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Jun 13, 2018 — Can a screenwriter influence—even change—the course of film history? With his script for Rashomon (1950), Shinobu Hashimoto, who turned 100 this year, did just that. The film launched its director—Akira Kurosawa—to world fame and brought international audiences to the glory...

Jun 12, 2018 — Among the six movies Lino Brocka directed between 1974 and ’76, there were three landmark works that changed the course of his career and that of Philippine cinema: Weighed but Found Wanting (1974), Manila in the Claws of Light (1975),...

Jun 11, 2018 — Building on a rich lineage of gothic fairy tales and noirish melodramas, this lavishly stylized curio has an ominous beauty all its own.

Jun 8, 2018 — San Francisco’s festival of experimental film prompts a new taxonomy from Michael Sicinski.

Jun 8, 2018 — Both Italian directors broke from neorealism to head off in entirely different directions.

Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.

Jun 5, 2018 — Both award-winning directors are committing to television projects even as they carry on making feature films.

Jun 5, 2018 — The director’s been talking about his forthcoming thriller, Domino, and the project that will follow next year.

Jun 4, 2018 — For the production design on Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, director Paul Schrader turned to famed graphic designer Eiko Ishioka. The below images of her groundbreaking sets, as well as this excerpted text, first appeared in the 2000 book...

May 30, 2018 — The Bergman 100 celebration brings us two new documentaries—and some terrific artwork, too.