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Byline: John Anderson He came up with a mechanism that allowed Steven Spielberg to film underwater. His work on 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' earned him an Oscar nomination. [...]

Byline: John C. Anderson Recall the apocryphal but nonetheless instructive fable of the frog in the boiling water. The story goes that if a frog is dropped in boiling water, [...]

Byline: John Anderson From President Joe Biden's first day in the Oval Office, media outlets have had an eager eye on his decorative choices. Numerous articles have decoded the refurbishments: [...]

His movies included ''Fail Safe,'' ''Paris Blues'' and, perhaps most notably, ''The Front,'' based on his own experience of being blacklisted. Walter Bernstein, whose career as a top film and [...]

These directors are acutely aware of Hollywood's tendency to objectify female characters. So in their own work, they're taking steps to avoid that trap. International Women's Day arrives Sunday on [...]

While shooting ''Aquarela,'' his survey-symphony of water around the world, the Russian director Victor Kossakovsky said he woke up each day with the same thought: ''O.K., nobody has died.'' For [...]

Byline: John Anderson Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave - although her reimagining of filmmaking conventions actually predated the work of Jean-Luc [...]

Agnès Varda, a groundbreaking French filmmaker who was closely associated with the New Wave -- although her reimagining of filmmaking conventions actually predated the work of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut [...]

Michel Legrand, the invariably romantic pianist, arranger and composer of hundreds of film scores and songs that have became pop hits and love anthems, died on Saturday. He was 86.His [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Correction Appended 'Anna and the Apocalypse' is a zombie movie. But it's also a ghost story. In 2009, a Scottish film student named Ryan McHenry went to [...]

''Anna and the Apocalypse'' is a zombie movie. But it's also a ghost story. In 2009, a Scottish film student named Ryan McHenry went to his close friend Naysun Alae-Carew [...]

According to conventional wisdom, audiences for documentaries live on the coasts and vote Democratic. But these are unconventional times. ''Technically, Juneau is a 'coastal area,' '' joked Collette Costa, a [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Correction Appended According to conventional wisdom, audiences for documentaries live on the coasts and vote Democratic. But these are unconventional times. 'Technically, Juneau is a 'coastal area,' [...]

En route to the National Poetry Slam two years ago, the team from the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan adopted a motto: ''Don't be nice; be necessary.'' Now that they've [...]

The Dutch documentarian Leonard Retel Helmrich is a bit of a mad scientist of cinematography, inventing tools, improvising equipment from household appliances, hanging cameras off fishing poles and making shots [...]

Ben Barenholtz's many credits -- though he dismisses them with a wave -- include kick-starting the careers of David Lynch, the Coen brothers and John Sayles. He was sometimes a [...]

Ben Barenholtz's many credits -- though he dismisses them with a wave -- include kick-starting the careers of David Lynch, the Coen brothers and John Sayles. He was sometimes a [...]

Byline: John Anderson It's tough getting a consensus on anything these days, but child sex abuse and human trafficking are generally considered indefensible crimes. So who's defending them? According to [...]

During family movie night some years ago, in an effort to spare my daughters' delicate sensibilities, I lunged for the remote control to stifle ''Jerry Maguire'' during a sex scene [...]

During family movie night some years ago, in an effort to spare my daughters' delicate sensibilities, I lunged for the remote control to stifle ''Jerry Maguire'' during a sex scene [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON During family movie night some years ago, in an effort to spare my daughters' delicate sensibilities, I lunged for the remote control to stifle 'Jerry Maguire' during [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThree of the 10 top-grossing political documentaries ever are the work of the right-wing polemicist Dinesh D'Souza. The most powerful documentarian in the country is the White House adviser [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Three of the 10 top-grossing political documentaries ever are the work of the right-wing polemicist Dinesh D'Souza. The most powerful documentarian in the country is the White [...]

When the hip-hop-flavored ''Junction 48'' won top prizes at the Tribeca and Berlin film festivals last year, its Israeli director, Udi Aloni, wondered whether he'd forgotten about the folks back [...]

When the director Davis Guggenheim was completing the documentary ''An Inconvenient Truth,'' his team had an idea: Let's get a famous singer to write a song to end the movie. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAs the Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline has gone from bad to worse to hopeful to tentative, dozens of documentarians have descended on the Sioux reservation [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Correction Appended As the Standing Rock protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline has gone from bad to worse to hopeful to tentative, dozens of documentarians have descended [...]

When it debuted in 1982, ''Cane River'' was already a rarity: a drama by an independent black filmmaker, financed by wealthy black patrons and dealing with race issues untouched by [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDSocial-issue documentaries are the white knights of cinema -- vanquishing dragons, tilting at windmills -- but they are not intended as agents of diplomacy. Right is right, wrong is [...]

What does James Wan want? ''I think he'd love to do a romantic comedy,'' said the actor Patrick Wilson. ''He's deeply romantic -- which might be hard to believe for [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHaskell Wexler, who was renowned as one of the most inventive cinematographers in Hollywood and an outspoken political firebrand, died on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 93. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHaskell Wexler, who was renowned as one of the most inventive cinematographers in Hollywood and an outspoken political firebrand, died on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 93. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHollywood's prehistoric attitude toward female directors, the filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff said, was epitomized by the recent ''Jurassic World.'' ''That guy had directed one half-million-dollar feature,'' she said, referring to [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Hollywood's prehistoric attitude toward female directors, the filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff said, was epitomized by the recent 'Jurassic World.' 'That guy had directed one half-million-dollar feature,' she said, [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Israeli-Norwegian relations have hardly been a flash point in the troubled history of the Middle East. But a programming decision last week by a film festival in [...]

Israeli-Norwegian relations have hardly been a flash point in the troubled history of the Middle East. But a programming decision last week by a film festival in Oslo to reject [...]

Byline: John Anderson In 1968, executives at ratings-hungry ABC hired two of the country's more erudite public intellectuals to render judgment on that summer's presidential conventions. What they might have [...]

Walking her dog through a sun-roasted film set in Queens last Monday, Lois Gillman said she couldn't believe it at first when she heard about the movie being made, just [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON When he set out to be a filmmaker, Jesse Andrews had to be convinced that spending $200 on screenplay-writing software was a good investment. He admits that [...]

When he set out to be a filmmaker, Jesse Andrews had to be convinced that spending $200 on screenplay-writing software was a good investment. He admits he didn't know the [...]

A survey of recent and coming films will reveal, as usual, a surfeit of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. What's not so usual is the number of people over [...]

Byline: JOHN ANDERSON Neil Young's image, circa 1982, was that of a dark, brooding, introspective rock star who couldn't get along with Crosby, Stills or Nash, and seemed intent on [...]

Neil Young's image, circa 1982, was that of a dark, brooding, introspective rock star who couldn't get along with Crosby, Stills or Nash, and seemed intent on alienating his fans [...]