One night long ago in Harlem, boundary-pushing filmmaker William Greaves gathered as many surviving luminaries he could find from what became known as “The Harlem Renaissance.” He filmed them for ...
Remember Rinko Kikuchi? The Oscar nominee for 2007’s Babel is back on the big screen with Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! In this personal, inventive, entertaining film, the grown-up star plays ...
Famously prickly author Patricia Highsmith gets the cinematic treatment turned back on herself courtesy of a new film by Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man). Dame Helen Mirren delivers a vicious ...
It may not be the next Martha’s Vineyard but it’s definitely not cursed. The freshman season of the Apple TV comedy thriller Widow’s Bay dominated the Primetime and Creative Arts ...
Karen (Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried, not reprising the role of Karen Smith from Mean Girls) has not led the life she thought she would lead. After getting her college degree and getting ...
On episode 172 of the Director Watch Podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter discuss the first film in their Edward Yang series, Taipei Story (1985). Welcome back to Director Watch! On ...
In an interview with “Vanity Fair,” master filmmaker Mike Leigh described the idiosyncrasies of his unorthodox filmmaking process. Leigh has made movies his own way for the past fifty years, ...
Who said Pixar/Disney and Illumination have the final say when it comes to children’s movies with life affirming messages? At this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Julián, a film ...
Telling the story of Rocky’s making means re-creating the essence of the iconic, Best Picture-winning, franchise-spawning film itself. As the film’s depiction of the young, hungry ...
As an actor looking to direct your first feature, you could do a lot worse than choosing a family melodrama. The genre requires committed work from the acting ensemble, which allows the director ...
A famous Hadith in the Muslim faith, attributed to Prophet Muhammad, gives writer-director Bassam Tariq’s desperate, spiritual family drama and hit-man action thriller its title, and the ...
In Britain, two people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s every hour. In John Madden’s (Shakespeare in Love) new film, Onwards and Sideways, those two people happen to receive their diagnoses at the ...
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