In Michael Almereyda’s funny, ardent and moving vampire picture, “Nadja,” the title character, a downtown-Manhattan descendant of Count Dracula’s, sums up the exquisite suffering of her lot: “Life is ...

The reason Tim Burton is an always-in-work A-list director, while the comparably talented Terry Gilliam struggles to get compromised films made, is that he has an uncanny knack of adapting famous ...