Director Agnieszka Holland discusses the difficulties of filming, casting and editing her latest, fact-based drama In Darkness which recounts a Polish thief’s transformation when he hides a group of Jews in the sewers to protect them from Nazis.

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 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.

At Venice’s Excelsior Hotel Willem Dafoe discussed his role as in Abel Ferrara’s comeback drama where it was given its world premiere (and which also screens in the 2011 New York Film Festival). What would you do if you knew your end was near?

Born in 1950, China’s Tsui Hark has gained international standing as a producer of two iconic classics of Hong Kong cinema and as an intensely personal martial arts action director (Seven Swords). Detective Dee is a lush, nearly hallucinogenic epic.

On Aug. 21, 1911, Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from Paris’ Louvre Museum and recovered over two years later. Joe Medeiros unearths lost details in a worldwide search a century later in his wide-ranging investigative documentary.

Brendan Gleeson, who stars opposite Don Cheadle in The Guard, corrects misinformation that he began acting at 34 after a career teaching, that he studied at RADA, that he's making a movie about The Quiet Man or that as a married man of four he's gay!

Bill Haney’s compelling documentary The Last Mountain examines the horrible environmental and health effects of mountain top coal removal in Appalachia and the efforts of the locals, aided by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to stop the defiant Massey Energy.