Jennifer Beals gave one of the most memorable performances of the '80s when she played Alex Owens, the welder by day and dancer by night at the heart of the stylish 1983 blockbuster Flashdance. Beals ...

Michael Nouri in 'Flashdance' (left); Michael Nouri in 2024 (right). When Michael Nouri starred in 1983’s Flashdance, he thought his career was set. The truth ended up being more complicated. “So my ...

‘Flashdance’ was released 30 years ago this week — TIME looks back at the movie’s impact on pop-culture Contact us at [email protected] ...

In the gleam of sweat on bare shoulders, in the sudden snap of a strobe-lit pirouette, in the promise of escape built from steel and longing — there lies Adrian Lyne. To talk about Lyne is to talk ...

Jennifer Beals became an icon of the 80s with her role in 'Flashdance'. Since then, she has continued working as an actress with great roles in films such as 'Four Rooms' (1994) 'Devil in a Blue Dress ...

David Cronenberg was heavily considered to direct the classic 1980s film 'Flashdance', which would have been a terrible idea.

Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor who was a regular collaborator with William Friedkin and whose other credits include “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Kid,” died Sunday at his ...

"Really, I don’t know why [they] thought I should do it," Cronenberg said of being courted by producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer to direct the 1983 feature. Well, that could have been a real ...

Jennifer Beals knows a thing or two about the Zeitgeist. The actress, 61, became a pop culture icon in 1983 as Alex, the striving, legwarmer-clad protagonist of Flashdance. In 2004, she struck gold ...