Mira Nair

Mohsin Hamid comes home to roost in Pakistan

2013-03-14 06:00:00

Many of the characters in Mohsin Hamid's novels are cultural nomads, hopscotching between the Islamic world and the Western capitalist world, the spiritual and the material, Urdu and English, the undernourished countryside and the teeming mega-city. It'...

Toronto Film Festival to open with Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Looper'

2012-07-24 09:16:00

The Toronto International Film Festival has chosen "Looper," director Rian Johnson's "thinking-man actioner" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, to open its 10-day event starting Sept. 6.�The film stars Gordon-Levitt as a time-traveling...

Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, others headline Toronto documentary lineup

2012-07-31 13:03:00

Ken Burns, Alex Gibney and Julien Temple headline the�Toronto International Film Festival's documentary lineup this year, a program that also features work by Marina Zenovich and Matthew Cooke. Fans of nonfiction film can take in movies on everything...

Deepa Mehta, Mira Nair bring Indian voices to Toronto film fest

2012-07-24 13:02:00

Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair first met in a swimming pool in Amritsar, India,� when they were children, not knowing at the time that they would become two of India's most influential filmmakers. Now the two women, who are eight years apart, will be coming to...

Indian Film Festival highlights emerging directors

2012-04-06 16:38:54

Saturday's TV Highlights: 'The Crazies' on Starz

2010-10-29 21:34:40

The Sunday Conversation: Ewan McGregor: roles with controversy

2009-10-18 00:00:00

Ewan McGregor's next films are surrounded by controversy. There's Roman Polanski's unfinished film "The Ghost," a thinly veiled indictment of Tony Blair. The satirical "The Men Who Stare at Goats," also featuring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges, alleges...

Movie release dates: What's ahead on the Oscars derby track?

2009-10-13 16:33:00

Fox Searchlight's 'Amelia': How did it make it onto the runway?

2009-10-22 16:32:28

First look: 'Saw VI' is slashed by 'Paranormal' while 'Cirque du Freak,' 'Astro Boy,' 'Amelia' flop

2009-10-25 16:32:47

Aussie Charmer

2007-03-04 00:00:00

Jacinda Barrett is 5 feet, 10 inches in her stocking feet. She has a teal-colored tattoo on the inside of her right ankle and her face—girlish and soft on film—is carved and somewhat angular in person. Although her chocolate-brown eyes...

Hey, that ad-lib wasn't in the script!

2007-12-01 00:00:00

Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole had been riding all day, chasing bad guys across the chaparral in the western "Appaloosa." As actors Viggo Mortensen (who was playing Hitch) and Ed Harris (Cole) sat around a campfire filming a scene on the Galisteo, N.M.,...

Director Mira Nair at "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" premiere.

2012-09-08 00:00:00

Actress Hilary Swank and director Mira Nair on the set of Amelia.

2009-10-21 00:00:00

Eye candy galore in this film anthology of love vignettes set in the Big Apple.

2009-10-10 15:05:48