Chockfull of ideas and with an irreverence that irresistibly recalls late '60s American cinema, thesp John Turturro's third outing in the helmer's chair, "Romance & Cigarettes," alternately shines and ...

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CHAMPAIGN – Introducing the movie "Romance & Cigarettes" on Sunday at Roger Ebert's Film Festival, Time magazine movie critic Richard Corliss said moviemaking is in a "very timid period." "Do you know ...

After watching John Turturro’s strange, intoxicating musical “Romance & Cigarettes,” you’ll be walking around for a few days humming the Engelbert Humperdinck hit “A Man Without Love,” and smiling.

The writer-director’s infectious daring has spread to all of his actors, and this is the sort of uncommonly blessed cast that only a fellow beloved actor could wrangle for such a tenuous idea. James ...

Was “Romance &Cigarettes” actually written by Barton Fink, the screenwriter played by John Turturro in the film of the same name? It’s possible, given the blue-collar milieu and the uncommercial ...

When John Turturro mined the subsoil of his Brooklyn childhood in order to write and direct Romance & Cigarettes, getting filthy apparently wasn’t a concern. The racy musical dressed in a romantic ...

For his ambition and all-out devotion, you want to root for writer and director John Turturro (Mac, Illuminata). As an actor (Barton Fink, Do the Right Thing), Turturro is known for going to emotional ...

Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) is a steelworker. All day long, he sits with his friend Angelo (Steve Buscemi) on bridge pillars, repairing them and listening to his colleague's crude stories about ...

For his third movie as director (2005), John Turturro came up with a novel project: a working-class musical, set in his native Queens, in which the shabby characters belt out vintage AM favorites ...