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Wind River pairs Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a game warden and FBI agent, respectively, investigating a murder on…
A brave new world has dawned, with independents learning to navigate the narrows between piracy and profit.
At the end of 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, actor-scribe Jason Segel inserted a Dracula puppet musical as both a touching…
Director Tarsem Singh is on a roll. His newest picture, Mirror Mirror (“The Untold Adventures of Snow White”) being prepped…
The Amazonas Film Festival, which took place from November 3-9, completed its eighth annual run with a rich cycle of
Tarsem Singh speaks on how he constructs the always-striking visuals of his films and the somewhat unlikely inspiration for the…
Rising star Ellen Page—the heart and soul of Jason Reitman’s 2007 indie hit Juno—is turning up on Hollywood marquees more
French moviemaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest film, Micmacs, gets its stateside release this spring. For the famed director of Delicatessen (1991),
Most moviemakers will tell you that story trumps technology on the best movie sets. It is nonetheless fair to say
Something striking has occurred in the career of Chris Weitz. Once the self-described “techie” half of a low-key directing duo
Public Enemies follows the attempts of FBI agent Melvin Purvis to hunt down notorious criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson…
Actor Freddy Rodríguez has been picking up the pace of late. By now clearly established as one of the most
In The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, artist-moviemaker Julian Schnabel returns to familiar terrain while managing to explore a new…
With over 60 pictures to his credit, actor-director John Turturro, purveyor of somewhat off-the-wall, idiosyncratic characters drawn largely from the
So much of what makes a motion picture work at the level of technique (the subtle or dramatic use of…
Benoît Delhomme, self-portrait in Taipei (cyan light) We have all heard it said countless times: cinema is a collaborative art.
Cate Blanchett in Charlotte Gray Jeremy Brock had it coming. After cutting his teeth as a writer in British television
Mike Hill Dan Hanley Film editors Mike Hill and Dan Hanley have a lot to celebrate. Their latest montage, Ron
Sitting down to a chat with Ismail Merchant is rather like having a friendly neighbor over for coffee and a
The Believer Henry Bean has put himself in the hot seat. A successful scribe for many years now, he moved
Sam Mendes (l) and Conrad Hall on the set of The Road To Perdition With over 40 years of experience
Carol Littleton Some people plan and scheme for years about how to forge a career in the film business. For
Jonathan Firth in Luther. Moviemaker Bart Gavigan is a rare bird. A writer-of-repute for countless years, he is only now
Director Anthony Minghella There are few people truly interested in cinema to whom the name "Anthony Minghella" is not familiar.