Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land, is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder, or perhaps something altogether more ...

Driven by his own experiences with the Hollywood machine, Brit director Bernard Rose has created a damning look at life in Tinseltown with "ivans xtc"... What made you adapt Tolstoy's "The Death of ...

In his 1886 novella, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” Count Leo Tolstoy describes his protagonist’s life as having been “most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.” He goes on to recount ...

Tosltoy’s Ivan is a man who spends his entire life building up an empty fortress of wealth and privilege only to realize, in his dying breath, that he is mostly miserable, that all his relentless ...

Dawn breaks over the Hollywood hills, gradually, beautifully, forebodingly. As the mists clear, a terrible sound is heard in the canyons where the privileged hide themselves. A dog, perhaps, run over ...

Ivans xtc ***** Dir: Bernard Rose With: Danny Huston, James Merendino, Adam Krentzman, Lisa Enos, Alison Taylor, Joanne Duckman 94 mins, cert 18 www.ivansxtc.com The continuing myth of Hollywood ...

Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston), a superagent at a talent agency with more than a passing resemblance to CAA, is a big, bluff charmer with a boyish grin, a shiny blond girlfriend with no hips, and a gift ...

Loosely based on Tolstoy's the Life and Death of Ivan Ilyich by way of the story of deceased agent Jay Moloney, Ivans xtc is the story of Hollywood player, Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston). An ...

Writer-director Bernard Rose updates Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilyich,” transposing the action from a stiflingly conventional enclave of Russian civil servants to glitzy, decadent Hollywood. This ...