Arts Post Archive: Movies

Inside the Vanity Fair Oscar party

How does one pass the hours between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. at Vanity Fair when one doesn't have a director to corner, or a starlet to seduce, or a powder to snort? One does what most everyone else does: play the world's most opulent, expensive game of musical chairs.

By Dan Zak and Amy Argetsinger  | February 28, 2011; 9:25 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Movies  | Tags:  oscars  
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2010 Ken Cen Watch: Winfrey

The Washington Post arts staff is keeping an eye on the doings of the 2010 Kennedy Center Honorees. This year's class is Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Bill T. Jones, Paul McCartney and Oprah Winfrey. As she gears up to launch...

By Jacqueline Trescott  | October 25, 2010; 4:30 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Jacqueline Trescott, Kennedy Center, Movies  | Tags:  kennedy center honors, meryl streep, oprah winfrey, sandra bullock  
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Gopnik's Daily Pic: Jazz Age color

By Blake Gopnik A feed from my morning musings about art and objects at www.blakegopnik.com. Daily Pic: Watch some of the earliest color movie footage, shot in 1922 on experimental Kodak stock, more than a decade before color features were...

By Blake Gopnik  | October 12, 2010; 9:15 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Blake Gopnik, Movies  | Tags:  Daily Pic  
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All right, class: "The Most Dangerous Man in America" (Daniel Ellsberg) on POV Tuesday night

Our trusty film critic Ann Hornaday already wrote about Judith Erlich and Rick Goldsmith's documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers" when it played at the Landmark E Street earlier this year. Of course...

By Hank Stuever  | October 4, 2010; 1:03 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Hank Stuever, Movies, TV  | Tags:  Daniel Ellsberg, POV, The Most Dangerous Man in America, WETA  
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An artfully bloodless 'American'

By Blake Gopnik My ignoramus motto, on date-nights with my cinephile wife: "I may not know movies, but I know what I like." That often involves films the more savvy find flawed. The knowledgeable, including my Post colleague Ann Hornaday,...

By Blake Gopnik  | September 20, 2010; 11:47 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
Categories:  Blake Gopnik, Movies  
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