Filmmakers

François Ozon’s 'Frantz,' from Music Box Films, is a definite departure for this maker of gleamingly taut modern dramas and thrillers.

When it came out in 1991, 'Beauty and the Beast' marked a turning point for Walt Disney animators. One of the few cartoons to earn a Best Picture nomination, the adaptation of the 18th-century fairytale showed a new maturity and scope on the part of the studio. And it won millions of fans with its Oscar-winning score by lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken.

Pulling Hitchcockian suspense into the age of social media, 'Personal Shopper' marks one more turn in the career of screenwriter and director Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, the Sundance Selects release opens on March 10.

Ambitious, scheming, virulently anti-Semitic, Csanád Szegedi rocketed to power as the vice president of the ultra-nationalistic, far-right Hungarian Jobbik Party. He resurrected the Arrow Cross, a World War II pro-Nazi Hungarian group, and was elected to the EU Parliament, the youngest delegate ever. That made some of his colleagues jealous—jealous enough to level the most despicable smear they could conjure: that Szegedi himself was a Jew and had no place in the Hungarian far right.