Natalie Portman on Working with Mike Nichols, the Nude Scene, and ...
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Director Mike Nichols worked with Natalie Portman on &quot;The Seagull&quot; back when Portman was still a teenager. Since that time, the two have remained close with Nichols playing a second father/mentor role in Portman&#39;s life.
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Okay, a few days ago I wrote a review of the Diving Bell and the Butterfly saying it could be the best picture of 2007, but even so you might want to skip it because the truth it reveals might be something you don't want to look at. It's a fine picture, but a tough one. Another wonderful but tough picture is No Country for Old Men. It's one of those movies that leaves so much unresolved that you walk out of the theater not sure which foot goes in front of the other. On a second viewing it makes much more sense. The world isn't necessarily as crazy as it at first seemed. But there's a movie that is also incredibly well crafted, and gets better every time you think about it -- Juno. I didn't realize how much I liked it until I heard someone compare it to Little Miss Sunshine, a movie that I did not enjoy, unlike everyone else it seems. I loved Juno because it organizes its sweetness into love for one person, the star of the movie, Juno. But everyone, no matter how dorky or clueless (and some of the adults are truly dorky and clueless) shares the love. The movie has a wholeness, an unqualified goodness, you not only walk out of the theater in love with Juno and everyone else in the movie, but your heart is warmed for everyone, including yourself. It's that good.  All three remind how good movies can be. And there were some not-too-bad movies at the end of 2007, for example, Atonement, which some didn't like, but I did. 3:10 to Yuma is a well-crafted genre picture. Michael Clayton was a perfect showcase for the talents of George Clooney. Great acting and a simple story in The Savages.  Which one was the best? I'd hate to have to choose!
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Kevin Bacon had intimate knowledge about his character's love interest while shooting "The Woodsman." She was, after all, Kyra Sedgwick, his love interest in real life.
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New in-camera features let photographers enhance images seen with the naked eye.
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The smoky Damien Rice ballad &quot;The Blower&#39;s Daughter&quot; serves as the theme of Mike Nichols&#39;s incisive sex drama &quot;Closer.
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Is the small subtle and strong cinema over? Not quite! If youÂve seen some of the non-mainstream nuggets lined up for the next couple of months, youÂd  have to agree, avant- garde cinema is alive and kicking.
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Infidelity is one of the year's hottest topics, and it's at the movies this season that we're best able to chart changing attitudes toward unfaithfulness.
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The film has many an interesting nugget about it.
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Playbill - Mike Nichols, the Tony-winning director of Monty Python&#39;s Spamalot, will direct a Broadway revival of Clifford Odets&#39; The Country Girl.
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So says Larry (Clive Owen), a London dermatologist who supposedly represents the voice of experience in Mike Nicholsâ witty, spiky, rather nasty movie of Patrick Marberâs 1997 play, âCloser
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Director Mike Nichols likes to talk about what&#39;s floating around in his head, but longtime partner Diane Sawyer won&#39;t always play that game.
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At last, a love story for adults. In 'Closer,' Mike Nichols explores the thrilling and damaging effects of passion
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Natalie Portman and the Inquisition-- they don't always mesh, but Milos Forman's film has its rewards
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New books on casting films, Stephen BaldwinÂs faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn and life in old Hollywood.
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Natalie Portman has vowed that she will never strip again for screen after filming a risquÃ© scene for her new short movie "Hotel Chevalier".
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An inability to look at dead bodies killed off Mike Nichols' hopes of training as psychiatrist 50 years ago but did nothing to diminish his fascination with marriage, mating and the games people play.
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&quot;Closer,&quot; a deliciously nasty little item by the great Mike Nichols, would be a commanding and challenging adult movie no matter when it was made, but coming right now, during these culturally