Chaz's Journal
R.I.P. Film and Opera Renaissance Director William Friedkin (1935-2023)
A personal tribute to William Friedkin from Chaz Ebert with a compilation featuring Roger Ebert's reviews of his films at RogerEbert.com.
A personal tribute to William Friedkin from Chaz Ebert with a compilation featuring Roger Ebert's reviews of his films at RogerEbert.com.
An article about the African American Film Critics Association's (AAFCA) Honorees at the Special Achievement Awards Luncheon to be held on Saturday, April 11th, 2020 at the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades.
Complete list of winners at the 79th annual Academy Awards, presented Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
The complete list of the 79th Annual Academy Award nominations were announced Tuesday at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, Calif.
CANNES, France – William Friedkin’s new horror film “Bug” begins as an ominous rumble of unease, and builds to a shriek. The last 20 minutes are searingly intense: A paranoid personality finds its mate, and they race each other into madness. For Friedkin, director of “The Exorcist,” it’s a work of headlong passion.
Sometimes a movie opens with such a whoosh that you have to stand back and ask yourself what it represents - whether it has touched a nerve. "Mission: Impossible" has surprised everyone, even its makers, by scoring opening-week receipts in the vicinity of $75 million, a figure rivaled only by Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park."
Film director Robert Altman isn't a stockholder in Twentieth Century-Fox, but if he were, he'd ask this question at Fox's summer board meeting, which will be held here in Chicago Thursday: "When is Robert Altman's new movie 'Health' going to be released?" The studio apparently has no plans to release.