In her exquisite 2016 documentary “Cameraperson,” director Kirsten Johnson explored footage she had amassed during her years as a sought-after cinematographer, assembling a powerful collage of images from around the globe as well as a touching memoir of her mother, who suffered with dementia. In “Dick Johnson is Dead,” Johnson turns the camera on her […]

Fans of Miranda July know what they’re in for when they settle in to watch one of her movies. Since her 2005 feature debut “Me and You and Everyone We Know,” and her follow-up “The Future” in 2011, she has become the kind of writer-director whose work inevitably seems to be described as “quirky.” Whereas […]

Disney has engaged in an aggressive program of brand extension in recent years, reframing the studio’s animated classics as live-action features, a strategy that attracts both nostalgic fans of the original cartoons and a brand new baby audience ripe for enchantment. Some of those second helpings have become classics in their own right – the […]