The financial collapse of 2008 was brought about by many factors — including governmental deregulation and lack of proper oversight — but make…

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation” sucked up a lot of the oxygen regarding the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar…

Husband-and-wife filmmaking tandem Chris Kentis and Laura Lau made a splash, both figuratively and literally, with 2004’s “Open Water,” which…

A lot of military stories ladle on audio-visual artifice, in an attempt to create an impactful audience identification with the…

While many directors are all too content to mine a seam, German-born filmmaker Wim Wenders (“Wings of Desire,” “The Buena…

German-born director Uwe Boll is a throwback of sorts to the pioneers of traveling, self-distributed filmmaking — part storyteller, (perhaps much…

For his narrative feature film debut, director Jim Loach chose to tackle a sprawling tale of warped governmental policy, spanning three…

Comedy is hard, as the saying goes, but unshakably in the blood of writer-director Trent Cooper, whose latest film, the rangy…

In his new documentary “Sarah Palin: You Betcha!,” director Nick Broomfield indulges in some of his characteristically bumbling, nice-guy provocation, learning…