Timelessness, when it comes to matters of style, is a misguided virtue. You don't really want clothes that are timeless (and we all know that the years can get the better of any garment: that leather aviator jacket you swore you'd have forever? suddenly looks like Indiana Jones, the first go-round); you want to wear things that are relevant to, but...

Cards on the table: I find it hard to dislike a movie that delivers songs by George Jones and Bruce Springsteen within the first five minutes or so. The rest of the music in ''Lucky You'' is of a similarly high, canonical quality (even when it's Drew Barrymore rather than Mr. Jones singing ''Cold Hard Truth''), but by the time the brand-new,...

CERTAIN films are unimaginable anywhere but in the cities where they're set. ''Sweet Smell of Success'' in New York, for instance, or ''Breathless'' in Paris. ''Chinatown'' in noirish Los Angeles, ''The Untouchables'' in two-fisted Chicago. Similarly, if one wants to make a movie about bluffing, artifice and high-grade insincerity, there's only one...
Curtis Hanson (født 24. marts 1945) er en amerikansk filminstruktør.