The auteur theory suggests that a film reflects the personality and artistic vision of its director. That may be true for most great movies, but directors such as Mike Leigh understand when to ...

Some of his paintings were of shimmering forests. Others were of disarranged body parts. By Neil Genzlinger Alan Turner, who drew on Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and more in acclaimed paintings ...

Timothy Spall doesn't have the face of your traditional leading man. Rather, he owns a decidedly asymmetrical, Laughton-esque countenance -- the kind you might see running a Dickensian orphanage or, ...