Jessica Phillips, Raúl Esparza's leading lady in the new Alan Menken musical Leap of Faith, explains how to get to Broadway by way of Nashville and Boston and what it's like to have a monologue written one afternoon and played the same night.

Austrian TV director Julian Polsler makes his feature film debut with an adaptation of international bestseller, "The Wall," which tells of a woman's physical and spiritual journey while mysteriously isolated on a picturesque Austrian mountaintop.

A legendary beauty and film star, France's Carole Bouquet teams with another legend, French director André Téchiné for Unforgivable, a Venetian-set saga that chronicles a tumultuous relationship surrounded by oversexed friends and companions.

Four years after his documentary "Of Time and the City", one of Britain’s most distinctive cinematic voices, Terence Davies, is back to fiction with an adaptation of a minor Fifties Terence Rattigan drama into a superbly played film.

Rendez-vous with French Cinema @ Lincoln Center: The men behind "one of the greatest blockbusters in French film history" interrupt each other's sentences like siblings, fitting for a 15-year writing/directing team. César-winner, coming to America.

Joseph Cedar’s Footnote is easily the most captivating study of Talmudic scholarship rivalry ever made. Cedar explains how he came to write this father-son story which examines celebrity, the value of prizes and the perils of research.

The Paris-based, Vietnamese-born filmmaker of The Scent of Green Papaya adapts one of Haruki Murakami’s most famous novels, a melancholy tale of a Japanese youth whose first great love is mentally ill. Tran discusses language, finance, motivation...