Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are

For all Cimino’s flaws, there was still “the vision thing”

Someone has to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Director Betrand Tavernier was able to admire both blacklisted directors and those who named names

A new history of movie directors is full of insight, felicitous phrases and subtle put-downs

Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation