"Away" marks stunning directing debut for Polley
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The pain of watching a  spouse succumb to Alzheimer's is given a particularly deep and  sensitive treatment in "Away From Her," an Alice Munro  adaptation marking the feature writing-directing debut for  actress Sarah Polley. The film will strike a chord with older  viewers and should benefit from strong word-of-mouth, though  its subject matter will limit wide box office appeal.
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An Australian movie about life before Europeans arrived triumphs at the country's top awards.
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This Australian film could be described by the story's "Rocky"-like outlines, but there is a gripping, downbeat family drama at the movie's core.
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Lou Ye's Shanghai thriller of political intrigue and sighing romance starring Zhang Ziyi is the work of a director with an impressive sense of style.
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Small-budget films may have just started to get momentum overseas but they are doing pretty well in the country.
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An extraordinarily revealing documentary portrait of the Swedish director at his home on the desolate Baltic Island of Faro.
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The young director David Gordon Green's first film with a conventional plot is a moody gothic thriller drenched in myth and superstition.
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The gorgeously rendered  adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel "Atonement" -- and one shot in  particular -- is generating attention.
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Jonathan Glazer knows weird. His stunning Sexy Beast was a provocative but strange being, marked by a powerful performance by Ben Kingsley.
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Mira Nair's film grabbed the audience from the first frame.
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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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"Batman Begins," which opens in American theaters on June 17, is the product of a startlingly British alignment of talent and location.
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The current of intellectual energy snapping through the ferociously engaging screen adaptation of Alan BennettÂs Tony Award-winning play feels like electrical brain stimulation.
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The heist flick predictably debuted at top spot.
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Michael London, the producer of the indie hit âSideways,â got his feet wet with that movie. Now with three films at Sundance, heâs taken the plunge.
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The actress is amking her directorial debut with a five-minute film, New York, I Love You.
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Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.