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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] TOM DICILLO When it comes to getting into Sundance, indie legend Tom DiCillo is batting 1.000. Seven features, seven trips to the big dance. In the 18 years [...]

Charlie Kaufman's career is a thing of wonder. You don't have to love every moment of Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to admire their […]

William Vince was a movie producer and owned District 319, a renovated movie house in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was interested in and produced unconventional movies, including 'Capote' and 'Saved'. Details on the restoration of District 319 and other redevelopments in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside are discussed.

AT THE END of the year, all those serious, self-satisfied movies designed to win "Best Picture" Oscars always come out. However, all is not lost. Because--since the tykes of America […]

Our eighth annual list of up-and-coming directors is our most international yet. Of the five American-born helmers who made the cut, two have lived outside the country for long stretches [...]

It's easy not to take Brett Ratner seriously. But there's more to this gifted helmer than meets the eye. Since his 1997 feature debut, the Chris Tucker comedy 'Money Talks,' [...]

SPIKE JONZE WILL EAT YOU UP HE MADE THE UNFILMABLE FILMABLE. HE TURNED 'BEING JOHN MALKOVICH' AND 'ADAPTATION' AND A BUNCH OF TRIPPY VIDEOS INTO PERFECT VEHICLES OF HIS SURREAL, [...]

Byline: Schmaltz, James The Explorer Embrace your legacy--but chart your own course By Jim Schmaltz Name: Philippe Cousteau Occupation: Filmmaker, entrepreneur, activist How he makes a difference: Helping us preserve [...]

The Irish Eye For a generation of filmgoers, Jim Sheridan might as well have invented Ireland. Beginning with My Left Foot in 1989 and continuing through his trilogy of films [...]

Has there ever been a more ambitious movie project? You'd probably have to go back to Intolerance, D. W. Griffith's 1916 epic, to find anything that begins to compare to [...]

Though he doesn't have film credits in the hundreds, his six golden statuettes serve as proof of his producing prowess. Swiss-born Arthur Cohn has stepped up to the Oscar podium [...]

Alexander Payne has no wizards in his movies, no car chases, no flashy sex. In his works so far-Citizen Ruth (1996), Election (1999), and About Schmidt (2002), all written with [...]

It seemed that, after more than 40 years of making movies, Roman Polanski was quietly coming to the close of a rambunctious career in film. He had made classics (Chinatown, [...]

Animation fans know Hayao Miyazaki as the living legend behind four decades of hand-drawn classics, including 'My Neighbor Totoro' (a film originally released in the U.S. by low-budget label Troma) [...]

Picasso, Monet ... Tim Burton? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The visually inventive filmmaker behind 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Batman' and 'Sweeney Todd,' among others, will be the subject of 'Tim Burton,' a major exhibition [...]

The Brooklyn Academy of Music will host 'The Films of Matteo Garrone' in February, featuring movies from the Italian helmer's canon including 2004's 'First Love' and 2000's 'Roman Summer.' The [...]

While superhero movies routinely soar the box office, none has done so like Chris Nolan's 'The Dark Knight.' Not only did the film please critics and create Oscar buzz for [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The most important and original Texas filmmaker to have emerged over the past decade does not hail from Texas. He speaks with a New York accent. He lives […]

To hear Brett Ratner tell it, he's more excited about 'taking pictures' for Vanity Fair than he was to be the subject of an eight-page profile, dubbing him 'the Golden [...]

TIP SHEET What: BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles Clint Eastwood will have no truck with heroes, and it's hard not [...]

Wolfgang Petersen has always been mad about American movies. 'Back in Hamburg,' he says, 'I wanted to make movies as a kid, and I had that bug' of saying that [...]

Hardly hired guns, this year's DGA feature film nominees were singled out for projects that reflect the deepest personal passions, backgrounds and histories of the helmers. Recent guild winners like [...]

Not even a TV movie-of-the-week, with its fetishization of human disorder and woe, would try to get inside the skin of a child molester. But that's what writer-director Nicole Kassell [...]

A Buena Vista release of a Touchstone Pictures presentation of a Blinding Edge Pictures/Scott Rudin production. Produced by Rudin, Sam Mercer, M. Night Shyamalan. Directed, written by M. Night Shyamalan. [...]

The life and works of Johnnie To, a Hong Kong based film-maker are discussed. Films like Love On a Diet, Fulltime killer and Wu Yen fetched him the fame and recognition. To makes commercial as well as emotional movies. His pragmatism and his ability to balance the Hollywood and Hong Kong movie styles are his strengths.

Though the crowd screamed like '60s-era Beatles fans at the arrival of star Johnny Depp, it was unmistakably Michael Mann's film when 'Public Enemies' preemed Tuesday at the Village as [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] West Side Story,' 'Nashville,' 'Midnight Cowboy,' 'Five Easy Pieces'--they don't have much in common, except as I viewed them in my youth, I was transported into a world [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hats off to Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy for creating a joyous and heartbreaking film filled with all the horrors and triumphs of a life of poverty. This [...]

I must admit in advance that I am quite biased on the subject of 'Milk,' having grown up in San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. We were all huge [...]