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Festivals & Awards
Locarno Film Festival 2026: 17 Urgent Hollywood Blacklist Films
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #1: The 79th Cannes Film Festival Begins!
Tributes
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025)
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: “Bring Her Back,” “The Phoenician Scheme,” “Vermiglio,” More
DVD/Blu-Ray
December 2024 Blu-Ray Guide: “The Wild Robot,” “Conclave,” “Alien: Romulus,” More
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2024
Festivals & Awards
13 Films Illuminate Locarno Film Festival’s Columbia Pictures Retrospective
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Eephus, To A Land Unknown
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
Features
Spit On A Griddle: The Return of Francis Ford Coppola’s One from the Heart
Features
Streetcorner Symphony: The Music of Mean Streets
Festivals & Awards
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
MZS
The Unloved, Part 114: Ludwig
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Friends, Lovers, or Neighbors by Frank Falisi
Tributes
The Consummate Collaborator: Bill Butler (1921-2023)
Tributes
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
Festivals & Awards
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
Interviews
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
Tributes
Richard Donner: 1930-2021
Features
The Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cinematic Universe
Features
Book Excerpt: This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson
Tributes
Giuseppe Rotunno: 1923-2021
Features
Franco Zeffirelli: 1923-2019
Features
Bernardo Bertolucci: 1941-2018
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Cannes 2018
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2018: Edward Lachman, an honoree at the festival, discusses the past and future of cinematography
Interviews
The Silence: Paul Schrader on First Reformed
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2017: Odie’s Favorites and Other Highlights
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2017: “Wonder Wheel”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Features
Cinematic Immortality: Danielle Darrieux Turns 100
Interviews
A Moment of Significance: Nacho Vigalondo on Making “Colossal” to Scale
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2017: “Towards a True Children’s Cinema: On ‘My Neighbor Totoro'” by Lauren Wilford
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 21, 2016
TV/Streaming
Amazon’s “Crisis in Six Scenes” is for Woody Allen Completists Only
Features
“La Lupa”: A Celebration of Anna Magnani
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2016: “Café Society”
Features
2016 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival, Part II
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: April 7, 2016
Festivals & Awards
Preview of 19th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival
Features
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Interviews
Connected to the Soil: Charles Burnett on “To Sleep with Anger”
Festivals & Awards
Telluride 2015: Shorts by Godard, Varda and Renoir
Features
The Young Person’s Guide To Max Von Sydow, Part Two
TV/Streaming
Sex Symbol Without Auteur: The Strange Case of the Gina Lollobrigida Filmography
Features
Thumbnails 6/18/15
Far Flungers
AFI Fest Honors Sophia Loren
Chaz's Journal
Musings on Sophia Loren
Features
Laterally speaking: a celebration of right-to-left and left-to-right camera moves
Roger Ebert
TCM’s 15 most influential films of all time, and 10 from me
Scanners
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
Scanners
The dogs are loose! (Part 2)
Scanners
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Scanners
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
Scanners
The Double-Best of the Year
Scanners
Precious Based on the Movie Female Trouble by John Waters
Scanners
The 100 Most Acclaimed Movies of the 20th Century
Scanners
The best greatest movies ever list
Scanners
Are Movies Going to Pieces?
Scanners
The 100 Greatest Directors of… what?
Far Flungers
Happiness is a good father
Far Flungers
The AFI Class of ’92
Far Flungers
The man who decided to go along
TV/Streaming
A Master Emerges: Conrad Hall and “The Outer Limits”
Roger Ebert
The best train set a boy could want: 2011 edition
Roger Ebert
The best art films of 2010
Festivals & Awards
Berlinale 2012: The tantalizing and the taboo
Festivals & Awards
Complete list of Oscar nominations
Festivals & Awards
Two war films, worlds apart: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar noms
Festivals & Awards
Offbeat family’s tale is powerfully told
Festivals & Awards
Telluride focuses on ’28 classics, guest favorites
Festivals & Awards
Cannes all winners
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Noms: Kramer & All That Jazz
Interviews
Lillian Gish: Happy Birthday, Lillian…
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