It’s no wonder that the fate of Chris McCandless ate into the minds of writer Jon Krakauer and filmmaker Sean Penn. The subject of the book and now the film Into the Wild was an upper-middle-class ...

McKenzie Morgan was alive—although alone, scared, and 12,500 feet up in the middle of one of the most remote mountains ranges in the country. Certain her life was ...

Sean Penn has molded one of the best movies of a bustling fall out of Jon Krakauer’s best-selling Into the Wild. Krakauer told the true story of Chris McCandless, an honors grad from Emory University ...

As a director, Sean Penn has always been an impressionist. He would rather film the slow-burning atmosphere around his characters than the stories they inhabit. Too rooted in plot-driven genre scripts ...