A. L. Kennedy has won a variety of UK and international book awards, including a Lannan Literary Award, the Costa Book of the Year Award, and the Heinrich Heine Prize. She has written nine novels, six short-story collections, three books...

The director of Broadcast News and Terms of Endearment paid us a visit and talked about some of his comedy favorites, from Oscar Wilde to Albert Brooks.

Jul 26, 2019 — Brought to harrowing life in this film adaptation, George Orwell’s dystopian vision continues to ring true today. But so does his belief in the power of love and hope to overthrow the darkness.

Nov 23, 2008 — The possession of a real voice is always a marvel, an almost religious thing.

Jan 1, 2022 — Ring in the new year with the French New Wave, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and a look back at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival.

Mar 8, 2019 — San Diego–based filmmaker Lev Kalman was born in 1982 and has been making films with Whitney Horn since 2003, when they were undergraduates in New York City. Their distinctive style blends lo-fi 16 mm photography, dreamy electronic music, philosophic musings,...

Jul 7, 2017 — Canadian-born filmmaker Alison Maclean emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager and later attended Elam Art School in Auckland. After making Kitchen Sink (1989), still arguably the most successful short film to come out of New Zealand, and her debut...

Jul 28, 2017 — One of the wittiest chroniclers of modern American life, Albert Brooks talks with filmmaker Robert Weide about how he arrived at the concept for Lost in America. Also: a few words from James L. Brooks.

Feb 22, 2009 — “Let me have men about me that are fat.” —Julius Caesar, act 1, scene 2 Just as Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe admired small, brave men who stick to their principles, I like—in the movies at least—heavyset, flamboyant types who walk...