Paul Weitz

'Pain & Gain': Why is it so hard for directors to shed their skin?

2013-04-29 08:25:00

If you follow directors' careers, you’ve often heard how hard it is for a so-called small filmmaker to go big. A few, like Christopher Nolan, have done it, evolving from intimate indies to studio tent poles. But it’s a trick infrequently...

Movie review: 'Admission' gets a passing grade

2013-03-22 00:00:00

A fraught romantic comedy shot through with anxiety about getting your child into an Ivy League school or else, "Admission" stars Tina Fey as a Princeton University admissions officer with a secret. Her genial foil is Paul Rudd, who runs a rural New...

Jeanine Basinger examines movie marriage in 'I Do and I Don't'

2013-02-01 10:00:00

Jeanine Basinger's "I Do and I Don't: A History of Marriage in the Movies" (Alfred A. Knopf: 432 pp., $30) is a breezy, fun excursion into Hollywood's presentation of matrimony, from the earliest days of cinema through the modern era. But rather than...

Nick Flynn, on the set of his life story

2013-01-18 13:35:00

Nick Flynn is probably the only living poet who watched his life made into a movie last year. He's most certainly the only one who saw Robert De Niro play his father — and without a doubt the only one whose father shrugged De Niro off, unimpressed....

Lily Tomlin taps her feminist experience for 'Admission'

2013-01-12 15:30:00

Shortly before Lily Tomlin arrived on set to play an aging feminist in Paul Weitz's dramatic comedy "Admission," she had a flash of inspiration. What if she had a breastplate made to cover her upper torso, tattooed it and then appeared in the film...

Black List 2011: The complete list of Hollywood's hottest scripts

2011-12-12 16:36:40

Oscars 2012: For De Niro, it’s about Clooney and Streep (and Uggie)

2012-02-24 16:37:16

Writer Nick Flynn on 'Being Flynn'

2012-03-01 16:35:28

'Admission': Tina Fey, Paul Rudd could get all Liz Lemon-y

2012-03-13 21:37:08

'American Reunion': How Universal revived its oldest teen franchise

2012-03-13 16:37:53

Nick Flynn's story comes to screens, with Robert De Niro [video]

2011-11-28 16:34:46

Monster Mash: Say goodbye to 'Surfing Madonna'; NEA honors 18; 'The Honeymooners' as a musical

2011-06-24 16:33:03

Given the scene-skipping poetry of this movie's unprintably titled source material (a beautifully tragic memoir by writer Nick Flynn), there was reason to be skeptical of its journey to the big screen.

2012-12-12 16:23:56