Tag: film director

Met Gala Exhibit Examines American Fashion, Frame by Frame

NEW YORK—Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one. Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors are mannequins, and the…


‘Notting Hill,’ ‘The Duke’ Director Roger Michell Dies at 65

LONDON—Roger Michell, the British stage, television, and film director whose movies include the indelibly popular romcom “Notting Hill,” has died, his family said Thursday. He was 65. Michell’s family said in a statement that he died on Wednesday. They didn’t disclose the place or cause of death. “It is with great sadness that the family…