Raphie Frank,
Interview Retrospective...

Spalding Gray, who committed suicide in 2004, was a beloved fixture of the downtown theatre scene. He cofounded the Wooster Group in 1977 and turned extraordinarily personal monologue performances into a hypnotizing experience for audiences. One of these, Swimming to Cambodia, became a movie filmed by Jonathan Demme and released in 1987, and it propelled his fame beyond the experimental off-Broadway scene (it’s also just been reissued as a book). But it was his......

- Some hints about what to check out during the Tribeca Film Festival - Queens resident and cookie enthusiast Cookie Monster changes diet - The Paper of Record wants to get lean and mean - Revisitng Republican National Convention arrests by using videos and photographs - Interview with indie filmmaker Todd Solondz and the hilarious Patrick Borrelli - Machete murder on subway platform - Cooking from the Whole Foods Market Cookbook - Check out the......

While we know you’re probably anxiously waiting for Mel Gibson’s Pope: The Movie or for your Mr. Skin’s Skinclylopedia to arrive, you might want to check out some great new and revived movies this weekend: Though not as fun as spoonerisms (“chipping the flannel”), they're words or phrases which read the same in both directions (like “nun”). Even just pronouncing it is mildly amusing. Pa-lin-dromes. Todd Solondz'’s latest film follows a young Jersey teen who......

Todd Solondz, Filmmaker...

Oh, Paul Giamatti... Hollywood may like good acting, but Oscars loves pretty faces better. Gothamist thought that when you didn't get nominated for your role as Pig Vomit in Private Parts, it was because of the whole movie-about-Howard-Stern thing. When you didn't get nominated for American Splendor, we guessed "Maybe Oscar voters don't get indie cartoons." But, now, as your peers in the Actors' Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences have......