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Luca Marinelli in "Martin Eden" (The Match Factory/ Kino Lorber)

“Martin Eden” star Luca Marinelli on the struggle of the artist as individualist

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Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in "The Princess Bride" (MGM)

“As You Wish”: Cary Elwes on “The Princess Bride,” doing his own stunts, and whether he’d rather fight with a sword, his hands or his wits

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Elijah Wood (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Elijah Wood’s guide to clean living: “The sensual things in life are what I’m attracted to”

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Kim Basinger in "The 11th Hour"

Kim Basinger on her “11th Hour” role: “I wanted to portray being maternal, which is so powerful and innate in a woman’s psyche”

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Bobby Cannavale in "Adult Beginners" (Radius-TWC)

Bobby Cannavale on his offbeat roles: “The weird f**ked-up friend is more interesting than the lead”

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Marisa Tomei (AP/Chris Pizzello)

Marisa Tomei: “My tough/fragile thing comes from being Italian”

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Thomas Jane (Lionsgate/Sam Emerson)

Thomas Jane: “I love guns”

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Wes Bentley (AP/Victoria Will)

Wes Bentley: “I get a kick out of dangerous people”

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"Day of the Mummy"

“I made no money and I was drenched in blood”: This is what it’s like to star in a B-movie

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"Little Miss Sunshine" (Twentieth Century Fox)

Road trips from hell: Why movies love disastrous family vacations

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John Leguizamo in "Fugly!"

John Leguizamo: “Latinos are starving to see themselves onscreen”

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Sherman Alexie (Chase Jarvis)

Sherman Alexie: “It’s funny that Hollywood would hire an Indian to make white people more likable”

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Sharon Leal and William Levy in "Addicted" (Lionsgate)

From “Adore” to “Addicted”: How movies handle female adulterers

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Janet Leigh in "Psycho"

From “Psycho” to “Gone Girl”: The shower scene as plot device

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Kevin James and Adam Sandler in "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry"

“Guys don’t iron other guys’ underwear”: When characters in movies pretend to be gay

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Judge Reinhold and Phoebe Cates in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (Universal Pictures)

The best movie masturbation scenes

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Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in "The Shawshank Redemption" (Castle Rock Entertainment)

Why do we love prison movies?

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Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe in "Antichrist"

The golden age of sexual taboos: How indie movies brought deranged sex acts to the big screen

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Patricia Clarkson (Sundance Selects)

Patricia Clarkson: “I’m impulsive — which is why I never married or had kids”

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James Franco (AP/Andy Kropa)

James Franco: “If people have Franco fatigue, they should stop paying attention”

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Shawnee Smith in "Saw"

What would it take to make you cut off your own leg? The most terrifying ethical dilemmas in torture porn horror movies

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Alia Shawkat (Jean-Marc Barr)

Alia Shawkat: I’m more than Maeby Fünke

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Zoe Kazan (AP/Todd Williamson)

“I hate the word ‘quirky'”: Zoe Kazan on being an indie starlet

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Corey Stoll (AP/Victoria Will)

Corey Stoll: “I make bad decisions every day”

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