dailies

The Dance on Camera festival does a stalwart service in bringing together a selection of new features and shorts.

The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office told a court what it expects Roman Polanski to do if he really wants the case against him dismissed: surrender first.

The Dance on Camera festival is now in its 13th year, and it does a stalwart service in bringing together a selection of new features and shorts.

The extravagantly talented director Carlos Reygadas’s immersion in the exotic world of “Silent Light” feels so deep and true that it seems like an act of faith.

“The Films of Michael Powell” brings a pair of impeccably restored movies by this pre-eminent British director.

Lawyers for Roman Polanski asked on Monday that his case be moved from a Los Angeles justice system that they say is too seriously tainted by its own misdeeds.

“The Dark Knight” made it into the thick of things with the Producers Guild of America.

“Synecdoche, New York” might be the story of a life condensed into a single minute, but then, it might not.

The surprise of Gus Van Sant’s “Milk” is how artful, how subtle and how sexy its history lesson turns out to be.

Edward Zwick’s stiff, musclebound new movie tells the true story of the Bielski partisans, who fought the Nazis and rescued hundreds of Jews through the darkest years of war and genocide.

Legal motions continued to fly this week in the feud over the coming movie “Watchmen,” to which 20th Century Fox asserts it has the rights and whose release it is seeking to prevent.

Mr. Hingle was a versatile character actor of stage and screen who became accustomed to winning critical praise in a career that spanned five decades.

As companies big and small trudge into January after a dismal 2008, the movie business is quietly celebrating solid if not spectacular results at the multiplex.

The comedy “Marley & Me” and other Christmas films continued strongly at the box office.

The sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativity Media signifies further reordering in Hollywood’s specialty movie business.

When IFC Films releases the Italian crime drama “Gomorrah” in the United States on Feb. 13, it will come with a new endorsement in the credits: “Martin Scorsese Presents.”

”Waltz With Bashir,” the animated documentary about Israeli soldiers and their memories of Israel’s 1982 war with Lebanon, was chosen best picture of 2008 by the National Society of Film Critics, Variety reported.

Art house meets grind house in “Cargo 200,” Alexey Balabanov’s morbidly compelling thriller set in the Soviet Union.

The scripts behind three big biopics walked a line between fact checking and myth making.

Anne Hathaway, playing the central character in “Rachel Getting Married,” gives a brave performance that doesn’t ask to be liked; only to be believed.