As this Taschen volume makes clear, the Master of Suspense remains appealing to cineastes young and old, with 50-plus features underscoring his timeless ingenuity.

Author Gwenda Young makes the case that from the silent era to the golden age, Clarence Brown deserves a place among the giants.

Director Ernst Lubitsch, who was idolized by Wilder and Welles, is brought into sharp focus.

The making of George Stevens' Texas-sized epic is recounted in Don Graham's meticulously chronicled book.

As the newly scaled down yet no less comprehensive Taschen book Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon: The Greatest Movie Never Made demonstrates, Kubrick was nothing if not a completist.

Joseph McBride, who has written magisterial biographies on John Ford, Frank Capra and Steven Spielberg, has put together a collection of his journalistic work through the decades.

Kathryn Bigelow's socially relevant cinema invites a more active engagement with the viewer.

Directors talk about coaxing famous athletes out of their comfort zones by performing off the field

Razor-sharp resolution and higher frame rates challenge directors to think out of the box.

Directors Nicole Holofcener, Gillian Robespierre, Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton discuss how intimate family dramas about dysfunctional families continue to assert their place at the big-screen table.

As we approach the late filmmaker's 90th birthday, directors Jonathan Glazer, Nicholas Winding Refn and others wax poetic on why the legendary perfectionist behind 2001 and Barry Lyndon still matters

With The Looming Tower, directors Alex Gibney, Craig Zisk, Michael Slovis, John Dahl and Ali Selim retrace Al-Qaeda's path to 9/11

Director Todd Haynes and DP Ed Lachman liken their relationship to dance partners, in step to the same emotional rhythms.