Paul Malcolm

"You can't take our company very seriously," says documentary filmmaker Iara Lee, starting to laugh. "Because it's named after a drink." The libation is the caipirinha, a potent mix of fresh lime crushed with sugar and cachaca, a sugar-cane liquor, that is the national drink of Brazil, where the 32-year-old......

In a lot of ways, for a lot of reasons, the feature debuts of writer-directors John Hamburg and Jesse Peretz couldn't be more different. Hamburg's Safe Men is an offbeat comedy about two lovable losers who, through a case of mistaken identity, become involved with the Jewish mafia. Peretz's First......

"An old girlfriend of mine told me that all my films were about a search for God," says writer-director Darren Aronofsky. "It was about a week before she dumped me." A few weeks back, though, as the 29-year-old sat in the outdoor cafe at the Sunset Marquis Hotel discussing his......

List them and they will come. At least that's what the American Film Institute and the home-video departments of the major studios helping to hype its ranking of America's 100 greatest movies are hoping. Behind the AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Films list is a marketing campaign of......

A few months back, while Steven Soderbergh was in the thick of postproduction on his latest film, Out of Sight, his past caught up with him, again. Sex, lies, & videotape was being remastered for DVD, and Soderbergh, who had to oversee the process, says it was the first time......

"There was a definite point when that happened," says English filmmaker Shane Meadows, recalling the moment several years ago that persuaded him to abandon a life of crime and direct his energies toward making movies. "I got caught pinching a breast pump for a single mum," he says, humiliation rising......

For at least one young filmmaker, the thought of industry attention at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference in Austin, Texas, proved too much to handle. Three days into the fest, at the end of a program featuring student films from the University of Texas, a festival......

In Dark City, the latest visual nightmare from writer-director Alex Proyas (The Crow), a race of Nosferatu-like beings manipulates the memories of humans as part of a fiendish experiment. The Strangers, as they're called, also exert their will on the very look and layout of the urban milieu they use......

Robert Aldrich was born into privilege, but he had pulp in his veins. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was his cousin, and it was an uncle at Chase National Bank who landed Aldrich a job as an RKO production clerk in 1941. When he began directing his own films just over......