James Foley, a journeyman director best known for “Glengarry Glen Ross,” has died.

The Vietnam War produced some of the most classic films of the late 1970s and 1980s.

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy.

Last fall, film director Joachim Trier and the actors Renata Reinsve and Anders Danielsen Lie gathered at a restaurant in midtown New York to talk about why it is that people seem to keep crying during their movie.