Constantin Costa-Gavras

"Amour," directed by Michael Haneke, played the Cannes Film Festival Sunday. Emanuelle Riva and Jean-Luis Trintignant star, along with Isabelle Huppert....

If I heard that someone was assembling a screening series of fondly remembered films that included the likes of “Road Warrior,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Blade Runner,” John Carpenter’s “The Thing,&#...

A Chilean judge has formally requested the extradition of a former US Navy officer to face homicide charges in connection with the murders of two US citizens after the 1973 overthrow of President Allende, the subject of the Oscar winning film "Missing"...

You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate the content. "A lot of people love to celebrate Jewish and Israeli culture even if they're not Jewish," Weiss said. "We've seen that in our consumer responses." The Jewish Channel has been trying to get on...

Nathaniel Davis, a longtime diplomat who was the American ambassador to Chile when President Salvador Allende was deposed in a bloody coup, died of cancer Monday in Claremont. He was 86. His death was announced by Claremont's Harvey Mudd College, where...

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Alain Corneau Acclaimed French filmmaker Alain Corneau, 67, the French filmmaker who leapt to international notice with the 1991 hit "Tous les Matins du Monde," died Monday after suffering from cancer, Artmedia talent agency said in Paris. Throughout a...

Anyone who's ever spent any time with kids knows that by nature they're conservative, bordering on reactionary. So it's not surprising that when 9-year-old Anna de la Mesa (Nina Kervel) finds herself caught up in the maelstrom of her parents' sudden...

Robert Prosky, a character actor with hundreds of film, TV and stage credits, and whose roles included an avuncular sergeant on the NBC police drama "Hill Street Blues" and a desperate real estate salesman in David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross,"...

It's not exactly Paris in the spring, but for Francophiles, April in Los Angeles means the City of Lights, City of Angels film festival. This year's edition showcases a formidable 20 recent Gallic features, with a strong emphasis on genre, and the...

"Amen.," Costa-Gavras' highest-profile film in years, is steeped in the tradition of the director's landmark film "Z" and his subsequent political thrillers, which combine suspense with jolting exposé. In this instance Costa-Gavras is covering familiar...

Friday February 20, 1998      It must be hard being considered something of a legend as a serious filmmaker and never getting a piece of the commercial pie that is shared so generously with the most hackneyed studio directors. It's enough to drive a...