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Still fascinated by Elvis: Baz Luhrmann on his bio-pic that helped revive a legend

'I wanted to explore the birth of an artist, and counterpoint it with the big salesman doing the snow job,' the director says

Screen Grabs: Celebrating eternally anti-conformist filmmaker Dale Hoyt

Three tributes to the late iconoclast. Plus: 'Elegy to Seijun Suzuki' and Eastern European absurdist classics at BAMPFA

Screen Grabs: A woman’s place… is atop the ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll

'Jeanne Dielman,' triumphs almost 50 years later. Plus: 'Women Talking,' 'Soft and Quiet,' and 'Corsage' reviewed.

Screen Grabs: Superior ways to goose the rich and privileged

Bolivian climate drama 'Utama,' Georgian oligarch-indictment 'Taming the Garden,' and French classic 'Rules of the Game' hit home.

Screen Grabs: Unpeeling a Glass Onion, opening the Pale Blue Eye

Two thrillers aim to deliver the whodunnit goods in very different ways. Plus: 4 Star Theater is back and full of favorites

Director Laura Poitras is still making her own kind of explosions

Oscar-winning documentarian Laura Poitras used to live in San Francisco, where performance artist Mark Pauline was a neighbor and he and his Survival Research...

Screen Grabs: 2022 shapes up to be Year of the Ass

EO charms. Plus: A pleasant Lady Chatterley's Lover, insightful Empire of Light, and fondly satirical Leonor Will Never Die

Screen Grabs: Don’t mess with brilliant, spitfire director Christine Choy

From Tiananmen Square's dissident exiles to the roiling Mississippi Triangle, the driven filmmaker tackles deep subjects

Screen Grabs: A great artist takes the opioid-peddling Sackler Family to task

Plus: Ukrainian benefit at Other Cinema, left-field twists in 'Nr. 10,' an aspirational Indian rapper goes bad in 'Four Samosas.'

Nikyatu Jusu mines the precarity of immigrant labor for terror in ‘Nanny’

"If every domestic worker stopped working tomorrow, a lot of people's lives would fall apart in this capitalistic system," the director says.