entertainment - "movies"

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, if the movies were a kind of mountain range with a lot of the world's great directors at their creative and commercial peaks, the Nikkatsu film studio of Japan represented a summit you couldn't see. Nikkatsu had been around since the silent era, but postwar pop and a Western influence kicked things up ...

With the Independent Film Festival of Boston rolling across Boston and Somerville later this week (stories, page N13), you're forgiven if you want to conserve all your Local Action energy for that event's parties, panels, and movies.

Homegrown or bred abroad, brief or full-length, made-up or real-life, accessible or obscure - it takes all types of movies to fill the slate at the Independent Film Festival of Boston.

A year at the Yale School of Drama costs $25,735. Juilliard is about $1,500 more. And you don't even want to know what an education from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art will set you back. For aspiring movie actors, it would be a lot cheaper just to study the career of Juliette Binoche. A week with her movies might ...

Every movie eventually fades to black. But very few of them know how to give audiences a grand finale.