Eric Hynes

The entire time Gianfranco Rosi is talking, he’s drawing. Using a graphite pencil against an unlined notebook, the Italian documentary filmmaker instinctively makes quick sketches to illustrate his ideas and anecdotes. Counting off the number of windows on a ship, he draws three little squares. Talking about the deathly Mediterranean......

Half a century after its debut, The Battle of Algiers has a permanent parking spot in the film canon. After taking home the Golden Lion at the 1966 Venice Film Festival, it was nominated for three Academy Awards (one in 1967 and two in 1969, oddly) and now ranks within......

It’s no secret that some documentary films are either partly or largely staged. Think of Errol Morris’s re-enactments; think of the fake archival footage in Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell; think of documentary granddad Robert Flaherty casting and concocting scenarios for Nanook of the North. That these strategies can also......

Ira Sachs wants to start at the beginning. We meet on the corner of Delancey and Kenmare streets, where the filmmaker's New York story started in 1985. This is where he worked as an assistant to Eric Bogosian while still just a sophomore at Yale, poised between the suburban Memphis......

In terms of looks, charisma and talent, Rashida Jones should have been a star a long time ago. But in terms of what she's ready to offer Hollywood (and what Hollywood finally might be ready to let her accomplish), her belated ascent seems well-timed. Bittersweet breakup comedy Celeste and Jesse......

"There's no right decision for her to make." Sarah Polley is talking about one of her characters, but it sounds more like a view of the world. "I think what's scary is when people make life-denying choices," she says. With more than 50 acting credits to her name and her......

Things Are Looking Up Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his deadpan dialogue style, as well as to his hermetic milieu. With Damsels in Distress, Stillman's follow-up to 1998's......

Click here for Brian Miller's review of The Grey. Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (Liam Neeson). All of a sudden, he hammers down on his pursuer with a lead pipe, digs a thumb into an eye socket and......