Lithe, blonde, and leggy, Laura is, at least outwardly, the quintessence of a musician’s arm jewelry. She lives with Alan James (Rip Torn), an aging blues producer who is revered despite his prickly ...

The two recent Bill Murray ennui-fests, Broken Flowers and Lost in Translation, illustrate how quietly introspective moments of passion and betrayal can have a cumulative emotional effect as ...

Wealthy music producer Alan James lives with his beautiful 30-years-younger Russian girlfriend Laura, whom he met while he was in Russia on business; they have a three-year-old son. Alan is a music ...

Alan James (Rip Torn) is a middle-age alcoholic with a mean temper, which is to say that he’s a record producer. A legend within his Memphis milieu – and, by implication, beyond it – he’s a figure of ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Memphis proved to be the lucky charm at the Sundance Film Festival this year, as the winners of the two most coveted awards were both filmed in the Tennessee music capital. Ira Sachs ...

I’m worried that the audience for artful, engaging (and yes, sometimes challenging) American cinema is truly dead. Lodge Kerrigan’s utterly gripping and emotionally satisfying “Keane” — one of the ...

Ira Sachs likes to approach his hometown of Memphis through an alien perspective: his previous feature, The Delta (1996), was about the son of a Vietnamese woman and a black American soldier, and this ...