That's right -- it's on their list. So are "Amelie," "American Pie," "The Dresser" and "Dumb and Dumber." A "panel of experts" has compiled for The Guardian a list of 1000 Films To See Before You Die. Apparently, there's no…
Film critic Richard Corliss offers a hearty "welcome back" to Roger Ebert at Time.com:
Roger Ebert has published first Answer Man column in a year. Topics include: Ousmane Sembene, Scrooge McDuck, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," Phil Spector, Blood-Sucking Monkeys, Cormac McCarthy, "Marie Antoinette," and President Bush's stolen watch. Go ahead. He's got…
View image Hejira: The refuge of the road, a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway... Joni Mitchell is a gifted musician, a great songwriter, and a damn fine actress. (People always talk about her lyrics, but its her…
View image Still the One. I've tried, but I can't think of a better, more thoroughly entertaining and endlessly rewarding American movie. Here's Roger Ebert's take. Some oversights have been corrected since the first list was compiled (by polling film…
Welles’ “Citizen Kane” is still the greatest American film of all time. Coppola’s “The Godfather” is second. Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” and Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” have cracked the Top 10, booting out “The Graduate” (No. 7 to No. 17) and “On the…
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…
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