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Sep 15, 2016 — From its formal and technical complexity to its potent social commentary, Mizoguchi’s early-career masterpiece The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum offers a rich learning experience for directors seeking to hone their craft.

Sep 1, 2016 — Actor, writer, and director Illeana Douglas is the granddaughter of two-time Academy Award–winning actor Melvyn Douglas. She has starred in Cape Fear (1991), To Die For (1995), Grace of My Heart (1996), Picture Perfect (1997), and Ghost World (2001). In...

Aug 19, 2016 — Stig Björkman’s intimate documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words illustrates the actor’s private and professional life through selections from home movies, letters, and photographs.

Aug 17, 2016 — The director of Morris for America, a poignant coming-of-age tale about a thirteen-year-old boy and his widowed father, talks about his eclectic inspirations and unique approach to movie watching.

Jul 30, 2016 — Art director Eric Skillman describes working with Jack on the design for our release of Stanley Kramer’s It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as one of the highlights of his career.

Jul 21, 2016 — As part of a monthlong film series, the Austin Film Society is screening Maurice Pialat’s 1983 masterpiece.

Jul 6, 2016 — Alan Arkin is an actor, director, writer, and musician. He has been watching movies from around the globe since he was seven years old. Here are ten of his favorites.

Jun 4, 2016 — Wim Wenders’s road movies, Michael Almereyda writes, are “at once minimal and romantic, austere and lyrical,” focusing on questions—of individuals and society, culture and nature—that Wenders has returned to throughout his career.

Jun 3, 2016 — During the second incarnation of this festival dedicated to movies preserved on nitrate film, Jared Case, the festival’s executive director, talks about his work bringing the Nitrate Picture Show to life, selecting this year’s films, and why nitrate remains a...

Jun 2, 2016 — Kings of the Road is the most “roadish” of Wenders’s road movies, a film about travel as a form of escape for two German men and the transitory bond they form along the way.