It's a long way from MASH to Ocean's 13, but Brooklyn's own Elliott Gould is still in the game, doing everything from the voice of God in the animated Ten Commandments to a forthcoming movie called The Deal, in which he shares the screen with William H. Macy and LL Cool J. The six-time host of Saturday Night Live was back in town over the weekend for the premiere of The Caller at the......

It's that time of the year again: When Hollywood honors its moviemaking the way it knows (and not always in equitable ways, given that Alfred Hitchcock nor Robert Altman, to name a few, have never won Directing Oscars) and America gets to watch hours of pre-show hosted by idiots. Giving commentary for Gothamist this year, Karen Wilson, Margaret Harper, and Jen Chung. 7:06PM First thoughts: Gael Garcia Bernal is so cute. Ryan Seacrest is an......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap, the Motor Vehicle Accident Edition: A police car MVA in Queens, a serious MVA in Brooklyn, and an unusual MVA in the Bronx (a trailer full of horses had an accident) Hooray! The north end of City Hall Park will reopen this summer. It's been closed since September 11, 2001 - take that, terrorists!Must have Brooklyn yuppie accessories: Designer dog, precocious child, and backyard chickens for fresh eggs Video......

A memorial service for Robert Altman, who passed away in November will be held on Tuesday. The service is open to the public and will take place tomorrow at noon at the Majestic Theater (247 West 44th Street). The Times reports that Julianne Moore, Tim Robbins, Bob Balaban, Harry Belafonte, E. L. Doctorow, Kevin Kline, Alan Rudolph, Joan Tewkesbury, Lily Tomlin and Garry Trudeau are all expected to speak. Tomorrow there will also be a......

You know it's the beginning of January when the gyms are filled with New Years resolution exercisers and the movie theaters are filled with post-New Years dreck. Frankly, it's best to focus on getting caught up on last year's best (see our Top 10 and the subsequent comments for suggestions) and leave this week's releases for suckers with movie money to burn. Hilary Swank often stars in Oscar-lauded movies but her newest about an inner-city......

THEATER: According to industry rag Variety, playwright Kristine Thatcher “has been deservedly attracting international attention. [Her] latest, Among Friends, is a whimsical and provocative deconstruction of hetero male bonding." The story goes like this: “Three old friends gather as often as possible to play poker. Matt is a struggling Sears appliance salesman; Will, a public school teacher; and Dan, a real-estate developer and award-winning humanitarian. But when Will discovers the lionized Dan cheating at cards,......

Robert Altman, maverick film director, died on Monday night in Los Angeles. He was 81 years old. Altman had recently been promoting the DVD release of A Praire Home Companion, a film in which the movie studio hired Paul Thomas Anderson to be an assistant director in case, as Altman put it, he kicked the bucket. He had been nominated five times for best director at the Academy Awards, but never won one (a......

Ever since that W cover with Meryl Streep and Lindsay Lohan, an unexpected amount of buzz around Robert Altman's new film Prairie Home Companion has been building. Maybe it's merely the oddity of combining Garrison Keillor's radio program, Altman's usual troop of amazing character actors and the teen starlet that has people intrigued but it finally hits general theatrical release. Besides a blonde LIndsay trying to hold her own with the likes of Lily Tomlin......

This weekend is the weekend of movie déjà vu. You will be struck with the nagging feeling that all of the major films new to theaters seem oddly like something you've seen before. But repertory programming out in Brooklyn or in the West Village will provide a much needed shot of creativity to counter balance the same old, same old. A remake of the '70s disaster classic, Poseidon opens this weekend with Josh "the poor......

For New York moviegoers, this is a good week for those who worship at the cult of the director. In both the theatrical releases and the repertory columns, film fans of various established and up in coming auteurs will surely get their fill. Brooklyn’s own Spike Lee takes on the action thriller genre in his newest, Inside Man starring Clive Owen as a bank robber, Denzel Washington as the hostage negotiator on the case and......

Gothamist was a bit underwhelmed by this year's Golden Globe nominees, and we were thinking of not liveblogging. But, gosh darn it as we watched the E! preshow and saw the starlets sparkle their way down the red carpet, we realize it was hopeless, so here we are. Let it be known that: - Keira Knightley looks gorgeous in her white Valentino - and there's something surprisingly youthful about the dress, even though there's that......

- The drunk driver who killed a Staten Island teen tried to kill himself in the holding cell - The Mayor chooses his seventh and final deputy mayor - We've just wasted many precious minutes looking at Rate My Professors, thanks to the Village Voice article about it - and we are disturbed that a septungenarian prof of ours was deemed "hot" (but he is an awesome teacher) - An awful murder of a......

Last night Gothamist waited an hour in the rain at Tribeca Film Festival, as only a few volunteers handled the long lines for ticket pick up. Although we were drenched and missed our movie, we did get to see Kermit the Frog dressed in a suit (hugging Robert Deniro) as well as Stella's Michael Showalter (we held back from screaming Wet Hot American Summer lines) before presenting his romantic comedy The Baxter, which you can......

Inspired by Google's celebration of van Gogh's birthday, Gothamist encourages everyone to visit a Van Gogh painting in the next week or so. There are many in New York, such as: - Mountains at Saint-Remy at the Guggenheim - Starry Night at the Museum of Modern Art - And many at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including his self-portrait, La Berceuse, Irises, and Claude Monet's Sunflowers painting that Van Gogh reportedly preferred; there will also......

News that Jennifer Aniston has picked a post-Friends project is less interesting than the actual conceit of the project, which is written and will be directed by Ted Griffin (who wrote the remake of Ocean's Eleven and Matchstick Men). According to the Hollywood Reporter: Griffin's project will find Aniston starring as a young woman who discovers that her family's darkest secret was the inspiration for the book and the movie "The Graduate" and that she......

As a movie lover, I love movies about making films, like Robert Altman's The Player and Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion, but it only can get better when it's a documentary of the making of a film, like Hearts of Darkness: The Filming of Apocalypse Now, which uses Eleanor Coppola's footage of the making of her husband's film, and American Movie, a somewhat exploitative but hilarious look that tells of the passion with which......