Michael Schulman

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  • Dec 8, 2025
    Chloé Zhao’s astonishing career has been a series of hairpin turns. Born in Beijing, in 1982, she wound up at New York University’s film school, where she studied...
  • Nov 10, 2025
    Laura Dern is such a child of Hollywood that she can trace her conception to a movie set: “The Wild Angels,” the Roger Corman biker flick that starred her parents, the...
  • May 27, 2025
    Patti LuPone stood in a midtown recording studio one spring afternoon, talking to Carrie Bradshaw. LuPone, who descends from what she calls Sicilian peasant stock, had filmed an arc...
  • May 14, 2025
    Richard Kind is the Platonic ideal of a character actor. When he shows up in something—as Larry David’s cousin in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” as Rudy Giuliani in...
  • Feb 7, 2025
    Stop me if you’ve seen this one. A committee of august personages convenes, with much pomp and circumstance, to choose the best of their lot. Time-honored rituals are observed....
  • Jan 24, 2025
    Until two weeks ago, Oscar pundits were describing this awards season as “weird.” Unlike last year’s slate, dominated by Barbenheimer, the new crop of contenders...