Helen Hunt finds two film jobs easier than one
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Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt took a radically counterintuitive approach to lightening her workload as she prepared to direct her first feature film.
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The verdict is out: Gurinder Chadha's Bride & Prejudice has taken a flying start in U.K., faring much better than the two major Hollywood openers .
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HAVING worked with the likes of Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall knows a screen icon when she sees one. So when she was asked yesterday to comment on the privilege
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In Conversations with Other Women, the light story of a couple is bogged down by cinematic technique
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Aishwarya Rai is flooded with offers for films. But her priorities right now are slightly different. She wants to focus on her family duties and wants to do very selective work.
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Cinematographer Ayananka Bose shares the tricks of his trade.
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"Vera Drake," a gritty drama about a housekeeper who performs abortions on the side in 1950s Britain, was named best film Sunday at the 32nd annual Evening Standard British Film Awards.
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Secondary schools in England and Wales find it easier to recruit heads - but primaries still struggle.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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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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Music director Lalit [of erstwhile Jatin-Lalit duo] faced the camera for a feature film this week.
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Two heavyweight movie actresses find a home on cable television. The big winners? Us.
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Ronald Harwood, a screenwriter skilled in the art of adapting complicated books for the screen, defies the numbers by keeping busy.
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Arts & entertainment: Going to the movies doesn't have to mean a faceless multiplex - the little, independent filmhouse is alive and thriving, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Hugh Grant says he likes the partying more than he does the acting when he makes a movie.
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The Western look suits her and she has shot extensively in foreign locales.
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LOS ANGELES  - When Robert Rodriguez signed on last week to direct Universal's "Barbarella," it marked a rare instance of a female-led action film getting off the ground.