AVILÉS, SPAIN -- When Isabel Coixet arrived at the International Berlin Film Festival this year for the premiere of her documentary ''Escuchando al juez Garzón,'' which was showing in the special gala section for ''new and extraordinary productions,'' it seemed a world away from her flawed 1988 debut. It took Ms. Coixet almost eight years to get...
NORCO, Calif. -- Fifteen men darted across the room, their faces slathered in greasepaint, reciting lines from ''Tartuffe.'' The stage, such as it was, was a low-ceilinged recreation room, and the cast was a troupe of felons who had just stepped in from the dusty yard of the California Rehabilitation Center. For four hours, they conducted workshops...
In 1973, when PBS broadcast ''An American Family,'' that documentary series about the Loud family of Santa Barbara, Calif., seemed like television engagé: a camera-armed rebellion against the scripted contrivances of canned and conventional television. So it's telling -- almost a signal of surrender -- that ''Cinema Verite,'' an HBO movie about...
Timothy Francis Robbins (født 16. oktober 1958 i West Covina, Californien, USA) er en amerikansk Oscar-vindende skuespiller, manuskriptforfatter, filminstruktør, producent, aktivist og musiker.
Robbins er opvokset i Greenwich Village på Manhattan. Han har læst ved School of Theater, Film and Television ved University of California, Los Angeles. Han debuterede allerede som teeanger ved Theater for the New City i New York.
Fra 1988 til 2009 dannede han par med skuespilleren Susan Sarandon. Parret udtalte sig ofte i politiske spørgsmål, bl.a. er Robbins modstander af dødsstraf i USA og Irakkrigen. Han er medlem af The Green Party.
I 2003 modtog Tim Robbins en Oscar for bedste mandlinge hovedrolle for sin rolle som Dave Boyle i Mystic River.