Cybill Shepherd on “At Long Last Love”
Cybill Shepherd recalls working on Peter Bogdanovich’s “At Long Last Love” and the critical drubbing she in particular took in the press.
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Peter Bogdanovich on “At Long Last Love”
As a companion piece to our reassessment of “At Long Last Love,” Peter Bogdanovich recalls the film’s orgins, its forgotten pleasures, and the studio-mandated tinkering that turned it into a box office bomb. He also recalls turning down an offer of help from Gene Kelly, casting Burt Reynolds, and a remarkable encounter with Roger Ebert.
It Really Is De-Lovely: At Long Last, “At Long Last Love” Returns
Peter Bogdanovich’s movie musical “At Long Last Love” developed one of those reputations as a career-killing stinker, but in hindsight, it’s a pretty darn good mix of 1930s tunes with the slightly more realist sensibility of later musicals. And it’s a project with a crazy history. Now that it is out on Blu-Ray, it deserves another look.
Disturbance in a cathedral: HBO’s “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer”
HBO’s Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer lets us look closely at young women who have been the subject of so much conversation that their personhood has almost been obscured.
Now, “Voyager”: in praise of the Trekkiest “Trek” of all
As we mourn Abrams’ macho Star Trek obliteration, it’s a good time to revisit that most Star Trek-ian of accomplishments, Voyager, the most despised object of fanboy loathing in the franchise’s history.
Roger Ebert Scholarship For Film Criticism established at Sundance Institute
At a beautiful and moving event Wednesday evening, the Sundance Institute honored Roger Ebert’s memory and also honored young filmmaker Ryan Coogler. It was an evening for remembering, but also for making sure that Roger’s legacy goes on; the Sundance Institute announced the Roger Ebert Scholarship for Film Criticism to nurture young critics at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Alan Sepinwall breathes fire on people who spoil Game of Thrones plot developments for newcomers; why the new Doctor Who should be a man, again; the late Iain Banks in his own words; John Malkovich saves a man’s life; why you won’t read to the end of anything; like air guitar, but with sex.
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Motion picture film lives after all, er, maybe; what makes a person fall in love with film festivals; breaking down the great direction on Breaking Bad; Alain Resnais’ You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet; Night of the Hunter & childhood fear; great dads in pop culture not named Atticus Finch; Girls, Season 38.
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The evolution of Superman’s cape; the de-evolution of women’s roles in film and TV; joke plagiarist sort-of apologizes for stealing from Patton Oswalt & other pros; David Cronenberg does race cars; Vince Vaughn, salesman; fans bring their Game of Thrones grief into therapy; astounding animated short made entirely from 3-D paper models.
Sundance Institute Honors Roger Ebert and Filmmaker Ryan Coogler
From the Sundance Institute:
Los Angeles, CA
— Last night, Wednesday, June 5, the third annual ‘Celebrate Sundance
Institute’ benefit in Los Angeles honored the life and work of beloved
journalist and film critic Roger Ebert with the Vanguard Leadership Award in Memoriam. The event also honored filmmaker Ryan Coogler – whose debut feature film, Fruitvale Station, was
selected for Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab and went on to win
both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance
Film Festival – with the Vanguard Award, Presented by Tiffany & Co.
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Slut shaming in geek culture; Rock Hudson’s wife tape-recorded herself confronting her husband about his sexual orientation; how Michael Douglas used his own experience to flesh out Liberace; Carey Mulligan might play Hillary Clinton in a biopic; New Yorker cartoonists talk about the delicate art of collaboration; Upstream Color comes to Netflix instant.
PRESS RELEASE: RogerEbert.com Announces Editor-in-Chief and Advisory Board; Pulitzer-nominated film critic Matt Zoller Seitz to curate content for site; Advisory Board Named
CHICAGO, June 4, 2013 – Ebert Digital LLC, owner of the redesigned popular film review and movie news site, RogerEbert.com, has selected Matt Zoller Seitz, a Pulitzer-nominated film and television critic, as the new editor-in-chief. The site’s three-member Advisory Board has also been named and will include serial entrepreneur Brad Keywell, co-founder of several technology companies, including Groupon, as well as award-winning Chicago editor, author and journalist Frank Sennett and internationally known Fortune 100 corporate consultant/coach Janelle Brittain.
Meet the new editor of RogerEbert.com: Matt Zoller Seitz
Please help me welcome the new Editor-in-chief for Rogerebert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz. What Roger and I found refreshing about Matt is his ability to spot and encourage talent in other journalists, critics and video essayists. He mentored them with a benevolent style that helped to bring out the best in what they did. Sound like someone we know?
