The impulse and need to give all for your art is both idealized and questioned in Whiplash, the potent and obviously very personal second film from writer-director Damien Chazelle.
JK Simmons is generating awards buzz as a terrifying music teacher whose scenes with Miles Teller's young drummer are like 'two boxers in the ring.
EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle's Sundance-winning Whiplash, an admittedly largely autobiographical screenplay he wrote, has been mysteriously classified as an adapted script by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Anyone who has ever practiced an Oscar speech in front of the bathroom mirror knows it's an honor just to be nominated, even if they don't know how to say your name. But what else do the nominees for the 87th Academy Awards have to say? The Times is
In the winter of 2013, just a few days after turning 28, Damien Chazelle slogged through the snow in Park City for his first visit to the Sundance Film Festival. He brought his 18-minute movie about a brilliant young jazz