Philip Kaufman

Hemingway & Gellhorn HBO, $19.97; Blu-ray, $24.99 The cartoonish excesses of writer Ernest Hemingway get blown up to the size of a Roy Lichtenstein painting in this very strange HBO movie. Nicole Kidman plays war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, who...

Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen bring acting heft to this made-for-HBO drama about the passionate relationship of war reporter Martha Gellhorn and iconic author Ernest Hemingway. While their work reflected major world events and deep personal emotions,...

LOS ANGELES -- Stop us if you've heard this one before: HBO dominated the Emmy nominations announced Thursday morning, picking up 81 nods for viewer favorites such as "Boardwalk Empire" and "Game of Thrones" as well as comedy newcomers "Girls" and "Veep."...

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Costner and Paxton throw themselves into playing aging, vengeful and snarling patriarchs. But you may want to escape them. The general meanness drives a few characters mad. This terrible, monotonous story could have the same effect on viewers....

Cannes 2012: “I'm not interested in being safe, and I'm willing to fail because of that,” Nicole Kidman declares. “I feel very ashamed when I do something safe.” She's at Cannes this year with “Hemingway & Gellhorn” and...

As a general rule, roughly 99% of remakes fall somewhere between the awful and the utterly redundant — particularly when there was nothing wrong with the original. But, in Hollywood terms, there was one thing fatally wrong about the original “...

Opening Wednesday night with Wes Anderson's oddly endearing “Moonrise Kingdom,” the Cannes Film Festival is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year and marking that milestone by embracing all kinds of opposites: old and young, dramatic...

When iconic screenwriter/director Philip Kaufman set his sights on creating a film about the peerless war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and her tumultuous relationship with her second husband, writer Ernest Hemingway, he knew exactly who he wanted to...

Swedish actor Erland Josephson, one of fabled director Ingmar Bergman's closest friends and collaborators, known for his portrayals of aloof intellectuals and often Bergman's alter ego in such celebrated films as "Scenes From a Marriage" and "Cries and...

An upcoming HBO film, "Hemingway & Gellhorn" presents the challenge: Have you read Martha Gellhorn?...

Joaquin Phoenix makes a return appearance to "Late Show with David Letterman" on Wednesday, September 22, and two days later hits the Charles in the controversial documentary "I'm Still Here," which chronicles his attempt to switch from acting to rap....