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A Life Less Ordinary

One Fine Morning stars Léa Seydoux as a woman seeking to balance her everyday obligations with a passionate affair. Its director, Mia Hansen-Løve, tells how the film came to be

Lukas Dhont

In an interview, the young director discusses his film Close, Belgium’s submission to the Academy Awards, which has earned comparisons to François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows

From “Mini-Documentaries” to Major Ones

Success, for Daniel Roher, is bittersweet. While he’s winning praise and awards for Navalny, the subject of his inspiring documentary is in a Siberian gulag

Frida Gustavsson

The star of Netflix’s Vikings first emerged on the scene as one of the fashion industry’s top models

The Re-invention of John Stonehouse

Succession star Matthew Macfadyen leads a raucous new drama about the stranger-than-fiction story of a British politician who faked his own death in 1974

Family Fiction

The Super 8 Years brings the Nobel Prize–winning French novelist Annie Ernaux’s high literary style to the screen

Mr. Bad Guy

No one was a better thug on-screen, or off, than Lawrence Tierney

Luke Millington-Drake

While the British actor is best known for his Keira Knightley parodies on TikTok, his TV career is taking off

Lighter than Air

Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 short, “The Red Balloon,” is high art for all ages

Diego Calva

For his first role in an American movie, the Mexican actor stars alongside Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie in the Hollywood epic Babylon

Vicky Krieps

The Phantom Thread actress stars as Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria, a role previously inhabited by Romy Schneider and that hints at Princess Diana’s struggles, in Corsage, out next week

Beatrice Grannò

The Italian actress discusses her American-TV debut: The White Lotus, Season Two

The Next Step

Published just before the pandemic, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse captured the world with its message of kindness and went on to become the all-time best-selling U.K. hardback. Now the illustrated tale is headed to the big screen on Christmas Day

The Duke and Duchess of Drama

Harry and Meghan’s new Netflix documentary ignores reality for the higher purpose of demonizing the royal family—and elevating themselves

It’s Complicated

A new film re-examines Tolstoy’s marriage—a subject that has inspired more than a century of commentary, from dueling novellas to literary mock trials

Packages and Kings

How, amid the wreckage of Heaven’s Gate, a couple of young agents rebuilt the movie business in their own image

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gainsbourged

From the perils of aging to the joys of parenthood—and the undertow of depression—the French singer and actress is now happily looking ahead

Go Big or Go Home

A new generation is discovering the pleasures of classic movies at Alexander Olch’s Lower East Side revival house, Metrograph

The King of Lies

Separating fact from fiction in the latest, heavily fabricated season of The Crown

The Jewel Is The Crown

Even though Season Five of Netflix’s hit series is a laughable portrait of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, the show’s critics will keep watching

The Bike Picture

How a long-haired band of outsiders with a 16-mm. camera, $300,000, and “a hell of an idea” re-invented American movies with Easy Rider

Pauline Chalamet

Although the star of The Sex Lives of College Girls grew up in a family of actors, writers, and directors, she resisted a life in the arts for years

Everybody’s Talkin’

How a disruptive new technology—sound—brought an end to the silent era and gave rise to the studio system. An exclusive excerpt from Hollywood: The Oral History

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Based on the best-selling book of the same name, and with unprecedented access to secret military archives, a new BBC drama tells how a group of maverick officers formed the S.A.S. in the darkest days of World War II