— Although he will forever be associated with Ferris Bueller, maybe the most unforgettable high-schooler in the history of the movies, Matthew Broderick attended the progressive Walden School on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and began acting in his teens. “I didn’t have the same experience as Ferris and his friends,” he says. “But I did have friends, and I definitely wanted to skip school.”
— Fifty years ago, bob rafelson was on the front lines of the new Hollywood revolution, backing easy rider and directing five easy pieces. But when his former comrades in arms became the new establishment, rafelson remained a filmmaker apart. He emerges from his aspen hideaway to reflect on a remarkable feudand brawl-filled career that redefined American movies.
— The Other Side of the Wind was going to be Orson Welles’s comeback, perhaps even topping Citizen Kane—but to this day, it remains unfinished (though that may change soon). In an adaptation from a new book about the 45-year struggle to make the film, Josh Karp reveals why Welles’s last movie is the stuff of legend.
— Golf is about something more. It's about staring down what is often our worst self-defeating behavior in a quiet setting, which ought to be meditative and so seldom actually is.
