View image You can't really like this "Seven Samurai" movie, can you? It's old and Japanese! Here are questions cinephiles and critics still hear all the time: "Why do you like old movies and foreign movies so much? What about…
View image A family meeting: Who is that sixth man (on the far right)? Hint: It's not Kevin Spacey. Longtime Scanners commenter and Ebert correspondent Ali Arikan, in Istanbul (one of my favorite cities), solves the mystery of The Sixth…
View image Alain Delon as Jef Costello in Jean-Pierre Mellville's "Le Samourai." How un-American! Edward Copeland, mastermind and organizer of the online ""Best" non-English language films poll, reports that Danny Leigh at the film blog at The Guardian (UK) is…
Examine this image: "The Wild Bunch"... or "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"? There's a movie moment for nearly every occasion in life. Take this one from Harold Meyerson -- arguing against impeachment (of Bush and Cheney, anyway) in a…
View image It takes a Village of Damned Critics. Are there more where he came from? Are movie critics too much alike? Not just in their opinions, but in their very approach to movies, or their writing styles? In March,…
View image Number 74. I was not familiar with TotalFilm.com, until I spotted a link over at Movie City News. Thanks a lot, guys. The link was to a pair of articles listing Total Film's choices for "The Greatest Directors…
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Q. In the Answer Man for Aug. 17, Phil Giordano asks about a Sixth Man in “The Godfather” who is never identified when the Corleones plan the execution of a police captain. The person he is wondering about is Rocco…
View image What's a movie all about? If moviemaking were a science, then it would be a science. But guess what? Quite often elements that have nothing to do with the movie itself -- timing, release pattern, marketing, advertising --…
View image Does this movie make you dizzy? Continuing our discussion about the nauseating properties of hand-held, quick-cut, whip-pan, rack-focus camerawork, David Bordwell sends along this account of an unlucky filmgoer who saw "The Bourne Ultimatum" in IMAX: We went…
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