The writer-director Mike Mills doesn’t make movies as much as he curates experiences. Trained as a graphic designer, he draws on an entire visual vocabulary – including still photographs, montages, ...

"20th Century Women" tells the story of Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), a teenage boy living in the late 1970s whose adolescence is greatly influenced by the women in his life: his mother Dorothea (Bening) ...

20th Century Women, a film which chronicles the lives of three women and a teenage boy growing up in Southern California in the changing political climate of the 1970s, has been garnering buzz since ...

If you had an Internet connection last week, you know about Harrison Butker’s commencement address at Benedictine College. Mr. Butker’s comments on women and his interpretation of “traditional ...

I’ve always found that the personal background of directors informs the cinematic language of their work. Writer/ director Mike Mills is no exception. His movie 20 th Century Women is a moving ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Last week, the centennial of the passage of the 19th ...

Past eras come into focus gradually with the passage of time. Long dismissed unfairly as the frivolous “Me Decade” by cultural observers of every stripe, the 1970s recently have been recognized as the ...

Past eras come into focus gradually with the passage of time. Long dismissed unfairly as the frivolous "Me Decade" by cultural observers of every stripe, the 1970s recently have been recognized as the ...