Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, critics usually considered Michael Cunningham to be just another of the growing number of novelists chronicling the experience of gay Americans in the age of AIDS. These novelists included David Leavitt,...

For quite a while, Michael Cunningham was a painter. He thought that might be his calling. He did life figures, and was beginning to paint empty rooms. "I wasn't bad at it. I just wasn't good enough," he recalled. "I had something as...

Author Michael Cunningham states that he was first introduced to Virginia Woolf's works, the inspiration for his latest novel 'The Hours,' as a high school student. 'The Hours' interweaves three novellas based on Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway.' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM has been climbing the walls,...

Evening Running time 126 minutes Written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot Directed by Lajos KoltaiStarring Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Natasha Richardson Lajos Koltai’s Evening, from a screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham, based on the novel by Ms. Minot, seems to...

EVENING Running time 113 minutes Written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot Directed by Lajos KoltaiStarring Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Hugh Dancy Red-faced, I’m feeling contrite this week. I rant against mediocrity and plead so ardently for intelligent movies about real people saying...