The philosophical underpinning of Cloud Atlas is convoluted. This complex novel of six interlocking stories written by David Mitchell is made even more confusing by the three directors who bring it to ...

David Mitchell’s 2004 novel “Cloud Atlas” was ambitious, sometimes confounding, and absolutely riveting. Viewers are likely to find the film “Cloud Atlas” — written and directed by Tom Tykwer (“Run ...

It’s hard to know quite what to make of “Cloud Atlas,” adapted and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski (“The Matrix”) and Tom Tykwer (“Run Lola Run,” “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”) — for ambition ...

It’s a Sunday afternoon in New York, and Tom Tykwer and the filmmakers formerly known as the Wachowski Brothers are talking about Zardoz, that odd and ambitious 1974 science fiction drama most ...