Ten writers, from a Norwegian parlor to a Lagos courtyard, who taught the modern stage what a play could carry. A century before these writers, a serious evening at the theater usually meant verse, spectacle, and a tidy moral.

Ten directors who, between the 1940s and the 1980s, made cinema a language the whole world could speak. For a few decades in the middle of the twentieth century, the most exciting art form on earth was learning to travel.

Ten women who ruled the screen from the 1930s to the 1950s, turning the studio system's manufactured glamour into an art form, and sometimes into power. Between the arrival of sound at the end of the 1920s and the collapse of the studio system in the late 1950s, Hollywood ran on the star.

Ten leading men, from the swashbuckler to the mumbler, who taught the movies how a hero should look and sound. For roughly three decades, from the arrival of sound to the collapse of the studio system, Hollywood ran on a simple and ruthless idea: the star.

Before Hollywood there was Fort Lee. The grammar of film was worked out on the New Jersey side of the Hudson by people solving practical problems, and almost everything you understand instinctively at the cinema is something you were taught.

“Don’t Touch My Little Sister” is much more than a film in development. It is an ambitious, sensitive cinematic project deeply rooted in Haitian social realities, driven by the vision of director Wegherley Joseph.