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Locarno 2026: You Don’t Belong Here, Who Is Still Alive, Sixteen Moments of My Life, Letter From My Village
Interviews
A Man of Letters: Kent Jones on “Late Fame”
Tributes
Poetry in the Abyss: Béla Tarr (1955-2026)
Tributes
Swan Song: Udo Kier (1944-2025)
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day
Features
9 Underrated Romantic Movies for Valentine’s Day This Year
Interviews
Empathy Comes With Maturity: Ira Sachs on Passages
Features
Marya Gates’ Overlooked Films of 2022
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room June 2022: Most Wonderful by Nathaniel Missildine
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Official Selection Line-Up Overview with Digressions You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
Interviews
It’s Not My Swan Song: Udo Kier on His Latest Drama and How Much He Has Left to Give
Features
The Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cinematic Universe
Features
Book Excerpt: The Press Gang by Godfrey Cheshire, Matt Zoller Seitz, Armond White
Chaz's Journal
Just in the Minuscule Things That Happen in a Day: Kelly Reichardt on First Cow
Features
Anna Karina: 1940-2019
Interviews
Benny and Josh Safdie on Uncut Gems, Collaborating with Adam Sandler, Furby Bling and More
Features
Roger Ebert’s Celebration of Hispanic FIlmmakers
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 11, 2019
Interviews
Christian Petzold on Transit, Kafka, His Love for Den of Thieves and More
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 21, 2019
Features
25 Underrated Horror Films For Halloween
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2018: La Flor
Festivals & Awards
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Festivals & Awards
Michael Kutza, Retiring Founder of Cinema/Chicago, to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2017 Preview
Chaz's Journal
Wim Wenders to be Honored at TIFF Ebert Tribute
Features
Jeanne Moreau: 1928-2017
MZS
Remember the risks: Filmmaker Ira Sachs talks about the lessons he learned from his debut feature “The Delta”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2017: “In the Fade,” “You Were Never Really Here,” “Directions”
Features
Michael Ballhaus: 1935-2017
Chaz's Journal
The Most Influential Filmmakers of All Time
Interviews
Unlimited Potential: Olivier Assayas on “Personal Shopper”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 19, 2017
Features
Why Critics Should See Bad Movies
Features
Andrzej Wajda: 1926-2016
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2016: Palme d’Or Predictions
Festivals & Awards
Moving Pictures: A Recap of the 2016 TCM Classic Film Festival
Interviews
Critic’s Notes: Owen Gleiberman on “Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies”
Features
Conversations with Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix”
Interviews
Surviving the Shipwreck: Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss on “Phoenix”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2015: “Macbeth,” “Ice and the Sky”
Features
The Moral Unknown: “L’avventura” as Influential Text on “Clouds of Sils Maria” & “About Elly”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 21, 2014
Roger Ebert
Beyond Narrative: The Future of the Feature Film
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 23, 2014
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2014: Conflicted Artists Stand Apart in “Saint Laurent,” “Pasolini”
Festivals & Awards
50th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Full Schedule
Features
Regarding R.W. Fassbinder: Letter to a Young Cinephile
Features
Thumbnails 5/14/14
Interviews
Jonathan Glazer Talks About His New FIlm “Under the Skin”
Features
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: February 19 2014
Features
Thumbnails 11/15/2013
Features
Traditions of Quality: Mark Cousins’ “The Story of Film: An Odyssey”
Features
Thumbnails 9/26/2013
Features
True love and self-destruction: Early Fassbinder on DVD
Features
Thumbnails 7/29/2013
Festivals & Awards
Breaking and Entering: Cannes Day Two
Festivals & Awards
Rival tendencies: As Steven Spielberg gets ready to chair this year’s Cannes jury, we prepare for an alterna-Cannes.
Features
100 Great Moments in the Movies
Far Flungers
The 2013 Santa Barbara International Film Festival (by way of Oklahoma)
Roger Ebert
The Game of Art 3
Roger Ebert
The Art of the Game 2
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1998
Roger Ebert
Fassbinder films capture a frantic life’s desperation
Roger Ebert
100 great movie moments
Roger Ebert
Reflections after 25 years at the movies
Roger Ebert
It’s high tide for black new wave
Roger Ebert
10 Years in the Dark
Scanners
“We can’t stop the dancing chicken!”: Ebertfest photos #2
Scanners
Watching movies again. And again…
Scanners
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Scanners
What makes a movie a “classic”?
Scanners
The Double-Best of the Year
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Opening Shots: ‘Beware of a Holy Whore’
Scanners
Greetings from Boulder
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Opening Shots Pop Quiz: Answers
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Everything we know about Godardin 49 years of NY Times reviews
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Ich bin ein TV-phile
Scanners
Is it anti-American to like non-English movies?
Scanners
Close-Ups: A free-association dream sequence
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Fassbinder or NPR?
Scanners
Mad Men: How to direct an action sequence
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Brüno is WWE wrestling
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Name That Director!
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jim’s annotated best favorite movies of 2008 part 1
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The 100 Greatest Directors of… what?
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Directed by David Mamet
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Termite booster: Manny Farber 1917-2008
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Opening Shots: The American Friend
Scanners
The Telluride Widget!
Roger Ebert
It moves! It speaks! It smells!
Roger Ebert
A few calm words about The List
Roger Ebert
Cannes #2: A magical curtain for Jacques Tati
Roger Ebert
The balcony is closed
Roger Ebert
Cannes #10: And, at last, the winners are…
Roger Ebert
Cannes #3: Fings ain’t wot they used t’be
Festivals & Awards
CIFF: Ready for takeoff
Festivals & Awards
It’s tough to grin and bear it watching this grim lot of films
Festivals & Awards
Todd Haynes’ new film captures look and values of 1950s films
Festivals & Awards
