (Russell Brand) to the world famous Greek Theatre in Los Angeles for a huge comeback concert.  

Other movies will be released between now and next year, we guess, but the only one that really raises our Thetan levels is Paul Thomas Anderson's as-yet-untitled, Philip Seymour Hoffman–starring Scientology movie . As such, we are duty bound to inform you that, according to Production Weekly (via the Playlist ), Amanda Seyfried, Emma Stone, and True Blood 's Deborah Ann Woll are all being considered for the role of Elizabeth, the daughter of Hoffman's cult-leading character in the film. (Last week, PW cl  

LIKE many actors, Ewen Leslie is unassuming off stage, perhaps even a little shy. He certainly bears no resemblance to the blood-stained, unsettlingly charismatic monster he summons for eight exhausting performances a week on the Melbourne Theatre Company stage. He is at present playing the title role in Richard III in a production by MTC's artistic director Simon Phillips that has gained almost unanimously ecstatic reviews.  

Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is in negotiations to reunite with Bennett Miller ('Capote') in 'Moneyball,' based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis.