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John Krasinkia TMs directorial debut is Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , a play he discovered while studying playwriting at Brown University.

Christopher Meloni and Denis O'Hare star in "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.'' Previously released Amelia It's Oscar season: Time to wheel out Hilary Swank for her annual viewing.

Here are a few of the Austin-related, movie-related news items that have been floating around recently: Nancy Schiesari's documentary Tattooed Under Fire airs on KLRU on Tuesday, November 10 at 9 pm.

George Clooney and Kevin Spacey in "The Men Who Stare at Goats.'' New releases American Casino Leslie Cockburn's solid if unexceptional documentary about the causes and consequences of the financial meltdown shares Michael Moore's politics, but, thankfully, not his methods.

As Gentleman Jim Halpert on "The Office," John Krasinski is the prototypical dreamboat, a congenial hunk who doesn't know he's a congenial hunk, the kind of guy women want to jump and men want to hang with.

John Krasinski chatted up Boston.com visitors yesterday on a visit to the Globe.

Is he a hideous man? Link Comments November 6, 2009 08:12 AM I hope you're reading this early ... For those of you who didn't see the comment I posted yesterday afternoon, here's some news: John Krasinski is coming to my office to do a Boston.com chat today .

Julianne Nicholson plays a graduate student gathering information on men's sex lives.

This , Melissa James Gibson's tale of the complicated life of a single mom who is a promising poet, played by Julianne Nicholson, begins a world premiere engagement at Playwrights Horizons Nov.

Bleeding admiration for the David Foster Wallace stories on which it's based, John Krasinski's directorial debut follows Sara Quinn as she interviews men about their sexual proclivities for her master's thesis.

Dale Roe writes about television for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked at the American-Statesman for 10 years and has written family movie and video game reviews as well as watched lots of TV.

"It is defintely comes down on the women's side." Krasinski, who will be in town Friday to attend a screening of the flick at the Kendall Square Cinema , directed and wrote the screenplay from a book by literary ace David Foster Wallace .

Today , the New Orleans Film Festival 's most underwhelming day, is highlighted by the big-screen adaptation of the book "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" . TODAY'S BEST BET: A pair of goblins from the 1990 horror flick 'Troll 2,' a movie so bad it has spawned a cult following and a documentary about it, 'The Best Worst Movie.' Although it's been ...

Actor John Krasinski, of NBC's The Office, recently made his film-directing debut with Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, an adaptation of a short-story collection by David Foster Wallace.

A straight adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable work of Foster Wallace is asking for trouble.

What do you scream when feeling pleasure? If you're Subject No. 14, "Victory for the forces of Democratic Freedom!" is the first thing that comes to mind.

This week in the annals of celebrity eating and drinking habits: Madge slipped into Eastern Bloc with her boy toy, Jesus Luz, while Ed Westwick introduced Jessica Szohr to his parents over Tex-Mex. Read on; it was a romantic week for New York's finest.

This German film about German terrorists of the 1970s is not only dynamically made and acted, it tries to tell the truth about the reason for the outbursts.

Actor/director John Krasinski attends the opening night party for 'Brief Interviews with Hideous Men' at Su Casa on September 25, 2009 in New York City.

It's a good indicator of how far the sitcom genre has advanced that John Krasinski's directorial debut - an adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men , currently in theaters - strikes one as a fairly reasonable idea.