Karina Longworth

A procedural on the political manipulation of medium and message, George Clooney's fourth directorial effort is bookended with scenes of media-op prepping. In the first, Stephen Myers (Ryan Gosling), a 30-year-old campaign adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Mike Morris (Clooney), fills in for his boss at the sound check for......

Shot in 2005 — lead actress Anna Paquin, now 29, credibly plays a 17-year-old — Margaret was delayed first by the editing room angst of writer-director Kenneth Lonergan, and then a court battle between its producers over Lonergan's alleged inability to produce a "releasable" cut. Paquin plays Lisa, whose role......

Sarah Palin: You Betcha! is Nick Broomfield's attempt to, as he puts it, "find out about the real Sarah from the people who know her best." Broomfield, perhaps Britain's most committed raker of American cultural muck, has long appeared on camera in his documentaries as both investigator and soundman, burnishing......

When she died in 2009, filmmaker Chick Strand — co-founder of the San Francisco underground distributor Canyon Cinema, who broke new ground with her own films in the '70s and '80s by merging avant-garde style and techniques with ethnographic concerns — left behind a number of never-before-seen works, in various......

Thurs., Sept. 22 A truly historic event tonight at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater: the "re-premiere" of the first three reels of The White Shadow, a silent film written and edited in 1924 by Alfred Hitchcock. The film, long assumed to be lost, was found in a collection of unidentified......