K-19: The Widowmaker News Archives

The Loveless Bigelow's feature debut was a low-budget but fabulously moody biker flick - "The Wild One'' as existential fetish art, starring a hot young Willem Dafoe.

" The Hurt Locker " opened today to some of the strongest reviews for a movie this year.

June 24, 2009 Screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow join Fresh Air to discuss their collaboration on The Hurt Locker , a combat movie about an Army bomb squad that roams Iraq in search of explosives to diffuse.

Adrenalist auteur Kathryn Bigelow, 57, makes genre hybrids so exciting and engrossing that they get to be unnerving - which is part of the point.

Bigelow doesn't make many movies but when she does you ought to take notice. She's a woman operating in a man's world when it comes to genre choices.

The great director Alfred Hitchcock used to describe the distinction between surprise and suspense in terms of a bomb placed underneath a table.

American Cinematheque is presenting a Kathryn Bigelow at the Egyptian Theatre from Friday, June 5th to Sunday, June 7th.