Category: Movies

HUSAVIK, Iceland — On a recent Monday, in the back room of an empty seaside hotel here, a group of locals gathered anxiously around a computer livestreaming the 93rd Academy Awards nominations, waiting to discover…

Forty years ago this weekend, Michael Mann released his first feature, “Thief,” which in retrospect contained several signatures of the director’s work, like stories that revolve around mostly lone wolves, told with intricate cutting, artful…

George Segal, whose long career began in serious drama but who became one of America’s most reliable and familiar comic actors, first in the movies and later on television, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa,…

Sometimes I remember the clunky devices of my youth — the boxy Polaroid cameras, the bricklike car phones, the shrill answering machines, the pagers that could be made to spell an angular, all-caps “BOOBS.” This…

He moved to the Washington area and with a partner opened his first Booked Up store in 1971, dealing in rare books. He opened the much larger Booked Up, in Archer City, in 1988 and…

In “Anatomy of a Scene,” we ask directors to reveal the secrets that go into making key scenes in their movies. See new episodes in the series on Fridays. You can also watch our collection…

Every summer, the Christian teens of Roman White’s hokey musical “A Week Away,” streaming on Netflix, head to Camp Aweegaway for genteel flirting, Amy Grant ballads and the Warrior Games, a multiday olympiad of tug…

Bertrand Tavernier, a French director best known in the United States for “’Round Midnight,” the 1986 film that earned Dexter Gordon an Oscar nomination for his performance as a New York jazz musician trying to…

There have been an awful lot of movies made not just about World War II but about the days leading up to it. So new angles can be hard to find. How about this: a…