In the Grip of the South, Where the Film Tales Are
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The director David Gordon Green ("Undertow") went to New Orleans last year looking for a movie, which eluded him. But he found a home.
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Some linguists say yes, as more Northerners move south, but others see stiff resistance to 'y'all.'
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MONROEVILLE, Alabama  - When Harper Lee wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird" she could not have known it would be hailed as a classic, much less that it would shape the way her hometown viewed its past.
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TORONTO  - Continuing to tell stories   of conflict between indigenous people and white intruders,   Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce goes to 1980s South Africa   for a feature that is less ruminative than "The Quiet American"   and "Rabbit-Proof Fence," and more likely to connect, if on a   modest scale, with American audiences.
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Sweetness and whimsy fill the screen to capacity in âIâm Reed Fish,â a rural coming-of-age tale thatâs so laid-back that its cast is almost horizontal.
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The familiar story of the innocent soul who travels from the country to the big, bad city receives a thorough workout in this crude attempt at a cinematic bildungsroman.
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It took years for the Vietnam war   to "come home" to U.S. moviegoers, but a series of fall films   will soon test the appetite for cinematic tales about U.S.   politics and the human toll of the war in Iraq.
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The film does, in a way, remind us of the old one.
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Richard Kelly, the director of âDonnie Darko,â returns with âSouthland Tales,â hoping that pop culture and physics play to the faithful.
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Visitors who venture inside âNightmare: Ghost Stories,â a haunted house on the Lower East Side, will encounter spooky spaces inspired by real peopleâs experiences.
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Tales of tragedy and struggle will vie for Oscar attention on Tuesday as an unusual awards season overshadowed by the Hollywood writers strike heads into its final stretch.
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Short stories these days are often less formulaic than they used to be, as a new anthology demonstrates.
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In Charlayne Woodard's latest theater piece "Flight," she draws on the rich oral tradition of African-American folk tales to tell the story of one black community's way of dealing with the ravages of slavery prior to the Civil War.
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Here is the scoop of the month. So we talk about IndianÂs going international in the film world.
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Long gone are the days when a film held on to one story and fleshed it out through the
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Filmmakers never  seem to get tired of portraying the push and pull between the  sexes and what drives people to enter into a relationship.
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Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures has optioned the rights to James Ellroy's recently published collection of stories "Destination: Morgue! L.A. Tales." Ellroy will adapt the material.