Star!

Feb 27, 2023 — Among the highlights this month is a series celebrating Oscar nominee Michelle Yeoh, an international star who began her career as one of Hong Kong cinema’s fiercest action heroes.

Feb 16, 2023 — Writer-director Marie Kreutzer is one of Austria’s most lauded contemporary filmmakers. After studying at the Film Academy Vienna, she went on to make a number of award-winning short films and features before gaining international acclaim with her fourth film, The...

Jan 6, 2023 — Kazuo Ishiguro is a Nobel Prize–winning novelist, screenwriter, and song lyricist. Born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, he moved to Britain with his parents when he was five years old. His books, translated into over fifty languages, have earned him...

Dec 12, 2022 — The great but underrated Hollywood star Irene Dunne made her transition to screwball comedy by playing the scandal-courting author at the heart of Theodora Goes Wild.

Dec 13, 2021 — Chilean writer-director-producer Pablo Larraín’s features include Fuga (2006); Tony Manero (2008); Post Mortem (2010); No (2012), which won Best Film in the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award;...

Nov 10, 2021 — Over time, the former child star learned to love his work.

Oct 29, 2021 — A lost Iranian melodrama returns, Reverse Shot and Caligari tell us scary stories, and Robert Mitchum is the star of Noirvember.

Sep 30, 2021 — Fresh out of luck in Texas City, a fast-talking porn star aims to get back to LA.

Feb 3, 2021 — The lauded star of film, television, and theater was “determined to do all I could to alter the narrative about Black people.”

Nov 2, 2020 — He became a star in the 1960s as 007 and carried on winning over fresh waves of fans through the 1990s.