Thursday, Jun. 29, 2023

Plumes of pink smoke. Explosions of blue. Expectant parents laughing, screaming, fainting, shooting arrows or even guns. The new documentary "Every Body" opens with footage of the often absurd practice of elaborate "gender reveals."

But by the end of this illuminating film, we're forced...

Friday, Oct. 7, 2022

Cate Blanchett has heard the line before. "I wrote this part for you" is a director-actor pickup line, she said. It is not usually to be believed.

But what she didn't know when Todd Field sent her his script for "Tár," a modern-day parable about an extraordinary conductor and composer at...

Saturday, May. 21, 2022

When the Cannes Film Festival audience stood to applaud James Gray's richly observed autobiographical drama "Armageddon Time," about the director's own 1980s childhood in Queens, Gray's voice quivered as he addressed the crowd.

"It's my story, in a way," said Gray. "And you guys shared it...

Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022

Among Belfast’s (Focus Features) seven Oscar nominations are three for writer-producer-director Kenneth Branagh--Best Director, Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The latter two make Branagh the first to receive Academy Award nods across seven categories in his career. He had...

Wednesday, Sep. 8, 2021

Paul Schrader knows he has a limited number of films left, so whatever he does from here on out is going to be for himself.

At 75 years old, the writer of "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull" and director of "American Gigolo" and "Mishima" was even somewhat prepared to call it a day after his...

Tuesday, Jul. 13, 2021

The set-up of Tom McCarthy's "Stillwater" sounds very Liam Neeson. 

Matt Damon stars as a tough, terse Oklahoma father who travels to Marseille, France, to visit his jailed daughter (Abigail Breslin), who has been imprisoned for her role in a scandalous Amanda Knox-styled murder case....

Monday, Jun. 14, 2021

When the filmmaker Morgan Neville began making a documentary on Anthony Bourdain, the late chef and globe-trotting television host, one of the first things he did was comb through every song Bourdain had ever referenced. He came up with a playlist 18½ hours long and called it "Tony." 

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Friday, Mar. 26, 2021

Costume designer Alexandra Byrne earlier this month garnered an Oscar nomination, the sixth of her career, for Emma (Focus Features) which is based on Jame Austen’s classic novel of the same title. Emma marks the feature directorial debut of Autumn de Wilde and stars Anya...

Monday, Feb. 15, 2021

Robin Wright used to joke that her directorial debut had already been made. It was called "Blue Valentine," it starred Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling as a couple falling apart, it came out in 2010 and it was directed by Derek Cianfrance, not her. And she'd always assumed that hers would...

Thursday, Apr. 2, 2020

Even progressively minded movies about abortion have usually focused on the morality of the decision. Eliza Hittman wanted to make a film where the highest hurdle isn't deciding to have an abortion. It's getting it. 

"For me, it was about the obstacles. I think a lot of films focus on...

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