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James Ivory, the film director, producer, and screenwriter whose partnership with producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala practically created a genre under the tent of Merchant Ivory Productions, will step out of his early 19th-century mansion home in the Hudson Valley, N.Y., and make a rare public appearance for a series

For movie theaters across America, from locations owned by AMC, the largest theater chain, to independent arthouse cinemas like The Moviehouse, in Millerton, N.Y., Friday, July 21, turned out to be an impromptu national holiday.

Before Timothée Chalamet was born, or Leonardo DiCaprio set sail on The Titanic, there was the original serious-actor-heartthrob, the first of the "young Oscar-nominated actor with amazing hair" archetypes who seemed destined to take over Hollywood — River Phoenix.

In reality, it may be contested who the most famous woman in The Berkshires is, but on reality TV — and according to the millions of reality TV viewers — there is no contest. You say “The Berkshires,” and most of America will say, “Where Dorinda lives.”

Could there be any bigger publicity buzz than being denounced by The Pope?

The 17th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival, held over four days in Great Barrington and Lenox, Mass., beginning June 1, will showcase two notable documentaries about pioneering female voices whose resonant and sincere work has marked them as masters of American storytelling — the folk-singing duo The Indigo Girls and author Joyce Caro

In the stagnant haze of Californian heat, sensitive 17-year-old Lea (Lily McInerny, in her first film role) spends an aimless summer vacation lost in the ugly boredom of her deadbeat town.

‘Paris Syndrome” was first coined by a Japanese psychologist in the 1980s to label the particular ennui — or rather, kanashimi — that tourists from The Land of the Rising Sun suffered upon discovering that Paris was not a romantic fantasia but a real-life metropolis spoiled by garbage, pickpockets and noisy crowds.