Now, the Final Chapter. O.K., Half of It.
By ROBERT ITO
The “Hunger Games” franchise, as did the Harry Potter and “Twilight” series, hopes to demonstrate the art in splitting a final chapter into two installments.
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Starring Steve Carell and Channing Tatum, “Foxcatcher,” directed by Bennett Miller, tells the true-crime story of an Olympic wrestler and his multimillionaire sponsor.
Gabe Polsky’s documentary, “Red Army,” follows Soviet hockey stars from Olympic glory days to a second act with the National Hockey League.
“Pulp: A Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets,” a documentary by Florian Habicht, looks at the band Pulp through the eyes of its fans.
The “Hunger Games” franchise, as did the Harry Potter and “Twilight” series, hopes to demonstrate the art in splitting a final chapter into two installments.
In the DOC NYC nonfiction film festival, honesty and truthfulness are often in conflict with painful images on which people would rather not dwell.
Animation is an important component in three recent documentaries, and their directors explain why they used that device.
Ana Lily Amirpour creates an Iranian town in California oil country for her vampire film, “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.”
Tales of Southern-style lawbreaking are examined in two movies from 1970 out on disc: Roger Corman’s “Bloody Mama” and Richard Quine’s “The Moonshine War.”
With “Rosewater,” Jon Stewart directs a film about Maziar Bahari, a reporter imprisoned and tortured in 2009 in Iran shortly after the disputed election there.
As chairman, Alan F. Horn has helped turn Walt Disney Studios into a highly successful movie operation, making a record $1.55 billion profit.
Tommy Lee Jones discusses his new film, “The Homesman,” and five films that have personal significance for him.
“Red Army” traces the rise and fall of the Soviet hockey team of the 1970s and ’80s, whose grace and skill were unmatched, even as the players chafed at restrictions.
“Level Five” examines the Battle of Okinawa in the Computer Age; “Verdun, Looking at History” recreated a battle with some of its survivors.
The campy 1960s TV series “Batman” has been restored and released on DVD and Blu-ray in a new boxed set.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw talks about preparing for her role as a hip-hop vixen teetering on the divide between superstardom and destruction in “Beyond the Lights.”
“Light and shadow, the two secrets of motion pictures,” the faded film star tells her companion in “Veronika Voss.”
In the animated “Big Hero 6,” a tech-nerd protagonist rises to a challenge with the help of his friends and a doughy robot when evil threatens their metropolis.
Eddie Redmayne stars in James Marsh’s “The Theory of Everything,” a biographical drama about Stephen Hawking’s health, marriage and other struggles.
In Christopher Nolan’s science-fiction parable “Interstellar,” Earth is dying, and a team of astronauts searches the universe for a new home for the human race.
Brandy Burre stars as herself in “Actress,” a movie about her own life raising children in the Hudson Valley and yearning to reclaim her acting career.
“National Gallery,” a documentary, uses that London museum to expose the heart of the network of relationships connecting art, artists, institutions and the public.
In “The Better Angels,” written and directed by A. J. Edwards, Abraham Lincoln spends his boyhood in a rural Indiana paradise.
Circumstances bring together two seemingly mismatched characters in the romantic comedy “Elsa & Fred.”
Christian Schwochow’s dramas “The Tower” and “West” deal with paranoia in East and West Berlin for very different people in different decades.
“Fugly!,” John Leguizamo’s bittersweet new comedy, mixes narrative and stand-up comedy, embellished with clever animation by Bill Plympton.
In “Virunga,” a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo with rare mountain gorillas is a battleground over oil drilling and conservation.
A young man who happens to be blind begins to indulge his independence and understand his sexuality in “The Way He Looks.”
“Pelican Dreams” is a study of California’s brown pelicans by Judy Irving, the director of “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.”
“A Merry Friggin’ Christmas” stars Robin Williams in one of his last roles.
“21 Years: Richard Linklater,” by Michael Dunaway and Tara Wood, offers a star-studded tribute to the director of “Boyhood,” “School of Rock” and “Slacker.”
In “Sex Ed,” Haley Joel Osment plays a teacher who bounces from one humiliation to another.
“Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain” dramatizes the buildup to the 1984 poisonous gas leak from a pesticide factory in India, taking historical liberties for effect.
In the horror movie “Jessabelle,” a woman returns to her childhood home to recover from a car accident and finds unsettling videotapes of her mother telling fortunes.
The director discusses a sequence from his film.
Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, “Big Hero 6,” breakthrough performances, movie listings and more.
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The Academy Award-winning director James Marsh discusses his newest project, “The Theory of Everything,” which chronicles the life of the cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
In this video, the writer and director of “Nightcrawler” discusses a sequence.
In this series, directors discuss ideas and techniques behind moments in their films.
This guide includes links to the original reviews from the archives of The New York Times.
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