TV Guide: Philip Roth

Video: Author Philip Roth on New Book

CBS News — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Chris Wragge and Erica Hill speak with acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth about his new novel, "The Humbling," and his career spanning over 50 years.

Video: Author Philip Roth on New Book

CBS — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Chris Wragge and Erica Hill speak with acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth about his new novel, "The Humbling," and his career spanning over 50 years.

Video: Falcon Down

Starz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Synopsis: A squadron leader wrongly relieved of his command gets a chance to wipe the slate clean if he helps the government retrieve a deadly weapon that has fallen into the hands of enemy agents.

Video: Trailer No. 1

AOL Moviefone — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Adapted from author Philip Roth's novel The Dying Animal, director Isabel Coixet's elegant tale of obsession explores the relationship between a highly respected professor (Ben Kingsley) and an impossibly gorgeous grad student (Pen lope Cruz). As their relationship deepens, the professor finds his ego challenged by the girl's enchanting beauty. Dennis Hopper and Patricia Clarkson co-star. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

Video: Elegy

Apple Trailers — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Driven by Isabel Coixet s visually assured and deeply observant direction, Elegy charts the passionate relationship between a celebrated college professor and a young woman whose beauty both ravishes and destabilizes him. As their intimate connection transforms them-more than either could imagine-a charged sexual contest evolves into an indelible love story. With humanistic warmth, wry wit and erotic intensity, Elegy explores the power of beauty to blind, to reveal and to transform. Starring Oscar-nominee Pen lope Cruz and Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, with extraordinary supporting performances from Dennis Hopper, Patricia Clarkson and Peter Sarsgaard, Elegy is based on Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Roth s short novel The Dying Animal.

Video: Epitaph for Tommy

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Season 2, Episode 10: Tommy is a bystander accidentally killed during a fight between Duncan and Immortal Gallen. MacLeod tries to find out more about the dead man.

Video: The Human Stain Trailer

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk, a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeper and deeper into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when an affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming public. Ed Harris, who previously worked with Benton in 1984's Places in the