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Q: Ousmane Sembene's "Moolaade" was my favorite film at your Overlooked Festival this year. I was so saddened to hear of his recent death.
Q: Ousmane Sembene's "Moolaade" was my favorite film at your Overlooked Festival this year. I was so saddened to hear of his recent death.
Angelina Jolie as Mariane Pearl"A Mighty Heart," Michael Winterbottom's film based on Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl's book about her husband Daniel, a journalist who was kidnapped and executed in Karachi, Pakistan, opens this weekend. I've had my say about the…
A summerlong retrospective devoted to Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni begins at the Gene Siskel Film Center. "L'Avventura" (1960), one of the director's most iconic efforts, screens this weekend in the series. Roger Ebert's Great Movie essay on the film follows.
Peet at NegativeSpace knows it when he sees it. In the 1957 case Roth v. United States, the US Supreme Court held that the First Amendment did not protect obscenity, which Justice William Brennan characterized as a form of expression…
"Any Way You Want It" For years, the go-to guys for this thing of ours ("The Sopranos") have been Alan Sepinwall at Tony's hometown newspaper, The Newark Star-Ledger ("The Voice of New Jersey"), and his former Star-Ledger colleague, Matt Zoller…
"It goes on and on and on and on..." It was 1991 and we were talking about "Barton Fink": Joel Coen: ... I also don't think it's as difficult as some people think it is. I mean, some people come…
View image Emission accomplished! "Ten Movies That Shook The World" (1977 - 1999), the semi-sequel to my piece on "How "Star Wars" Changed Everything," is now at MSN Movies. Excerpt: "Beverly Hills Cop" (1984) It's a comedy. It's an action…
"In the midst of death, we are in life, heh? ... Life goes on..." -- Paulie Walnuts, Episode 86 Meantime life outside goes on all around you. -- Bob Dylan, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" Some will win, some…
"In the midst of death, we are in life, heh? ... Life goes on..."
"One" is the loneliest number. "I'm afraid I'm going to lose my family. Like I lost the ducks." -- Tony Soprano, Episode 1, January 10, 1999 " _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _" -- Tony Sproano, Episode 86,…
