In this land of egalitarianism, viewers are eating up this upstairs-downstairs tale — and rooting for the British gentry — with a silver spoon.

In this land of egalitarianism, viewers are eating up this upstairs-downstairs tale — and rooting for the British gentry — with a silver spoon.

Former Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman sees something real in the director's action thriller starring Gina 'Crush' Carano.

No one watches a movie in a vacuum. You don't check your real-world baggage at the door — something for which any good critic must account.

These documentaries focus on outsiders and subcultures in Southern California.

The latest release in the Criterion Collection's Eclipse series, a mid-price line devoted to overlooked auteurs, is titled, with tongue slightly in cheek, "Three Popular Films by Jean-Pierre Gorin."

The Tony winner for her role in 'Raisin in the Sun' is now seeing the play from a director's viewpoint.

The Tony winner for her role in 'Raisin in the Sun' is now seeing the play from a director's viewpoint.

'Postcard,' which Kaneto Shindo, 99, says is his last film, is based on an incident from his Japanese naval service in World War II.

Kaneto Shindo has spent most of his long career telling other people's stories. As a screenwriter and film director, he showed the hardscrabble lives of the have-nots in Japanese society — prostitutes, farmers, migrant workers and war victims. No subject seemed too grim for him to explore.

These days, the Sarajevo-born filmmaker's passion is focused on rebuilding through art his lost Yugoslavia, including a film fest, a village and now a city.

High in the mountains of Serbia sits a fairy-tale village full of wooden huts built in a style that hasn't changed in 300 years. You'll find French legend Isabelle Huppert and Cannes general delegate Thierry Frémaux hitting the slopes and Belgium's Dardenne brothers discussing the origins of a story with a young director after screening their latest, "The Kid With a Bike."