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 ...

"Forty Shades of Blue" is a muted but nicely observed study of a Russian woman's gradual estrangement from her domineering Memphis music-legend husband. This long-awaited second feature from Ira Sachs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...