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We're so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielberg's “West Side Story” is. It isn't a papered-over modernizing or a thinly disguised retread.

We're so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" is

Steven Spielberg cast NJ teen Rachel Zegler, filmed in Paterson and Newark and collaborated with a theater legend to make his new West Side Story.

Some consider Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane” to be the best movie ever made, and I certainly won’t argue with that. Even if you don’t concur, it’s impossible to deny the power of Welles’ film, which remains as vibrant and brilliant today as it was 80 years ago. Welles, a wunderkind who came to Hollywood after making […]

Stephen Sondheim: An appreciation

The celebrated actress joined a comparatively new crop of stars for the event in New York City, with the film already being lauded as a potential Oscar-contender.

The most important living American playwright has a number of new projects on the horizon — and plenty more to say about how to make and enjoy art in an era of ongoing turbulence.

James Balmont rounds up five films from the 1960s – one of the most radically artistic periods in Japan’s filmmaking history

Stephen Sondheim, the Broadway legend behind Sweeny Todd and West Side Story, has died at the age of 91.

Steven Spielberg shares how working on 'West Side Story' felt like fulfilling a childhood dream.