Much has been made of the declining box-office receipts this year, but the concerns of movie folk have nothing on the bookish. The decline in book culture in our country and the rise in the ...

1. “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One” (1968) and “Take Two” (2005), William Greaves’ remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set. 2. “13 Lakes, ...

BOSTON — “Brokeback Mountain” and “Capote” were the biggest winners in the 24th annual balloting of the Boston Society of Film Critics, announced Sunday. “Brokeback” and director Ang Lee bested ...

ONCE UPON a time Truman Capote came for a chili lunch at my house in the Hamptons. We were alone and I served him some kind of taco chips with the chili. He observed when we sat down that he would ...