Spike Jonze’s long-gestating adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are finally hit theaters last year, a product of his close relationship with original author Maurice Sendak, whom Jonze met fifteen ...

Sendak first learned to draw by copying the work of his brother Jack, who was five years his senior and, according to Sendak, a better artist. “He was the genius of the family,” he says in the ...

FREE DOCUMENTARIES: The Academy, as part of its ongoing Contemporary Documentaries series, screens two free films tonight on Vine: "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak" and "The ...

Southerners turned New Yorkers Hunter Hill and Perry Moore kept a picture of Sissy Spacek tacked on the wall while they wrote Lake City, a southern drama about a reunion between a mother and son years ...

Last night at the IFC Center in Manhattan, co-directors Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs hosted a screening of their Maurice Sendak documentary, Tell Them Anything You Want. It turns out that Sendak—the ...

Arthur Yorinks first met Maurice Sendak in 1970, when Yorinks was 17 and Sendak was 42. "I read an article about him in The New York Times and thought, If I meet this guy, it will help me move out of ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...