Bennett Miller

The funniest, most satisfying DVD release this week is the special two-disc edition of writer-director Judd Apatow's romantic comedy "Knocked Up." Though extras often seem like an afterthought, it's obvious that Apatow and his DVD producer put a lot of...

No one who ever experienced the operatic cackle that came out of Truman Capote would have accused him of having a musical speaking voice. Like a trombone, however, it had certain movable parts that determined its sound. "His teeth were directly over each...

"There is the Slim camp and the Pamela camp," declares Truman Capote in "Infamous," dividing New York's social circles along party-hostess lines. "Babe and I are hard Slim-ites." Chances are, acolytes of the late writer are going to be split between...

At the Directors Guild of America theater on a recent Saturday night, Warren Beatty watched "Reds" with an audience for the first time in 25 years. It's not that he didn't want to see the movie since its release in 1981. After all, he directed, produced,...

The heart of the matter is that films from 'Capote’ to 'King Kong’ touched ours. At first glance, 2005 was looking very business-as-usual. You had your prequels ("Batman Begins" and "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith") and your sequels ("Miss...

"Good Night, and Good Luck," like all of the films nominated for best picture this year, purposefully raises a lot of issues — about the politics of journalism, the reach of government into personal lives, the role fear plays in public policy. But...

We'd say that Dakota Fanning is too young to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but as long as she swears she wouldn't have voted for "Crash," it's all good. Fanning, the 12-year-old star of "War of the Worlds" and...

Message movies 'Brokeback Mountain' and 'Crash' lead a slate of issue-oriented films.This time, the medium was the message — and Oscar voters couldn't have put it more clearly. Even as the big studios increasingly eliminate thoughtful dramas from...

Complete list of nominees of the 78th annual Academy Awards. BEST PICTURE "Brokeback Mountain," Diana Ossana and James Schamus, producers "Capote," Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, producers "Crash," Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman,...

4:45 p.m. So, less than half an hour till the Oscar ceremony begins. And amazingly, some actresses have actually slipped inside the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood without being mauled by E! Entertainment's resident red-carpet manhandler, Isaac Mizrahi. After...

Bennett Miller entered the editing room on the documentary "The Cruise," with roughly 100 hours of footage featuring bizarre New York tour guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch. Although Miller's first feature is finally arriving on DVD this Tuesday (March 7),...

First things first: I did not love 10 movies this year. I leave it up to you to decide who to blame for that. There were many films I wanted to love but didn't ("Shopgirl," "Jar-head," "Walk the Line," "Wedding Crashers"), many I liked more than expected...