Sometimes the ordinary, the routine, the mundane can be more frightening than an arsenal of chain saws and axes. Especially when everyday interactions become uncomfortable — and maybe even threatening. This fall,...
Read moreThe indie film veteran Eugene Hernandez will become the new director of the Sundance Film Festival, replacing Tabitha Jackson, who left the organization after just two years in the job.Hernandez, who currently...
Read moreShe worked on early projects at Florentine Films, where Ken Burns, her husband for a time, would find fame with “The Civil War.”
Read moreVENICE — Noah Baumbach is not a fan of Netflix’s “skip credits” feature. When he directed “Marriage Story” and “The Meyerowitz Stories,” Baumbach implored the streaming service not to speed viewers past...
Read moreWhen Michael Schultz began work on his first film, in 1971, there was no road map for a lengthy career as a Black director in Hollywood. The first two studio movies to...
Read moreCharlbi Dean, an actress and model who plays a lead role in the film satire “Triangle of Sadness,” which won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival this year and will...
Read moreOne night in London, I took Majors along to a friend’s poetry reading at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. It was late October, and despite the still-raging pandemic, the city had...
Read moreThe WhatsApp message arrived on May 10. “I got my call sign,” was all it read, signed “Strike.” And in the weeks that followed, leading up to the release of “Top Gun:...
Read moreThough Sundance debuted last year’s Academy Award best-picture winner, “CODA,” and Cannes can be counted on to launch major international films like “Parasite” and “Drive My Car,” when it comes to the...
Read moreSome of the biggest jewelry houses raise their public profiles as major sponsors of film festivals, like Chopard at Cannes, Cartier in Venice, and Bulgari, which is supporting the Toronto festival for...
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