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, ...

One of the quasi-bohemians in Mike Mills’ gauzy 20th Century Women loves to document ephemera, taking photos of everything she owns. A similar instinct – archiving as art – guides Mills’ movie itself, ...

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 ...

It's no surprise that writer-director Mike Mills' "20th Century Women" is semi-autobiographical, given the authentic, bittersweet, sometimes lyrical, nostalgia-baked tone of the wonderful screenplay.

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 ...

Annette Bening really should have gotten an Oscar by now, shouldn’t she? A consummate professional, Bening has been a star since 1990, when she received a Supporting Actress nod for her turn as a ...