Filmmakers

The late director’s unique vision and the love that his persona inspires make it easy to forget how winding his path to greatness was.

Steven Spielberg gave free rein to his anarchic inner child in this Second World War comedy—and paid the price.

Four years after the release of his Oscar-winning drama, “Minari,” the director Lee Isaac Chung enters the eye of the summer-movie storm with “Twisters.”

The groundbreaking director of “Desperately Seeking Susan” on proving people wrong, learning from Nora Ephron, and the upshot of making a movie without realizing you’re pregnant.

“The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.

We filmed the Taliban courts together. When my friend and colleague disappeared, I started reëxamining his films and photographs.

Since childhood, the filmmaker and “Morning Show” actor has dealt with the ups and downs of depression—a struggle he calls “the Woog.” Now he’s sharing what he’s learned.

The auteur behind “Anselm” and “Perfect Days” on his complicated relationship to his native Germany, a new project he’s been nursing for years, and the beauty of sharing mixtapes.

In Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Virginia Woolf’s protagonist is played by more than twenty trans and nonbinary actors.

The late filmmaker was the supreme cinematic poet of memory, and thus of loss and regret.

How the director of films such as “Showing Up” and “First Cow” became America’s finest observer of ordinary grit.

“Filmmakers for the Prosecution” tells the story of how two scions of Hollywood contributed crucial evidence and made a documentary that was suppressed by the U.S. Army.

Based on an actual case, the first feature by the French documentarian Alice Diop is a troubling story of matricide, racism, and sorcery.

The director Alex Ross Perry workshops his musical “Slanted! Enchanted!,” about Pavement, a band most of the cast had never heard, as part of a larger film project on the slacker-rock crew.

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s short film follows a teen-age boy through the troubling fallout from an intimate encounter with an older woman.

In the “Avatar” sequel, Cameron’s two strains—the vegan who wants to plumb the mysteries of nature, and the hard-core weapons guy—are at odds.

A new biography of the iconic independent filmmaker depicts a cultural force of nature who all too quickly lost her way.

For all its tenderness and brio, the film has the feel of mythmaking—a feature-length promotional video for an authorized biography.

Dean Fleischer Camp, the director of “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On,” checks out the Stettheimer Dollhouse, another famous study in miniatures, and chats about his collaboration with Jenny Slate, his ex-wife and co-star.

The prolific Korean director talks about sincerity, Cézanne, and the nature of reality.