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Special Report: Venice Film Festival: For Venice Film Festival, More Seats, Fewer Movies 27 Aug 2013 | 04:53 pm
Founded and run by the Biennale, the world's oldest film festival opens this year on Aug. 28 and runs through Sept. 7.
Gilbert Taylor, Celebrated Cinematographer, Dies at 99 27 Aug 2013 | 07:48 am
Mr. Taylor brought a cinéma vérité sensibility to black-and-white pictures like “Dr. Strangelove,” and also masterminded the bright, clean shots for “Star Wars.”
ArtsBeat: New York Film Festival to Showcase Documentaries on Science and Democracy 27 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
Three series will focus on documentary films at this year’s New York Film Festival.
Brian De Palma Deconstructs Sequences in His Films 26 Aug 2013 | 03:04 am
Brian De Palma, the director behind suspense films like “Sisters” and “Dressed to Kill,” analyzes sequences in his earlier work and in his latest, “Passion.”
ArtsBeat: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Keeps Top Spot at Box Office 25 Aug 2013 | 10:52 pm
At the same time, three new movies quietly arrived in theaters as the summer blockbuster season ebbed toward its end.
Julie Harris, Celebrated Actress of Range and Intensity, Dies at 87 25 Aug 2013 | 08:39 am
Ms. Harris had a lengthy résumé as an actress, with dozens of movie and television credits, including the 1955 film adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel of brotherly rivalry, “East of Eden.”
Texas Monthly: When Hill Country Feels Too Much Like Shreveport 25 Aug 2013 | 07:02 am
“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” is a Texas film in many ways — the setting, the story, the director and two producers — yet most of it was shot in Louisiana.
Ted Post, Director for Film and Television, Dies at 95 25 Aug 2013 | 06:27 am
Mr. Post had a long, busy career making episodes of “Gunsmoke” and “Rawhide,” directing Clint Eastwood in two hit films, and winning praise for a Vietnam War movie, “Go Tell the Spartans.”
ArtsBeat: Screenwriter Questions Whether Tchaikovsky Was Gay, Sparking Furor in Russia 24 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
A prominent screenwriter working on a film of Tchaikovsky’s life set off a firestorm by questioning whether the composer was homosexual.
The Week Ahead | Film: Some Stops on the March 23 Aug 2013 | 10:49 pm
In this 50th anniversary of a pivotal summer for racial equality, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been offering A Time for Burning: Cinema of the Civil Rights Movement.
