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Reiner made a perfect rom-com ('When Harry Met Sally…'), a perfect thriller ('Misery'), a perfect fantasy ('The Princess Bride') and never wanted to be pigeonholed.

A photographer who later became a producer, Singer Reiner collaborated with filmmaker Rob Reiner on civic causes and even affected the ending of "When Harry Met Sally."

From a multigenerational family home to a frontier cottage, houses become key characters in a number of Oscar contenders. Here are the tales behind four of them.

Rob Reiner was a versatile director, crossing genres for a career that included 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'The Princess Bride,' 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'Misery' and more.

Fraser and the film's director, Hikari, spoke to The Envelope about why 'Rental Family' was the right collaboration at the right time and why audiences shouldn't be 'afraid to feel.'

The debut director and her 96-year-old star talk about their new collaboration — and the cut scene that had Squibb asking Johansson, 'What the hell happened?'

Rob Reiner, a Hollywood scion who directed iconic films including 'When Harry Met Sally' and 'The Princess Bride,' was found dead with his wife Sunday in Brentwood. He was 78.

Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Chloé Zhao and more of the artists behind 'Hamnet' detail the making of the climactic sequence inside the Globe Theatre.

Director Paolo Sorrentino and actor Toni Servillo collaborate on another study of political power, this one less explosive and more contemplative.

Bryan Fuller, a TV visionary, makes a belated move to film directing with this skillfully wrought but thin fantasy about a girl doing battle with monsters.

Directed by Joe Burke, the resourceful movie takes a keen, sympathetic interest in the granular details of unglamorous North Hollywood lives.

Directed by Eric Lin, this downbeat, superbly acted drama presents a family in crisis and a worried mother who contemplates the unthinkable.

Writer-director James L. Brooks all but invented a warm, urbane way of telling complex women's stories, but his first movie in 15 years feels retrograde.

'Resurrection' contains one of director Bi Gan's signature long takes — lasting 30 minutes — but the movie is also a euphoric, reference-laden expression of cinephilia.

With 'Greenberg,' 'Marriage Story' and now his Hollywood dramedy 'Jay Kelly,' the Brooklyn native continues to be genuinely (not satirically) interested in L.A.