In Complex World, Filmmakers Turn to Biographies
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A film about former French President  Francois Mitterrand and another about a German resistance  fighter executed by the Nazis highlight a trend for filmmakers  to use biographies to tell larger stories.
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A new biography and DVD set reminds viewers why the director's films haven't lost their ability to thrill.
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Horrormeister Clive  Barker often ponders how movies and novels require their  creator to choose one path out of numerous possibilities.
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Jordan Harrisonâs brash play turns fragments from the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker who made movies for Hitler, into a story that is funny and thought provoking.
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New books on casting films, Stephen BaldwinÂs faith, Jimmy Stewart, Ellen Burstyn and life in old Hollywood.
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Zoya Akhtar talks about her involvement in every kind of filmmaking.
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Playing a living, universally known figure has to be one of the biggest challenges an actor can face.
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Jordan Harrison turns fragments from the life of Leni Riefenstahl, the filmmaker who made movies for Hitler, into a story that is funny and thought provoking and even a little touching.
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The New York Film Festival, thirty-eight years in the running, continues to command respect as a showcase for eminent filmmakers and up-and-coming masters.
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Most Hollywood biopics mimic the origin stories in superhero comic books: Peter Parker/Bruce Wayne/Matt Murdoch overcome personal tragedy and develop abilities beyond those of ordinary people.
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A new film based on interviews and unpublished diaries is to tell the life of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain.
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The chasm grows even wider between the filmmaking duo who gained worldwide success with movies about the connections among disparate locations and characters &#151; and people are taking sides.
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Bob Balaban's resume is like a mash-up of several people, all of them industrious and bursting with diverse creative skills.
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Being the lowest person on the totem pole and a producer has made James Schamus think about filmmaking from the point of view of everyone with whom he works.
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In âThe Man of My Life,â the French director Zabou Breitman and her screenwriting partner AgnÃ¨s de Sacy examine male bonding from a feminine perspective.
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Documentarians say that the upswing of activism in filmmaking is not merely an election-year phenomenon.
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Numerous breakthrough directors from the 1990s have taken breaks between films â long ones.