A film on Cui Jian, the rock musician whose songs embodied the spirit of hope and protest among young people in China in 1989, faces obstacles in getting distributed.
“Beyond the Black Rainbow” is set in a gloomy, underpopulated clinic outfitted with mysterious doors, where the staff members behave as oddly as the inmates.
“American Animal,” written, produced, directed and starring Matt D’Elia, is about a terminally ill man given to delivering monologues to his patient roommate.
Bradford Young, whose movies have focused on people who have been marginalized, says he is still trying to figure out what he wants to say with the camera.
As I sat in a theater watching the faux dictator of the made-up Republic of Wadiya carry on, I imagined all those real-life autocrats sitting in the dark around me guffawing at the execution jokes.
The producer of “Liz & Dick,” a television film about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, says some of Taylor’s friends aren’t happy about his casting Lindsay Lohan.
In the film, Mr. Spurlock interviews many men, from celebrities like Jason Bateman and Zach Galifianakis, to the award-winning beardsman Jack Passion, in a quest to understand how men's grooming habits have evolved.
The musical, about a team of drag performers journeying through remote Australia in a camping (and camp) bus, will play its final show at the Palace Theater on June 24.
Alan Rickman will portray play Hilly Kristal, the iconoclastic bearded, flannel-wearing founder of the famous East Village punk-rock club CBGB, in a biographical film to be shot this summer.
For better or worse the Cannes International Film Festival seems more than ever a model of stability, at a time when other major European festivals are working through regime changes.
Tim Burton's tepidly reviewed "Dark Shadows" wilted under the holdover heat of "Marvel's The Avengers," which took in an astounding $103.2 million at North American theaters in its second weekend.
Somasundaram Gunasegaram is showing more American films at Jackson Heights Cinema, but business is tough.To keep his Bollywood theater in Queens from going under, Somasundaram Gunasegaram started showing American movies. But he is already $100,000 behind on rent.
With the growing availability of tools to modify organisms, a creature like the bird imagined in the “Hunger Games” series is not an impossible fantasy.
Andrew Garfield’s Biff, in “Death of a Salesman” on Broadway, is just the latest in a string of conflicted, richly complex characters this 28-year-old actor has played in his short but already impressive career.
In Cristián Jiménez’s “Bonsái,” a struggling writer constructs a novel from a tragic first love, but it isn’t clear what is memory and what is fiction.
In the sardonic neo-noir “Nobody Else but You” an amateur gumshoe discovers a dead woman who had a lot in common with Marilyn Monroe. Obsession and detective work follow.
In a Middle Eastern village, where Christians and Muslims coexist, the women are bent on keeping their hotheaded husbands from starting a religious war.
“Portrait of Wally” is a documentary on the Third Reich’s art thefts and their aftermath, spotlighting the fate of Egon Schiele’s 1912 oil painting of his mistress.
In “Sleepless Night,” a corrupt police officer must return the cocaine he nabbed from a vicious dealer in order to release his son from the dealer’s sweaty clutches.
In “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts,” a pregnant technophile in Los Angeles sets out for an uninvited reunion with her mother, currently residing off the grid in the Arizona desert.
In “Hick,” when a young girl decides to leave her Nebraska home for a glamorous life in Las Vegas, she enters an American heartland jumble of dangers and snares.
“Girl in Progress” is a teenager-coming-of-age tale that, by virtue of its self-conscious parody of that genre, turns out to be an unusually smart example of it.
“Moonrise Kingdom,” Wes Anderson’s seventh feature, concerns a group of adults searching for fugitive teenage lovebirds on a New England island in 1965.
Jurors in the case of the man accused of killing relatives of the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson began deliberations on Wednesday after prosecutors insisted that “a tsunami of evidence” linked him to the crime.
The pursuit of Roman Polanski by American authorities who remain intent on bringing him to trial for a decades-old sex offense to some in France is reminiscent of the treason trial of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus.
In an interview-slash-self-analysis at the Web site whedonesque.com, Joss Whedon, the director and screenwriter of "The Avengers," talked about his future plans and how the film's success has or has not changed his life.
The man accused of killing three relatives of the Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson did not take the stand, and his lawyers put on a mere 30-minute defense on Tuesday.
AMC Entertainment, which owns the second-largest movie theater chain in North America, is in talks to sell itself or a significant stake to one of China’s largest theater owners, according to those briefed on discussions.
As independent filmmakers break away from the country's formulaic movie productions, a Philippine film is getting a first-ever release in North America.
The gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, compared Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, whose work is separated by a half-century.
The parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival is establishing Tribeca Firenze, a series of film programming that will run June 11 to June 18 as part of the Tuscan Sun Festival.
Audience members and actors in India have taken issue with a sequence from "The Avengers" set in the slums of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), saying it emphasizes the most negative aspects of that city.
Tim Burton’s “Dark Shadows,” opening Friday, was born of his love of the television series of the same name, from Dan Curtis, that ran in the late 1960s.
Greta Gerwig takes her profession seriously, but her naturalness on screen can make it seem as though she is merely playing a version of herself, over and over again.
Lynn Shelton, the director of “Your Sister’s Sister,” talks about her Claire Denis epiphany, when she realized, at the age of 37, that the door to directing a feature film had not shut for her yet.
Adam Yauch's slate at Oscilloscope Pictures felt less bought and more curated and very quickly, the company became synonymous with smart, interesting work.