Beyond the Multiplex

Crips and Bloods on life at Sundance

The former gang members featured in "Made in America," a new documentary by Stacy Peralta, discuss life on the streets and the utopia they've found in Park City, Utah. (Subscribe to the Beyond the Multiplex iTunes video podcast here.)

Doc Hudson vs. Che Guevara
Paul Newman's crusty, kid-friendly, oddly classic final role (as a car). Plus: Film-world eggheads battle over Soderbergh's unconventional "Che."
From Cannes headliner to pay cable
Why is the exasperating and delightful "Pleasure of Being Robbed" -- a breakthrough American micro-indie about a charming female sociopath -- barely getting released?
Bill Maher vs. the "talking snake"
The HBO host and comedian talks about "Religulous," his onslaught against the religious idiocy that threatens to deliver America to Sarah Palin and her fellow "space god" worshipers.
Indie film's ultra-realist overdose
Sundance critics went wild for the lo-fi, wide-screen, Mississippi bleakness of "Ballast." But has American neorealism turned itself into audience kryptonite?

Wayne Wang on "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers"

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