A Q&A With Girl Rising Director Richard E. Robbins About the Nine Incredible Young Women in his Groundbreaking Documentary

Academy Award nominated director Richard E. Robbins will be screening a portion of his latest project, the crucial documentary Girl Rising, at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday, January 21st. The film focuses on the story of nine girls from nine different countries born into unforgiving circumstances, with each girl’s story framed and written by a renowned author from her native country.

The film includes the story of Ruksana,

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays From The Credits!

Thanks to MovieClips.com, we’ve assembled a list of Christmas clips that represent the spectrum of emotion felt during this day of giving and receiving, of familial harmony…

 

….and familial chaos…

 

Some of these films are proper classics (who amongst us hasn't relented to It's A Wonderful Life at some point in their holiday history?), while others are classics of the cult variety (we're looking at you, 

Book Shelf: Gifted Actor Stanley Tucci’s Italian Cookbook

Why, you might ask, another cookbook? Actor Stanley Tucci has a simple and elegant answer to that question, which he lets the New York Times in on in the companion video to their profile of him, found here.

Since there are only so many recipes, he says, just like there are only so many plots, it’s about how you tell the story, as opposed to the way the other guy tells the story.