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Every field of study has its centers of interest and its North Stars of innovation and creativity. For film lovers, there are many names that, since the dawn of Victorian cinema in the 1890s, have been standouts creators of cinema. Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Truffaut, Godard, Cassavetes, Lois Weber, Jonas Mekas, Spike Lee, Chaplin, Andy Warhol, Kubrick, Maya Deren….

The composer and saxophonist, who won a dozen Grammy Awards and recorded with everyone from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell, died on Thursday, March 2 in Los Angeles.

Last year's huge oil spill left an enduring mark on communities along the Gulf Coast. But courts are just starting to turn to the question of who's to blame for the disaster — and who should pay for it.

Ivanka Trump's new book — named after her brand's marketing campaign — is packed with anodyne advice borrowed from others, and a striking lack of awareness about economic and racial realities.

The Obama campaign's post-election report shows that he raised nearly $750 million in his run for the White House. During the course of the campaign, he gathered 4 million donors and his fundraising surpassed the combined total of all the candidates in 2004.

Humans have been speaking thousands of years longer than they have been writing. Yet many assume the written word is superior to the way we speak. In What Language Is: And What It Isn't And What It Could Be, John McWhorter argues that most of our assumptions about language are wrong.

There is very little that raises the volume of a sports conversation more that comparing athletes from different generations. Especially when it comes with any sense of dogma or certainty. Like saying that Joe Namath would be the best quarterback in the NFL today – which I’m not suggesting.

Jewison also directed the romantic comedy Moonstruck and 1967 race drama In the Heat of the Night, which critic Leonard Maltin says "caught lightning in a bottle."

Over the past 50 years or so, Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice has directed just four features. His latest, about a filmmaker who revisits a past project, has the pull of a well-crafted detective story.

ICE says its employees have good reasons to hide their faces from protesters who want to dox them online, but Democrats say masked federal agents evokes "secret police," and the practice should be banned.