For most people, the idea of making it in Hollywood today involves a ton of backdoor wheeling and dealing, some backstabbing, and an endless fight to step on others to get to the top. Benh Zeitlin has taken the opposite approach.

We sat down with the Dardenne brothers at Kustendorf to discuss music, tenderness, and the best of young Belgian cinema.

Chicken with Plums, due out in the U.S. later this year, was co-written and directed with Satrapi's frequent collaborator Vincent Paronnaud. Less explicitly political than Persepolis, Plums tells the story of a man who dies over a lost love.

Director Terry Gilliam has one passion in life: to make movies that truly affect his audience. Giving us classics like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil and Twelve Monkeys, few would argue that he failed.

By creating a new city inside of a city, Kamengrad is not about erasing the past of Višegrad, but about building a future.

This Belgian film (in French, with English subtitles) is quite good, though not nearly as good as my favorite spy thriller of all time. To see if you agree with that choice, watch my review below.

Carion's Farewell is that rare surprise -- a political thriller that's more about the emotional components of espionage than it is about the adrenalized mechanics of an operation.

Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall was packed for the opening night of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema.