At 86, writer Robert Caro is working to complete the final volume of his masterpiece, “The Lyndon Johnson Years“; its editor Robert Gottlieb, 91, waits to edit it. This unique double portrait reveals the work habits, quirks, and professional joys of these two intellectuals at the height of a journey that consumed their lives, and impacted generations of politicians, activists, writers and readers.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...