Maggie Betts Photo : Skip Bolen/Prime Video “The Burial” “Novitiate” director Betts has been busy in the six years since her nun drama showed Sundance. She worked on an adaptation of “The Days of Abandonment,” then a Pussy Riot movie, followed by Shirley Chisolm project with Viola Davis, “but then that fell off a cliff.” A […]

Mr. Bachmann and His Class In her documentary filmed during the 2016-2017 academic year, Maria Speth follows the title character, a charismatic sixth-grade teacher with a counterculture bent, and his mostly immigrant students in a German village north of Frankfurt. Though we don’t learn a lot about the lives outside school, a few students come into […]

‘Happening’ In southwestern France in the early 1960s, Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei) is a 23-year-old student hoping to become a writer. But when she becomes pregnant, her efforts to obtain an abortion, newly criminalized at the time, turn desperate. The film is based on the memoir by the French writer Annie Ernaux. The director Audrey Diwan’s […]

A laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) is stressed out. Her husband is filing for divorce. Her daughter is depressed and angry at her. And to top it off, the I.R.S. is auditing her. A scene from “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” Credit…A24   Everything Everywhere All at Once’ When she goes in to fight the audit, […]

Of Mice and Men (1939): Making of Lewis Milestone’s Masterpiece out of Steinbeck Literary Classic