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It might be hard to believe it today, but there was a time when “Shrek” seemed like a breath of fresh air in the world of big-screen animation. Its salty humor and...

Adrienne Mancia, who scoured the world for significant films and brought them to New York as a longtime curator at the Museum of Modern Art and later at the Brooklyn Academy of...

At 24, two years into a degree in physics, Daniel Giménez Cacho received a casual invitation to attend a singing class. To the initial dismay of his engineer father, that unexpected offer...

Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the...

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also...

‘The Balcony Movie’Stream it on Mubi.This charming documentary, from the Polish director Pawel Lozinski, turns the simple gesture of striking up conversation with a stranger into a deceptively profound inquiry into what...

For the original “Avatar,” the writer-director James Cameron made extensive use of cutting-edge performance capture technology. It enabled his human cast to portray the 10-foot-tall, pointy-eared, blue-skinned aliens called the Na’vi, the...

“Liberty Heights,” set a short while later, looks at another Jewish family, the Kurtzmans, but is less insular. It occasionally, clumsily, explores a budding romance between their teenage son (Ben Foster) and...

The film’s images have faded, but the memories they’ve stirred up are vivid and full of feeling. In one shot, a tiny boy pushes a big wheelbarrow. In another, an old man...

A body lies still in a field as girls from afar shout, “Cait! Cait!” For a beat, “The Quiet Girl” sounds an uneasy note. It won’t be the last time this luminous...