It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.