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Andrew Haigh began getting a sense of the knockout power of his new film, "All of Us Strangers," a few days after it premiered at the Telluride Film Festival.
"I'd run into people who had seen the film three days before. I'd be talking to them and they'd just start crying," Haigh says,...
Sports movies typically culminate, after stirring locker-room speeches, in a dramatic bid for athletic glory. Taika Waititi's "Next Goal Wins" concerns the quest of a historically bad national soccer team, the 2011 American Samoa men's squad, in their struggle to qualify for the FIFA World Cup...
The words "For Nora" end Meg Ryan's new film "What Happens Later."
It was a no brainer to dedicate it to the late Nora Ephron, though it did require an extra layer of approval from the Directors Guild. Ephron and Ryan were responsible for some of the culture's most enduring and beloved...
Last month at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Tribute Awards gala, Shawn Levy received the inaugural Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award named in honor of the legendary Canadian filmmaker. The honor recognizes Canadians in the film industry who have made a global impact with...
Errol Morris has just sat down with a reporter when his wife calls.
"I'm being deposed," Morris says, smiling, into his phone. "I hope that it's going to turn into a criminal investigation, but I believe it's just an interview."
Morris, the veteran documentarian of "The Thin Blue...
Fran Drescher has steered the actors guild through its monthslong strike. On the heels of Hollywood studios abruptly breaking off talks with the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists this week, the actor and union president says she's baffled and disappointed....
While John Carpenter has become synonymous with fictional horror storytelling, the 75-year-old director and composer is dipping his toe into true life terrors with his new show, "John Carpenter's Suburban Screams."
The legendary director, known for genre-defining classics including "...
The countdown is on for the Fireflies West 15th annual cycling ride benefiting City of Hope Hospital’s Leukemia treatment and research for a cure. The Fireflies West traverses the California countryside from San Francisco to Los Angeles over five days--October 6-13--with its core group of...
"I always know, because I've lived life long enough, you can change things," Bethann Hardison said at the start of "Invisible Beauty," a new documentary focused on her more than five decades in fashion.
"You might need to be your foot against the pedal, but you can change things."
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One of the more famous quips attributed to Golda Meir, Israel's first and only female prime minister, was her response to how it felt being a woman in an overwhelmingly male political arena.
"I don't know," she was oft quoted as saying. "I've never tried being a man."
Meir...