Search results for

Tucked back in the woods of East Hampton, Long Island is a house that some believe may prolong life. It's modeled on residences in Japan called "reversible destiny lofts." These places have bold colors, concave floors, doors too short to walk through and columns to hold on to when you lose your balance.

Christopher Plummer — Baron von Trapp in the film of The Sound of Music — was a regular on many of TV's earliest shows. Now, in the new independent film Man in the Chair, he's playing an old-school curmudgeon who worked on a legendary film.

In Tamara Jenkins' new film, two 40-something siblings learn to deal with their elderly father's dementia. The film — it's a comedy — stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney. Jenkins' previous film work includes The Slums of Beverly Hills.

In five decades of filmmaking, director Sidney Lumet has shepherded some of Hollywood's biggest stars to Oscar nominations. His latest film, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, also has a pretty stellar cast, and Oscar may just come calling again.

The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City opens a new building Saturday. Before the opening, the art has to get inside. One of the features of the new building is a loading dock in the front, where passers-by can watch the paintings and sculptures get transferred from trucks to the building.

The film, about an animated princess thrust unprepared into the gritty reality of New York City, is what happens when wised-up meets happily-ever-after. Amy Adams is the indispensable star.

Director Jake Kasdan woke up one night knowing suddenly that his next film would be a fake music biopic called Walk Hard. He cast John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, the putative legend who has trouble with women and drugs — and who tries on a multitude of musical personalities.

Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fifth and final season. It's a crime drama with a central theme of surveillance technology used to capture drug dealers.

India is planning its first museum celebrating the writer Rudyard Kipling. A bungalow in Bombay, where Kipling was born and lived until he was nearly 6, is being restored to house a hoped-for collection of associated memorabilia.

Andrea talks with our Cultural Concierge, Jesse Kornbluth. This week Kornbluth wants everyone to watch the 1938 Russian film Alexander Nevsky, which he says has one of the greatest soundtracks in film history.