View image: My Polish "Chinatown" poster, designed by Andrzej Klimowski. For more than 30 years, Roger Ebert has led a theater full of people in a group analysis of movies at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of…
Why is this stuff coming out now? Coincidence? Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule has the best coverage anywhere of the whole "I (Heart) Huckabees" on-set "maelstrom" (as proprietor Dennis Cozzalio calls it), including the now-infamous YouTube clips of…
Saint Luis. Every now and then, there comes a time to make a pilgrimage to a sanctuary, a place of retreat where one can let oneself float unhindered in a sanative state. Now -- yes, right now -- is one…
View image The Professor is IN! "Kiss today goodbye, and point me t'ward tomorrow...." Yes, Dennis at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule has published his latest irresistible quiz: Prof. Irwin Corey's Foremostly Authoritative Spring Break Movie Quiz. So…
View image The "Searchers" shot from the ending of "War of the Worlds." Way more sentimental than John Ford's. Can a lousy ending really ruin an otherwise good movie? There was a time in Hollywood history when phony "happy endings"…
"You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year." If you are in Chicago the next few weeks, and you feel like taking in a weekend matinee, then you are fortunate…
Trudy: "You certainly helped me out by taking me out tonight!" Betty Hutton died earlier this week. She was 86. Her most popular movies were probably "Annie Get Your Gun," the 1950 Irving Berlin musical (directed by George Sidney) in…
"Madame de..." Movies are just a little more than 100 years old. Many of them (some say maybe even most of them) are lost or gone -- discarded, intentionally junked or rotted away. Original nitrate stock is extremely volatile, and…
In his column about the revival of Max Ophuls' "The Earrings of Madame de...," the dean of American film critics, Andrew Sarris, proclaims Ophüls' masterwork the greatest film of all time -- edging out, as the headline puts it, "Welles,…
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