Film

The comic/filmmaker is the subject of a new HBO documentary, Defending My Life, directed by his longtime friend Rob Reiner. In 1996, Brooks spoke about his early career in stand-up.

In Todd Haynes' new movie, "May December," Natalie Portman plays a famous actor who's researching a role inspired by a tabloid scandal from years earlier. Julianne Moore and Charles Melton also star in the movie, which opens in theaters today and begins streaming December 1 on Netflix. Our film critic, Justin Chang, has this review.

Mstyslav Chernov is a video journalist and filmmaker. His new documentary, "20 Days In Mariupol," premieres on PBS FRONTLINE on Tuesday, November 21. The film will also stream on YouTube, FRONTLINE's website, in the PBS app and on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video channel.

In the new movie "Priscilla," filmmaker Sofia Coppola uses her signature style to look at their love affair from Priscilla's vantage point - a teenager who comes of age during her romance with Elvis.

Adapted from Priscilla Presley's 1985 memoir, the film shows us the cracks in Elvis' Prince Charming veneer — the way he lavishes Priscilla with attention and then suddenly withholds it.

The new comedy "The Holdovers" finds actor Paul Giamatti reuniting with director Alexander Payne for the first time since their Oscar-winning 2004 film "Sideways." In the new movie, Giamatti plays a teacher at a New England boarding school in 1970 left looking after a group of students, or holdovers, staying put through the Christmas break. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.

Werner Herzog, is a writer and director who makes films about extremes - extreme personalities, predicaments and places. He's written a new memoir called "Every Man For Himself And God Against All," which is also the subtitle of his film "The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser."

The top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival went to the French film "Anatomy Of A Fall," directed and co-written by Justine Triet. The movie, which opens in theaters this week, is a murder mystery and courtroom drama starring German actor Sandra Huller as a writer accused of killing her husband. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review.

Netflix's anthology series presents four of Dahl's short stories — all of them written for the screen and directed by Anderson, and all of them featuring Dahl's dazzling, fairy-tale-book visuals.

Maryam Keshavarz's new film is called The Persian Version. It’s a fiction film, inspired by Keshavarz’s life and her mother’s. Her parents immigrated to the U.S. in 1969. Keshavarz grew up in New Jersey. Like the character in the film, Keshavarz identifies as bisexual, which her parents considered taboo and unacceptable. About half of the Persian Version is the story of Layla’s mother, growing up in an Iranian country village, and being forced to marry her husband at age 13.