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[ad_1] [With a D.I.Y. sound] there wasn’t a lot of, “Oh, I’ve got to master my instrument and I’ve got

[ad_1] A.O. Scott, our critic at large, is keeping a diary as he “attends” the virtual Sundance Film Festival, which

[ad_1] How odd to celebrate someone for not being who we’ve been programmed to expect. But American entertainment worked hard

[ad_1] The groundbreaking show that helped launch a mini-series craze, “Roots,” based on the novel by Alex Haley, is one

[ad_1] A.O. Scott, our critic at large, is keeping a diary as he “attends” the virtual Sundance Film Festival, which

[ad_1] Attending the Sundance Film Festival has never been an easy thing to do. Passes are pricey, accommodations are even

[ad_1] “It’s simple,” she said. “I try always to be true to myself. I learned from my mom: ‘Don’t lie

[ad_1] What else is new this season? More female directors, including the filmmakers Julia Ducournau (“Raw”) and Isabella Eklöf (“Holiday”),

[ad_1] Shortly after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, Tabitha Jackson, then the director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary

[ad_1] Just like you, film critics, reporters and editors at The New York Times have opinions about the Oscars and

[ad_1] Lawyers for Ms. Huett, a model, actress and gender equality activist, and a handful of other women who voted

[ad_1] I don’t mean to revisit stale arguments about the aesthetic merits of television, to pine for the lost pleasures

[ad_1] When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the two-month postponement of the 2021 Oscars because of

[ad_1] A folk tale turns existential in “You Will Die at Twenty,” the rapturous debut feature by the Sudanese filmmaker

[ad_1] The Oscars will be adopting new diversity guidelines soon, but the Independent Spirit Awards are already walking that talk.

[ad_1] Conventional cinematic dystopian futures almost always compensate for their bleakness with nifty gadgets or, at the very least, incredibly

[ad_1] As we settle in for a few more months of homebound entertainment, you may find those once-abundant watch lists

[ad_1] When the writer and director Mike Nichols was young, he had an allergic reaction to a whooping cough vaccine.

[ad_1] “Spoor,” directed by the Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland and her daughter, Kasia Adamik, went nearly four years without an

[ad_1] The drama “Identifying Features” begins with a figure approaching from across a field, his appearance obscured by a heavy

[ad_1] “The Human Factor” presents a cogent and involving view of the Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, mainly from 1991 until the

[ad_1] Successful magic tricks prompt oohs and aahs. Eyebrows go up, mouths are frozen agape in shock as the impossible

[ad_1] “Suddenly, the blacklist had achieved for the writer what he had previously only aspired to,” Mr. Bernstein joked in

[ad_1] In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in

[ad_1] GODALMING, England — Entirely covered by earth, only his face visible, Ralph Fiennes lay patiently in the ground. Simon

[ad_1] ”Hi, I‘m Regina King. And I‘m the director of One Night in Miami. So this is in the film

[ad_1] Most of the time, the 116-year-old movie theater business is rather humdrum. Tickets get sold. Images get projected onto

[ad_1] According to Balram, a wealthy young Bangalore businessman, “the Indian entrepreneur” must be a combination of opposites: “straight and

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[ad_1] First there was Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, the pathbreaking Latina singer who inspired a generation of artists and was killed at

[ad_1] “Some Kind of Heaven,” a documentary co-produced by The New York Times, pierces the bubble of The Villages, a

[ad_1] Matthew Teague is a journalist who’s traveled to remote corners of the world for stories. He covered C.I.A. operatives

[ad_1] Once Luc returns to his provincial town, a run-in with a former teen love, Geneviève (Louise Chevillotte), heats up

[ad_1] This year’s Oscar races are both longer than ever and harder to call: Amid the continuing pandemic, the ceremony

[ad_1] This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others

[ad_1] Lynne Sachs shot the footage that became “Film About a Father Who” from 1984 to 2019, and her ideas

[ad_1] This noxious thriller makes a hero out of Rex (Ben O’Toole), a military veteran who served time after killing

[ad_1] Every seven years or so for more than half a century, the filmmaker Michael Apted returned to what he

[ad_1] The home in “Acasa, My Home” is a wild, marshy expanse on the outskirts of Bucharest, an abandoned reservoir

[ad_1] In some ways, “MLK/FBI,” Sam Pollard’s new documentary, tells a straightforward story suggested by the title. Drawing on long-secret

[ad_1] With each year since it was designated as a holiday in 1983, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has carried

[ad_1] [Here’s how you can get the coronavirus vaccine in NYC.] Declaring that New York urgently needs to revive its

[ad_1] ”I‘m Patty Jenkins. I am the director of Wonder Woman 1984.” ”We need the police here right now!” So

[ad_1] Watch it on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu, YouTube [Read The New York Times review.] ‘Seven Days

[ad_1] COPENHAGEN — Like most of their counterparts around the world, Danish film critics initially greeted “Soul,” Pixar’s first animated

[ad_1] “One Night in Miami,” which will arrive on Amazon Prime on Friday, is a fictional account of a real

[ad_1] Midway through the new documentary “MLK/FBI,” we get glimpses of a Martin Luther King Jr. not often seen in

[ad_1] The director Mikael Hafstrom’s “Outside the Wire,” the latest Netflix combat film set in an exotic location, offers empty-calorie

[ad_1] In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in

[ad_1] Malcolm tries to push Cooke in another direction, arguing that the job of successful Black artists isn’t to court

[ad_1] An opening text in this movie quotes Jane Austen’s words: “What strange creatures brothers are.” No disrespect to Austen,

[ad_1] Martin Luther King Jr. Day, observed this year on Jan. 18, became a national holiday in 1983, 25 years

[ad_1] Neorealism was born in postwar Italy. By the mid-1950s, however, its greatest examples were made abroad. “Mandabi” (“The Money

[ad_1] But the most important contrast is in the comic’s discussion of his own infidelity. Until “Tamborine,” Rock was known

[ad_1] All sorts of challenges arise when holding an awards show during a pandemic, and one of them, as proven

[ad_1] Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows,

[ad_1] Anyone craving pre-stardom sightings of George Clooney, Laura Dern and Charlie Sheen, the top-billed names in “Grizzly II: Revenge,”

[ad_1] In the drama “If Not Now, When?” Tyra, Dee, Suzanne and Patrice have been there for one another since

[ad_1] This World War I story opens on a striking tableau, one that illustrates its title. A traveling shot takes

[ad_1] Last month, Warner Bros. released the coronavirus-delayed “Wonder Woman 1984,” a sequel to the 2017 hit “Wonder Woman.” The

[ad_1] In the book “The Reason I Jump,” published in 2007, the author Naoki Higashida, who wrote it when he

[ad_1] For the first time in half a decade, a year has gone by without a new “Star Wars” film,

[ad_1] “The biggest social revolution in my life, growing up in England, has been the change in the role of

[ad_1] In the time they have spent playing Marvel heroes together, Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany have gotten extremely comfortable

[ad_1] Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies.

[ad_1] The coronavirus pandemic has felled another Broadway show: “Mean Girls.” The musical’s producers, led by Lorne Michaels of “Saturday

[ad_1] Do you worry that New York won’t fully return to what it was before the pandemic? LEBOWITZ I have

[ad_1] The death of a parent, at almost any age, leaves a mark, but the effect it has on very

[ad_1] For the documentary “My Rembrandt,” the director Oeke Hoogendijk assembles an assortment of Rembrandt owners and experts whose interests

[ad_1] This month’s rundown of Netflix exits is lighter than usual — maybe because they seemed to drop half their

[ad_1] Oh, the stains. The staaaains! It’s the stains that truly obsess Drew Barrymore. “I’m a stan for stains,” she

[ad_1] Tanya Roberts, the breathy-voiced actress who found fame in the 1980s as a detective on “Charlie’s Angels” and as

[ad_1] Rudolph encounters various silly side characters along the way, and the most delightful part of the movie for me

[ad_1] Hours after announcing the death of Tanya Roberts, the actress known for starring opposite Roger Moore in his final

[ad_1] It’s hard to keep track of Bruce Willis’s filmography, especially since 2015. In recent years, the star’s IMDb page

[ad_1] At the start of “Death to 2020,” a reporter played by Samuel L. Jackson sits alone in an abandoned

[ad_1] The family drama “Two Ways Home” opens with a whirlwind prologue, finding its heroine in a crisis of her

[ad_1] “Shadow in the Cloud” is the kind of girl-power action adventure in which women can’t just do anything, they

[ad_1] Even as these supporting roles brought her critical praise and awards, Kirby wasn’t in a hurry to find her

[ad_1] The BBC television movie “Elizabeth Is Missing” — a stand-alone episode of “Masterpiece” on PBS this Sunday — contains

[ad_1] Joan Micklin Silver, the filmmaker whose first feature, “Hester Street,” expanded the marketplace for American independent film and broke

[ad_1] A defiant, generically unclassifiable film that dares viewers to question its sensitivity, “Happy Face” centers on a 19-year-old named

[ad_1] Beginning in October, thousands of TikTok creators who were bored at home and missing Broadway created elements of a

[ad_1] New to Disney+ ‘WandaVision’ Starts streaming: Jan. 15 Possibly the most anticipated Disney+ show since “The Mandalorian,” the superhero

[ad_1] For nearly three decades, David Fincher has been making gorgeous bummer movies that — in defiance of Hollywood’s first

[ad_1] As a new year begins, our critics highlight the TV, movies, music, art and streaming dance and theater they

[ad_1] The end of December usually brings a flurry of big releases and a blizzard of Oscar speculation. But with

[ad_1] There are two remarkable scenes in “Pieces of a Woman,” though the first — an almost 30-minute, largely unbroken

[ad_1] Speaking via Zoom recently, Ms. Zengel was far gigglier and chattier — which is to say, far more like

[ad_1] Joe Clark, the imperious disciplinarian principal of a troubled New Jersey high school in the 1980s who gained fame

[ad_1] As the new arrival at a violent prison, the young man at the center of “Night of the Kings”

[ad_1] Midway through “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the new Netflix drama based on August Wilson’s acclaimed stage play, the title

[ad_1] When a housing authority can’t provide the residence you need, why not build one yourself? The option obviously isn’t

[ad_1] In a trailer for “Wonder Woman 1984,” the title hero is clad in golden armor. That image had fans’

[ad_1] The lead in a romance may seem like a prize for most actors, but the star of the new

[ad_1] STEVENS Doing a lot of this stuff does feel like homework to us, even if it might be interesting

[ad_1] The love story in the touching, simple Taiwanese drama “Your Name Engraved Herein” unfolds at a Catholic high school

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Walter Hamada is not a typical superhero wrangler. He doesn’t have a booming, fanboy-in-chief personality. His

[ad_1] Nowadays, if you want a selection of news stories culled from various publications, you can use a cellphone app.

[ad_1] A hard candy with a sour center, “Promising Young Woman” turns sociopathy into a style and trauma into a

[ad_1] When Wonder Woman first hit the big screen in 2017, the possibilities for the character felt endless. After 76

[ad_1] Bryan Fogel’s first documentary, “Icarus,” helped uncover the Russian doping scandal that led to the country’s expulsion from the

[ad_1] Many performers are relying on charity. The Actors Fund, a service organization for the arts, has raised and distributed

[ad_1] Pixar’s animators have a history of achieving impressive feats, making characters and textures feel more authentic in increasingly complex

[ad_1] Joe, a jazzman like his late father, is at a crossroads. No longer young — though we don’t know

[ad_1] Do people expect you to be big and boisterous in real life because they’ve seen you play those kinds

[ad_1] Not every Carey Mulligan movie begins with a Charli XCX song, but maybe more of them should. When “Promising

[ad_1] A cinematic retelling of the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi requires no embellishments. The raw facts are

[ad_1] “DNA,” the fifth feature from the French actress and filmmaker Maïwenn, opens in clamor and closes in calm. In

[ad_1] ROME — Carlo Collodi’s “Pinocchio” is one of the world’s best-loved children’s books, translated into over 280 languages and

[ad_1] Music Kali Uchis In 2018, Kali Uchis released a debut album titled “Isolation.” Clearly she was ahead of her

[ad_1] He recalled that when he was making “Up,” he worried about how the design of the Asian-American scout Russell

[ad_1] Desire and dreams meet beautifully in “Sylvie’s Love,” an old-fashioned romance for 21st-century hearts. Modestly scaled yet emotionally expansive,

[ad_1] It’s always difficult to lose a favorite actor or a beloved musician. But in 2020, a year of crisis

[ad_1] For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business,

[ad_1] So is there actual footage of Ariana Grande cleaning up dog poop? And why was Kristin Chenoweth on FaceTime

[ad_1] It’s been tough to watch movies in 2020 and not project our frustrations and anxieties onto the screen. Maybe

[ad_1] “Nasrin,” a surreptitiously filmed documentary about the imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, offers a strangely cheerful portrait

[ad_1] In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in

[ad_1] A nation riven by racial violence, an industry with a history of exploiting Black culture, white executives eager to

[ad_1] The Berlin Film Festival, which was scheduled to start Feb. 11, has been postponed because of the coronavirus, its

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is starting to feel a little cursed. Since the project

[ad_1] Hi I’m George C. Wolfe, and I’m the director of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” “You’re supposed to play the

[ad_1] LONDON — Barbara Windsor, a star of the “Carry On” films and the long-running BBC soap opera “EastEnders,” whose

[ad_1] I gasped so loudly, it sounded like Judy Garland had shown up at my Christmas party. It happened during

[ad_1] A moment I barely noticed in the 2019 Broadway production of David Byrne’s “American Utopia” jumped out at me

[ad_1] Jeremy Bulloch, the British actor who helped to make Boba Fett, the menacing bounty hunter with the dented helmet

[ad_1] SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Ki-duk, ​an internationally celebrated South Korean film director who made movies ​about people ​on

[ad_1] She also represents the old school — an established star who works in a Southern style that Levee thinks

[ad_1] The murder in “The Art of the Political Murder,” a documentary based on the book of the same title

[ad_1] Early in Michael Mann’s 1995 crime drama “Heat,” his protagonist destroys a television set. It makes sense in the

[ad_1] The movies still feel like Sundance. But without the snow, the parties and all those packed premieres, will Sundance

[ad_1] The actor Tom Cruise recently erupted at crew members on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7” over a breach

[ad_1] The 1977 “Saturday Night Fever” album, a two-LP anthology of disco hits and Bee Gees songs, became a record-setting

[ad_1] You ever hear the one about the guy who asked for “Of Human Bondage” at the video store and

[ad_1] The everyday hopes and heartbreaks of African-Americans were dramatized in August Wilson’s 10-play American Century Cycle. And every year,

[ad_1] Few authors have had a better shake at the movies than John le Carré, whose sophisticated novels of Cold

[ad_1] As the oft-quoted line from “The Dark Knight” goes, “You either die a hero or you live long enough

[ad_1] After a report The New York Times published on Friday detailing a lawsuit the performer FKA twigs filed against

[ad_1] Surviving a car crash, even a minor one, is a singular experience. In “Wander Darkly,” a film written and

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — When Jason Kilar began his tenure as the chief executive of Hulu in July 2007, some

[ad_1] Tommy Lister, a 6-foot-5-inch actor nicknamed Tiny who played the hulking neighborhood bully Deebo in the “Friday” films, has

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — A significant expansion of the “Star Wars” universe. Tom Hanks as Geppetto in a live-action “Pinocchio,”

[ad_1] Will the adorable couple adopt a baby in time to celebrate Christmas with Mom and Dad and the neighborhood

[ad_1] Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk in the Marvel movies, will also appear, along with Tim Roth, who played

[ad_1] During her second day ever on a film set, Jo Ellen Pellman came face to face with an irate

[ad_1] But living with him became frightening, she said. The lawsuit says that he kept a loaded firearm by the

[ad_1] A significant portion of the presentation was dedicated to Star, which will be stocked with programming from Disney properties

[ad_1] Set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan civil war, “Funny Boy” centers on a protagonist who is effectively

[ad_1] Early in Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom,” a Broadway flack starts reading the reviews of a newly opened show about

[ad_1] The two women who smeared a nerve agent on the face of Kim Jong-nam, the half brother of the

[ad_1] When the British filmmaker Steve McQueen conceived the five films he collectively named “Small Axe,” he could not have

[ad_1] “Dear White American Theater.” So opened the scathing statement released on June 8 and signed by some of our

[ad_1] A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, her two college buddies and her nephew walk into a cruise ship’s bar … The

[ad_1] Following his 2014 film “Happiness,” which profiles Peyangki, a boy in a Bhutanese monastery, director Thomas Balmès returned to

[ad_1] While making her 2016 album “The Hope Six Demolition Project,” the musician PJ Harvey did something rare: She opened

[ad_1] The end of the year means the end of licensing contracts for the streaming services, so this month’s Netflix

[ad_1] The 97-year-old studio, the ancestral home of Humphrey Bogart (“Casablanca”) and Bette Davis (“Now, Voyager”), suddenly finds itself at

[ad_1] “She loved it — it was one of her favorite roles,” Ms. Robinson recalled the actress as telling her.

[ad_1] Screenwriting — a torturous act practiced in solitude while staring at a screen or typewriter, punctuated by a neurosis

[ad_1] The year before, she had been cast as Mastroianni’s wife in “Oggi, Domani, Dopodomani” (1965), a comedy about a

[ad_1] “She picks the guy who is the epitome of the auteur in America and tears down his one great

[ad_1] David Fincher’s new Netflix drama “Mank” explores how Herman J. Mankiewicz came to co-write the celebrated screenplay for “Citizen

[ad_1] In a film scene that has roiled a segment of the Chinese moviegoing public, two American soldiers share a

[ad_1] Around a third of the way into this lengthy, discursive, at times deliberately shambolic documentary about the Irish singer-songwriter

[ad_1] Warren Berlinger, whose career as a character actor spanned more than six decades and featured myriad roles in film

[ad_1] Theaters would normally be packed this time of year with folks assembled to watch revered holiday films like “It’s

[ad_1] LONDON — The family of Roald Dahl has apologized for “the lasting and understanding hurt” caused by anti-Semitic comments

[ad_1] In Thomas Vinterberg’s new film “Another Round,” four Danish men, all schoolteachers, embark on a pseudoscientific quest: to see

[ad_1] It was a framed as a singular event, and theater owners, desperate to fill screens with appealing content, happily

[ad_1] Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes

[ad_1] Creating an audioscape for a movie about a musician losing his hearing is more complicated than it may seem.

[ad_1] This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others

[ad_1] There’s only one name in the title, but David Fincher’s “Mank” (on Netflix) features a full gallery of movers

[ad_1] Are fairy godmothers obsolete? Ask anyone: Princes on steeds rarely come around anymore, and all our ball gowns just

[ad_1] COPENHAGEN — In the opening scene of the Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s new film, “Another Round,” a group of

[ad_1] Jessica Frances Dukes and Marylouise Burke, Season 3 of “Ozark” “Ozark” is the end of a Shakespearean tragedy with

[ad_1] Chief among them, perhaps, is the 65-year-old actor Denzel Washington, a producer of the new “Ma Rainey” film and

[ad_1] Manohla Dargis | A.O. Scott Manohla Dargis I Watched Until My Eyes Bled It was a year of watching

[ad_1] In August, hundreds of actors excoriated the health plan of the American union for professional television and film actors

[ad_1] Why did so many jazz greats die young? Asked this question, the singer Billie Holiday responded, “We try to

[ad_1] The director David Osit’s documentary “Mayor” indirectly deals with the prospect of Palestinian statehood by looking at the concept

[ad_1] Earth’s last surviving Bee Gee was calling from his home studio in South Florida, just steps from the waters

[ad_1] The longtime home of the author J.R.R. Tolkien is about to re-enter the market, and a crowdfunding campaign has

[ad_1] The Nevada obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Quincy Fortier had blue eyes, a beaked nose and a bullish drive to work until

[ad_1] This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others

[ad_1] While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the

[ad_1] Like many of us, Momona Tamada, 14, has been trying to make the best of a tough year. Sure,

[ad_1] Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of

[ad_1] With Broadway and theaters across the country idle because of the coronavirus, some actors, producers and prop designers have

[ad_1] A lot of “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square” bears some resemblance to the familiar — greeting cards, mulled

[ad_1] FALCONE It read like a wonderful throwback movie, where it’s super funny and high concept, but there’s also a

[ad_1] No one imagines that a Christmas rom-com can be renegade. And yet “Happiest Season,” about a couple played by

[ad_1] The goats didn’t want to go out in the morning, Amanda Seyfried said. There was one in particular that

[ad_1] Dave Prowse, the British actor who gave the imposing physical presence — but not the voice — to Darth

[ad_1] To induce dread in a paranoiac, one need only invoke two acronyms: C.I.A. and LSD Along with a third

[ad_1] In this new Melissa McCarthy comedy, directed by her husband and frequent collaborator Ben Falcone (who has a supporting

[ad_1] This motion picture, in which an unusually coiffed performer, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, sings some Jacques Brel songs,

[ad_1] This documentary directed by Alex Winter opens with a portrait of the ostensibly outrageous musician Frank Zappa in a

[ad_1] It’s difficult to describe the Polish artist Mariusz Wilczynski’s debut film, “Kill It and Leave This Town,” because the

[ad_1] With documentaries a central part of the national conversation, it’s easy to forget that not only were they once

[ad_1] Written in 1877, Anna Sewell’s classic children’s novel “Black Beauty” warned against the abuse of horses. The pristine adaptation

[ad_1] There’s a scene in Ron Howard’s new “Hillbilly Elegy” that approaches the quiet dignity I wish the rest of

[ad_1] “Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions” is straightforward and cozy. Taylor Swift and her two main collaborators and producers

[ad_1] Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies.

[ad_1] “Mosul” dramatizes a 2017 story in The New Yorker that chronicled a self-directed Iraqi SWAT team’s efforts to fight

[ad_1] We all have our holiday traditions. Maybe yours is seeing the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall and gazing

[ad_1] I discovered them when I was at Howard University. I was a freshman, and my mother feared I might

[ad_1] If Mrs. Claus designed Santa’s Village, why isn’t it called Mrs. Claus’s Village? Kate (Darby Camp) gets stuck on

[ad_1] No one would call it a huge leap on the evolutionary ladder, but the animated sequel “The Croods: A

[ad_1] In “Uncle Frank,” the writer-director Alan Ball (“True Blood”) combines several overworked genres — the coming-of-age picture, the road-trip

[ad_1] His aim wasn’t only to recount his mother’s struggles with addiction and celebrate his grandmother’s grit. “Hillbilly Elegy,” published

[ad_1] The Thanksgiving film is not that big of a genre. It turns out watching people pass the yams onscreen

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[ad_1] Tanya Saracho landed her first television writing job on the Lifetime soap “Devious Maids” in 2012. She was a

[ad_1] Hi, I’m Aneesh Chaganty, and I’m the co-writer and director of Run. O.K. So the scene that’s playing out

[ad_1] An early moment in “Shawn Mendes: In Wonder” shows its pop-heartthrob subject in the shower. You’ve seen this one

[ad_1] As the season begins to tilt toward cold weather, it looks like you’ll be spending a bit more time

[ad_1] News photos showed Matty Libatique looking like he’d just been yanked from a barroom brawl; wild-eyed, disheveled, his hands

[ad_1] Who wouldn’t like to spend the winter holidays with good friends at a lavishly decorated palace in the kingdom

[ad_1] Something about the cold and snowy weather seems to lend itself to stories about trains, ones that snake their

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — In explaining why WarnerMedia had decided to release the much-anticipated big-budget “Wonder Woman 1984” simultaneously in

[ad_1] In his brief six years on the national stage, no comic was more popular than John Belushi. At the

[ad_1] In addition to attaining fame as a singer, dancer and actor, Mr. Davis led a much-scrutinized social life. He

[ad_1] Nelly Kaplan, whose witty, satire-tinged French films about female empowerment and revenge made her a distinctive voice in a

[ad_1] Two major entertainment industry unions have settled an internecine dispute over streaming theater, reaching an agreement that should make

[ad_1] Hi, I’m Aneesh Chaganty, and I’m the co-writer and director of Run. O.K. So the scene that’s playing out

[ad_1] Hi, I’m Aneesh Chaganty, and I’m the co-writer and director of Run. O.K. So the scene that’s playing out

[ad_1] The sweeping romance returns. A staple of the 1950s and ’60s, these movies that took audiences on an epic

[ad_1] Soumitra Chatterjee, an Indian actor who incarnated the beauty and fragility of youthful idealism in films by the director

[ad_1] John Belushi’s entrances onstage raise a grin with the promise of unruly energy. But his early exit from life

[ad_1] “Fatman,” the recently released action-comedy featuring Mel Gibson as Santa Claus, plays out in the rural backwoods of Alaska.

[ad_1] The gently observed drama “Ainu Mosir” unfolds in Hokkaido, a northern island of Japan, where a community of Ainu

[ad_1] The last time Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn headlined a movie together, the Berlin Wall was intact and the

[ad_1] Here is a highly select list of films, series and specials due this season on the major subscription streaming

[ad_1] Combining documentary, fiction and elaborate soundscapes into a uniquely experimental whole, the Spanish filmmaker Carlos Casas opens his latest

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — For decades, Debbie Reynolds begged Hollywood to help her preserve and exhibit her vast collection of

[ad_1] While your travel plans may be on hold, you can pretend you’re somewhere new for the night. Around the

[ad_1] Caroline Chou, 19, pins a green screen to the goldenrod walls of her childhood bedroom in San José, Calif.

[ad_1] When “The Witches,” starring Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch, was released last month, a collective groan went

[ad_1] Sacha Baron Cohen may be the star of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” but it is Maria Bakalova who has emerged

[ad_1] “Transhood” is fixated on transition, and therefore preoccupied with time, or at least that seems to be its intention.

[ad_1] While working on an assignment involving facial-recognition software, the M.I.T. Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini found that the algorithm

[ad_1] “Ammonite” is only the director Francis Lee’s second feature, yet already he’s developing a strong visual signature, at once

[ad_1] Having settled into his horror-comedy groove with the “Happy Death Day” movies, the director Christopher Landon repeats his blood-and-badinage

[ad_1] Hoping to deliver a Yuletide story for our dark, divided times, the directors and brothers Ian Nelms & Eshom

[ad_1] Coming-of-age dramas rarely lack for moody characters, but in the British film “Make Up,” anxiety, doom and suspense seem

[ad_1] Sophia Loren is one of those movie greats who doesn’t often find her way into a great movie. News

[ad_1] Is aging gracefully a conscious concern for you? If you accept the aging process and live in the present,

[ad_1] In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in

[ad_1] In September 2019 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, Greta Thunberg made headlines by condemning world leaders for

[ad_1] “Hey, this is David E. Talbert, the writer and director of Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey.” “You might want

[ad_1] Decades earlier, in 1993, the weekly newspaper The Boston Phoenix reported that women at Gloucester Stage Company had accused

[ad_1] Disney will hold a virtual investor day on Dec. 10 to further detail its direct-to-consumer plans. Some investors hope

[ad_1] Like a magic brew thinned into bouillon, “Come Away” folds spellbinding storybook tales into a mundane melodrama. The movie

[ad_1] “The Climb” is a movie about a friendship that stands the test of time through some pretty gnarly events.

[ad_1] Once the terms “animated movie” and “animated cartoon” were virtually synonymous. But since computer animation and other advances drained

[ad_1] An intimate travelogue, “Monsoon” follows Kit (Henry Golding), a software animator raised in London, as he returns to Vietnam,

[ad_1] This picture, “Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds,” is the third Werner Herzog movie to come out in 2020. Yes,

[ad_1] A titanic figure, the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira (1908-2015) got his start in the era of silent cinema

[ad_1] Dr. Libby Torchia’s pandemic breaking point came one morning in May, when she and her boss got into an

[ad_1] It took Steve McQueen a long time to make a film about Black life in Britain. “I needed to

[ad_1] Most nights, from the witching hours of 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., Steve Martin finds himself awake, his thoughts

[ad_1] Through the magic of montage, the city symphonist Manfred Kirchheimer (“Stations of the Elevated”) brings fresh life to sights

[ad_1] A high point of the mostly meh 2013 Superman movie “Man of Steel” was the presence of Kevin Costner

[ad_1] “Do you smell him?,” a little girl whispers in Bryan Bertino’s ingenious chiller “The Dark and the Wicked,” and

[ad_1] Approaching space travel with eyes and spirit firmly tethered to the ground, Alice Winocour’s “Proxima” takes a sadly unadventurous

[ad_1] Set in rural Spain during Gen. Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, “The Endless Trench” tells the story of a man who

[ad_1] Everything in “Operation Christmas Drop” falls predictably into place like children nestled all snug in their beds. Each plot

[ad_1] Like many women, I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to move through the world. How

[ad_1] So little is predictable these days — an achingly close election, a pandemic with an ever more obscure endpoint

[ad_1] The “Fantastic Beasts” movies will have to find a new Gellert Grindelwald. “I wish to let you know that

[ad_1] Surviving 2020 has meant living, simultaneously, in two incompatible timelines. There is, on one hand, the relentlessness of the

[ad_1] Gateway Movies offers ways to begin exploring directors, genres and topics in film by examining a few streaming movies.

[ad_1] Elsa Raven, a character actress perhaps best remembered for a small but crucial role in the hit 1985 time-travel

[ad_1] It’s reasonable that an audience sitting through “The French Connection” would have been pre-exhilarated by “Sweetback” and by “Shaft,”

[ad_1] Made in 1988 but virtually unknown in the United States, “Damnation” is the movie with which the great Hungarian

[ad_1] Fans of Brad Pitt and Jake Gyllenhaal will be disappointed to learn that Netflix is losing not one, but

[ad_1] Will it feel new a few years from now? After all, one moment’s zeitgeist is another’s old hat, even

[ad_1] “Cabaret” and “Cats” are pretty much acknowledged as the zenith and nadir of movie musical adaptations. But “Cabaret” is

[ad_1] The Babadook goes paperless in “Come Play,” a thriller in which a spindly creature from another realm torments a

[ad_1] In 1975, Ted Ngoy fled the war in Cambodia with his wife and three kids and arrived in America

[ad_1] On Sunday, a show with the blandest title on television (“How To With John Wilson”) dedicated an episode to

[ad_1] Sean Connery, the actor who originated the role of James Bond, had dementia in the last few months of

[ad_1] There’s not too much story in “Fire Will Come,” but once the title promise comes to fruition, the viewer

[ad_1] Eddie Hassell, an actor best known for a recurring role on the NBC show “Surface” and the movie “The

[ad_1] The judge agreed with most of that characterization, repeatedly highlighting Mr. Depp’s jealously and saying that his drug use

[ad_1] The judge agreed with most of that characterization, repeatedly highlighting Mr. Depp’s jealously and saying that his drug use

[ad_1] From the mid-60s to the end of the ’70s, the Hong Kong director King Hu (who died in 1997)

[ad_1] If you have children, then Halloween will see a lot more trick than treat this year. Here in New

[ad_1] Connery didn’t want to continue to strike like thunder or, for that matter, lightning. Also, he wasn’t crazy about