Hazel-Dawn Dumpert

Photo by Larry HirshowitzSHE KNEW IT WAS THE PART OF A LIFETIME WHEN SHE read the script, but Ann Savage never dreamed she'd end up as one of the great noir femmes fatales. Her performance is remembered with amazement, and written about with awed and awful superlatives: "She has eyes......

Photo by Sophie OlmsteadIN PERSON, FILMMAKER LIZ GARBUS ISN'T WHAT you'd expect. Co-director of the powerful Academy Award­ nominated documentary The Farm: Angola U.S.A., daughter of a prominent civil rights attorney, progressively schooled Upper West Sider, magna cum laude Brown graduate -- the description seems to fit someone a little......

You don't have to come with us, Charlotte -- maybe you want to go to a real movie. --A festival attendee Over the course of 12 days, the 10th annual Nortel Palm Springs Film Festival screened 160 films from 44 countries, including its traditional presentation of foreign-language Oscar submissions. There......

Photo by John GoleaudRock & roll - it's all good fun until someone gets hurt. For punk rock, the end began when Sid Vicious did or didn't stab his girlfriend, then definitely did kill himself. His demise marked what was, like most rock deaths, the end of the party, the......

It's February, and there's a screening at the county museum of a film called My Name Is Julia Ross, in tribute to director Joseph H. Lewis, auteur behind unhinged noir classics like Gun Crazy and The Big Combo. As the auditorium fills, I watch a woman come down the aisle......

"It's so weird to be here now, because I really didn't think it would get this far." Filmmaker Susan Skoog is sitting in her hotel suite, musing not on the swanky room afforded by her distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, but on the strangeness of actually being on a press tour......

French director Agnes Merlet has found fertile ground for her soignee bodice-ripper in the scandalous life of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, the world's first female master painter. Liberally romanticizing what historical record she could find, Merlet, with co-writer Christine Miller, tells the tale of 17-year-old Artemisia (Valentina Cervi), a......

The most prolific film-producing country in the world, India puts out well over 1,000 films annually, a number that includes the nationally distributed, hugely popular Hindustani All-India cinema (nicknamed "Bollywood" for the outlandish formula musicals that have gained minor cult status here), and regional filmmaking produced by and for the......