Across
- 4. California governor with presidential ambitions
- 8. French idea of director as author
- 9. Idealistic to the point of being impractical
- 11. Using very few words
- 12. Israel's longest-serving prime minister
- 13. Oracle of Omaha still investing at 94
- 14. Director who invented the summer blockbuster
- 15. Meta CEO who dropped out of Harvard
- 17. Western director who won four Oscars
- 18. Eras Tour superstar dating an NFL tight end
- 23. Prestigious French film festival with Palme d'Or
- 24. Layered traces of the past
- 25. Stubbornly resistant to change
- 26. German chancellor supporting Ukraine
- 28. Comedian turned wartime Ukrainian leader
- 30. Microsoft founder turned philanthropist
- 33. Modern indie studio behind Everything Everywhere All at Once
- 34. India's Hindu nationalist prime minister
- 35. Former KGB agent ruling Russia for decades
- 40. Sharply biting in tone
- 41. Media mogul who built billion-dollar empire
- 43. Truffaut and Godard's rebellious cinema movement
- 45. Strongly evocative of something
- 46. France's youngest president in modern history
- 47. Florida's anti-woke governor
Down
- 1. Amazon founder who went to space
- 2. Italy's first female prime minister
- 3. Cynical filmmaker who made Some Like It Hot
- 5. Taxi Driver director still making films at 81
- 6. Godfather director who nearly went bankrupt
- 7. In-between state, neither here nor there
- 8. Master of suspense with signature cameos
- 10. Overlapping dialogue pioneer of Nashville
- 12. Jaws and Star Wars ushered this in
- 16. Former Dutch PM now leading NATO
- 17. Jump cut inventor who died by assisted suicide
- 19. Apple CEO who succeeded Steve Jobs
- 20. Redford's indie film festival in Utah
- 21. Bubbly and full of energy
- 22. Perfectionist who demanded 100+ takes
- 27. 1948 ruling that broke up studio monopolies
- 29. Second-term president who returned in 2024
- 31. Glowing with intensity
- 32. OpenAI CEO behind ChatGPT
- 36. Podcast host with massive male audience
- 37. Strasberg's technique of emotional authenticity
- 38. Seven Samurai director who influenced Star Wars
- 39. Weinstein brothers' indie film empire
- 42. Censorship system that kept couples in separate beds
- 44. Gradually and insidiously harmful