The continuing myth of Hollywood Babylon is now so widespread that we all know it's a rum old LA pool that doesn't have a coke-addled corpse bobbing in it. It's a rare old movie executive whose ...

In his 1886 novella, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Count Leo Tolstoy describes his protagonist’s life as having been “most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” He goes on to recount ...

Driven by his own experiences with the Hollywood machine, Brit director Bernard Rose has created a damning look at life in Tinseltown with "ivans xtc"... What made you adapt Tolstoy's "The Death of ...

Tosltoy’s Ivan is a man who spends his entire life building up an empty fortress of wealth and privilege only to realize, in his dying breath, that he is mostly miserable, that all his relentless ...

Dawn breaks over the Hollywood hills, gradually, beautifully, forebodingly. As the mists clear, a terrible sound is heard in the canyons where the privileged hide themselves. A dog, perhaps, run over ...

Bernard Rose had a horrible experience in Hollywood, when his last movie, Anna Karenina, was butchered in editing and released in a form that he (and I, for that matter) detested. Ivans xtc, his new ...

Writer-director Bernard Rose updates Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” transposing the action from a stiflingly conventional enclave of Russian civil servants to glitzy, decadent Hollywood. This ...

Loosely based on Tolstoy's the Life and Death of Ivan Ilyich by way of the story of deceased agent Jay Moloney, Ivans xtc is the story of Hollywood player, Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston). An ...