F.x. Feeney

"At long last," said Akira Kurosawa to the audience at the 62nd Academy Awards, as he picked up his Life Achievement Award, "I am beginning to understand what it is I've been trying to do all this time. I am finally ready to make my first film." The year was......

"I'm bored," Orson Welles told an interviewer in 1981, "with stories that don't seem to be balanced dangerously." He was looking back at The Lady From Shanghai, the fractured, brilliant 1948 thriller he'd made with his then-wife, Rita Hayworth, but he was also rehearsing the spin for an even more......

"Everybody reckons it’s a genre film," says actor Brendan Gleeson, of the new Irish crime film, I Went Down. "I got 10 pages into Conor McPherson’s script and thought: ‘Oh. Right. Irish Tarantino.’ But then Bunny entered, and the script began to break with all predictions. He’s such a chaotic......

''Everyone has their private abyss," says director Brigitte Rouan. "Mine is centered on the theme of cowardice." This should surprise anybody who's seen Rouan's new film, Post Coitum, in which the director herself plays the central character, a 40-something woman in the throes of an infernal, often comedic breakdown over......