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...

In this two-part interview director Gaby Dellal and actor Lynn Collins consider the challenge of Angels Crest, an ensemble drama that illuminates how the tragedy of a child’s accidental death reverberates in a tiny Western community in the Rockies.

The French writer director responsible for the hit Auberge Espanole (2002) and the charming Paris (09) tries for a Capra-esque tale in My Piece of the Pie which brings a powerbroker and his domestic, a downsized mother of three, into close contact.

The Screen Actors Guild screening at Manhattan’s Angelika Film Center introduced a new talent in writer-director Sam Levinson, whose 2011 debut feature film features a star-studded cast. Stephen Schaefer moderates the post-screening discussion.

Spain’s Elena Anaya’s stand-out role as the captive Vera, the subject of mad skin tissue experiments by Antonio Banderas’ plastic surgeon in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In, easily rates as her most memorable role. She talks about it and them.

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.