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France’s New Victor Hugo

The country’s Oscar entry takes on class and race in the streets of Paris

The Godfather of Comedy

After The Death of Stalin and Veep, Armando Iannucci brings a new comedy to HBO, and a new David Copperfield to the screen

All Fact-Checked on the Western Front

How much in Sam Mendes’s film 1917 is actually true?

Cinema Paradiso

In her debut movie, Gianni Agnelli’s granddaughter tells the story of an eccentric family in early 1990s Italy

Elle Accuse!

Protesters vow to disrupt France’s Oscars after Polanski is nominated for his Dreyfus film

Smokin’!

Coming off A Star Is Born, Bradley Cooper will portray Leonard Bernstein in a Spielberg-and-Scorsese-backed production

Call Me!

American Gigolo swaggered into theaters 40 years ago this month and forever rocked the worlds of film, fashion, music, and sex. An oral history

Elizabeth Woodward

The documentary filmmaker, whose latest project was short-listed for an Academy Award, on the importance of privacy in our data-crazed world

La Dolce Vitae

Federico Fellini began recording his dreams around the time he was working on La Dolce Vita. On the centenary of his birth, diary sketches illustrate the filmmaker at his most personal

The Picture of Greed

Michael Winterbottom’s new film is an unsparing portrait of a ruthless fast-fashion billionaire

Josh O’Connor

Between seasons of The Crown, on which he plays Charles, the actor stars in Emma, in theaters now

Suicide Watch

Caroline Flack, the engaging former host of Love Island, is the third person from the show to kill herself. Beneath the Botox and bikinis lie some dark secrets

Disney’s Real Wizard

In his 15 years running the company, Bob Iger brought many prizes into the fold: Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel. One of his other brilliant moves was bringing in Alan Horn

Too Close for Comfort

In HBO’s The Plot Against America, from the Philip Roth novel, the present-day parallels are profoundly disturbing

Return of the Puppet Masters

Satire reborn: Spitting Image will be back. Stars, politicians, and royals beware

Lexi Underwood

The 16-year-old Little Fires Everywhere actress isn’t like the other girls

Rub Your Tummy, Mr. Blofeld?

Is Daniel Craig the world’s oldest rent boy, or just promoting the new (and rescheduled) James Bond?

Back to the Drawing Room

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes on why his new period drama, Belgravia, is darker than its predecessor

Screen Time

The shows to watch in the coming weeks, from a rejuvenated take on Project Runway to an L.A. detective series

Nu in Town

Eli Rosen, Hollywood’s Yiddish consultant, on the set of Unorthodox in Berlin

Drawn and Quartered

On the 40th anniversary of Yes Minister, the wickedly great caricaturist looks back on the creation of those iconic opening credits

All Hail Tiger King!

It’s the strangest, weirdest documentary in ages—and in this strange, weird moment gives us what we crave: fun

Can Normal People Make It on TV?

Fans worship Sally Rooney as the voice of a generation. But will her best-seller translate to TV?

A Vlog to Remember

Anne Frank’s diary is retold as a YouTube video about a teenager in hiding from the Nazis