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It's official. There is a new victor for "Best Martin Scorsese DVD." The recently-released, long overdue special edition of 1980's "Raging Bull" is a textbook example of how to properly give a masterpiece the ...

Four hundred years after his death, Caravaggio -- brawling bad boy of Renaissance art -- is experiencing a renaissance of his own.

The Academy Awards are announced this Sunday, Feb. 27, and it's a standard expectation that those of us in this racket should line up and place their bets on who will win.

Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Altman, Stanley Kubrick, Ernst Lubitsch, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, King Vidor, George Lucas, Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, Ingmar Bergman, Otto Preminger ...

Near the end of Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter," the 1978 Oscar winner for best picture, Michael Vronsky (Robert De Niro) arrives home from Vietnam.

Adrien Brody, who stars in The Jacket, stays warm in a different jacket. Adrien Brody is a throwback to earlier eras.

This week that cinematic summit meeting occurred, but not, as the movie-drunk among us may have hoped, in some new work of Arthur Miller or Martin Scorsese.

Martin Scorsese is not a creature of the sound bite. In an age when directors and stars are trained by their publicists to stay on message and repeat glowing mantras about their movies, Scorsese is all over the ...

Christian Bale ( Batman Begins ) and Freddy Rodriguez will star in the independent film Harsh Times, says Production Weekly.

Sunday's festival lineup reprises high points by Hirokazu Kore-eda and Theo Angelopoulos and brings back Martin Scorsese's memorable 1967 Chicago debut.

We've all cut loose with a few bars of our favorite song in the shower when we were certain that nobody was listening, or have been suckered by peer pressure and/or beer into performing a karaoke number for a ...

The colloquial title of Federico Fellini's first masterpiece refers to loafers, or, for modern-day parlance, "slackers" will do.

The only voyage in Martin Scorsese's four-hour paean to Italian cinema is that of the filmmaker's heart and soul.

The cause was cancer, ABC News said. Mr. Smith joined the news staff at ABC in 1976 and was a Washington correspondent from 1980 until he left the network in 2001.

When it comes to religious-themed films, I've always preferred those that deal with everyday struggles of faith to the more explicitly theological ones like the recent The Gospel of John and the ...

Federico Fellini's much-imitated "I Vitelloni," which begins a one-week revival today at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre, is an alternately wistful and disenchanted social comedy about the ...