TOKYO STORY

Anne Thompson muses on the loneliness of the long-distance filmmaker with Lost in Translation's Sofia Coppola.

CONFIRM OR DENY

Peter Bowen reports on Shattered Glass, Billy Ray's tale of journalistic fraud at The New Republic.

THE GREAT RAILWAY ADVENTURE

Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent may be a subtle character drama, but it's got all the epic poetry of the great movie westerns. Nicholas Jarecki visits with McCarthy.

TRACKING SHOTS

Mysterious, compassionate and troubling, Gus Van Sant's Elephant refracts the essential dilemmas of adolesence through the violent prism of the Columbine massacre. By Scott Macaulay.

PRECIOUS CARGO

With In this World, Michael Winterbottom uses a tiny crew, DV cameras and non-actors to depict the global refugee crisis. Matthew Ross reports.

WHO INSPIRES US

Filmmakers name their personal moviemaking inspirations, from art stars to rockstars to circus jugglers to... Richard M. Nixon.