Johanna Steinmetz

In some critical circles, calling a period English film "Masterpiece Theatre"-style entertainment, after the long-running public television series, brands it as an imposter, a small-screen gem unable to carry off...

Jocelyn Moorhouse--the Australian whose 1991 film "Proof" is admired for its unsentimental, blackly humorous depiction of a battle of wills--seems an unlikely candidate to direct a movie version of the...

Getting movie thrills at the expense of a woman with a disability is an unsavory, if lucrative, practice. It's a time-honored formula, which has served actresses as disparate as Audrey...

You can say this much for "Uncle Vanya"--he certainly is well-traveled. Last year he was on New York's 42nd Street. Now, minus some of his weightier baggage, he's down on...

For Mare Winningham, working with Jennifer Jason Leigh on the film "Georgia," screened at the Cannes Film Festival, brought back a memory. Winningham, you see, once sang Leigh to sleep...

Americans are fond of thinking of Australians as our first cousins in the world community. Like us, we think, they are a frontier people, open, politically conservative, a bit rough...

In the opening minutes of "Martha and Ethel," Jyll Johnstone, the documentary's producer and co-narrator, says, "On the surface it looked like we had it all . . . but...

Nicholas Hytner, the British director who stormed Broadway with "Miss Saigon" and "Carousel," has adapted his London staging of the play "The Madness of King George III" for an auspicious...

In "Safe Passage," based on the novel by Ellyn Bache, Susan Sarandon plays the kind of mother who could subsidize psychotherapists for years to come. The only female in a...