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.

Once again, into the breach! Or at least the morass of 2010 movies for a Top 10 list done, as is custom now, with another critic. This year Wilson Morales of BlackFilm.com has rejoined our gentle expert Stephen Schaefer to sift through entries.

Director Farhadi’s film follows two couples, one middle class and contemplating divorce, the other poor and religious, in contemporary Iran through a legal systemthat--Roshomon-like--evokes questions of morality, honesty, truth and justice.

The Artist: legendary Hollywood producer, AIDS activist, and Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company co-founder (with his younger brother Bob), Harvey Weinstein discusses the 2012 Oscars with a focus on Marilyn, Margaret, and Meryl.

Hollywood royalty Joely Richardson (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and Tony Richardson; granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson) takes a regal role on screen as a young Queen Elizabeth in Roland Emmerich's Anonymous.

Three decades after Antonio Banderas and Pedro Almodovar initiated a collaboration that would make then both international stars the duo have reunited for the complex horrors following a psychopathic plastic surgeon set on an incredible revenge.

This true giant of American independent cinema discusses this 2011 film, which stars muse Shanyn Leigh and the magnetic Willem Dafoe, and marks a comeback of sorts with his incisive look at an East Village couple facing the world’s end.