Max Cea

Elsie Fisher felt like an outcast while growing up in Thousand Oaks, an upper-class suburb just north of Los Angeles. She had social anxiety that led her to “act out and be very weird.” And because she didn’t have a lot of friends, middle school was…

Brooklyn Academy of Music’s BAMCinemaFest, which began its 10th anniversary festival Wednesday, occupies unique territory in the landscape of American film festivals. CinemaFest is small, featuring approximately 25 American independent films every…

Since Kanye West returned to Twitter on April 13, he has tweeted 200-plus times (as of publication). The outpouring has, for the most part, been a mix of self-promotion, philosophical musings, inspirational platitudes and questionable politics — the…

Film noir — the dimly lit, hard-talking pictures featuring dangerous femme fatales and jaded sleuths — has been a recognized genre since 1946. The French critic Nino Frank came up with the term (French for “dark film”) that year, but the…

Despite the implied singularity of its title, Wes Anderson’s new stop-motion feature, Isle of Dogs, takes place on two islands — one (Japan) formerly of dogs, the other (Trash Island) newly of dogs. The turning point, we are told, occurs 20 years in…

David Byrne has not one, but two Van Goghs hanging in his office in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Both are reproductions of “The Bedroom,” with one hanging just inches above the other. “There’s a city in China that specializes in art…

Anna Deavere Smith has spent her career transforming. As an actor, she has the uncanny ability to slip seamlessly into another person’s skin, and then in an instant, with the mere removal of shoes or slouch of the shoulders, become someone…

On Wednesday’s episode of Late Night With Seth Meyers, host Seth Meyers began an interview with James Franco by bringing up sexual misconduct allegations that arose on Twitter during Sunday’s Golden Globes. Franco was booked on the show to discuss…

I can’t recall ever witnessing anything at once so carnal and refined as the breakfast order of Daniel Day-Lewis’s British couture designer, Reynolds Woodcock, in Paul Thomas Anderson’s newest film, the ’50s-set Phantom Thread. It’s partially what…