"Bellflower" is a bellwether, as young directors add real explosiveness to coming-of-age stories

Asian actors play 1.3 percent of leading roles in films. Hollywood still doesn't understand why that's a problem

Pick of the week: A must-see documentary explores the life of China's -- and the world's -- leading artistic rebel

From a devastating, Bergmanesque drama to a dreamlike train voyage and a tender Russian romance.

America went to war for 10 years and we missed it. Now Iraq is back to torment us, as mythology and macho fantasy

Salon spoke with the creators of HBO's hit "Westworld" about what the drama's robots reveal about human morality

Indie auteur Andrew Bujalski gets in shape for this unlikely Texas fable of fitness, weed, money and love

There are no jobs. We deal with the quiet frustration of our recession's Lost Generation. A new movie gets it

Using new technology to teach our history might come with unintended consequences

The man who "invented" the music video was the perfect film director for the Beatles. His exuberant, manic style matched theirs and brilliantly captured an era at its beginning.

Art is not a mirror, but a hammer. To arms, women

Unfairly maligned as the third-best punk scene, L.A.'s importance is captured in this essential new anthology

Hollywood needs more women directing big franchise films. Here are nine who'd do a great job on this one

A paper open to a blood-splattered ad about Kubrick's film was found when Betty died. That's not the only parallel

Computers and editing tricks have obliterated one of cinema's great pleasures: Seeing real people in real danger