The making of "Ironweed," shot entirely in Albany and its environs in 1986, with 1,100 local folks cast as extras and dozens more hired for production jobs, was likened to "fighting a war" by producer ...

Editor's note: This article was originally published in the Times Union on Dec. 13, 1987. Albany Imagine showing home movies to 2,500 of your closest friends. Advertisement Article continues below ...

Ironweed’s hero navigates the Great Depression in a drunken haze, but his journey is lit by glowing writing about love, friendship and redemption When the Paris Review interviewed William Kennedy in ...

Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson gunned for gold statues in this widely panned adaptation of William Kennedy’s 1983 novel. But there’s plenty to tug at the heartstrings As if winning a Pulitzer prize ...

Feb 4, 2025 Feb 4, 2025 Updated Mar 12, 2026 AMESBURY — Roughly 38 years since being featured in the 1987 Meryl Streep/Jack Nicholson film “Ironweed,” the newest addition to the Amesbury Carriage ...

In the glory days of theater-going, movie fans would sit back, relax, and enjoy not one but two features at their favorite movie theater. While it’s more difficult to find in our multiplex era, the ...

Coming soon to Ironweed, and what might be particularly of interest to enviros, is Power Trip, "the tragicomic film that follows an American company that buys the energy system in the former Soviet ...