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Letting Go of God

View image: Julia's new CD: A beautiful loss-of-faith story. A personal note: I hope you've seen my dearest friend Julia Sweeney's "God Said 'Ha!'" (Roger Ebert's review here), which is available on DVD. And I hope you've seen her stage…

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Nihilism on Aldrich Street

The opening shot of Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly." You want dark? How's this for dark: Matt Zoller Seitz chillingly sets the scene before plummeting headlong into the moral darkness of Robert Aldrich's noir masterpiece "Kiss Me Deadly" (Opening Shot…

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All about your parents

The Blocks on the block. Such a nice Jewish family. One of the highlights of my moviegoing experience at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival is about to become one of the best theatrical releases of 2006: Doug Block's "51…

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Happy 300 million!

View image Sonja Sohn (left, with Dominic West as Detective McNulty, in "The Wire"): The future of America, I hope! The wee bundle of joy who raises the US population to an even 300 million (for a fraction of second…

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'The Departed': Choppy craftsmanship?

View image Scorsese and Company: Leonardo Di Caprio, Scorsese, cinematographer Michael Ballhaus (with light meter around his neck), Jack Nicholson. (Others unidentified.) UPDATE: Revisiting "The Departed." A number of times while watching Martin Scorsese's "The Departed" I was distracted by…

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Three new Ebert articles

We have three new pieces by Roger Ebert on RogerEbert.com this week: Ebert's review of "The Queen" An interview with director Michael Apted regarding "49 Up" PLUS: Roger's latest recovery update (And I have a review of "Infamous," the new…

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Roger Ebert writes from rehab

As most of you know, Roger Ebert has been undergoing physical therapy in a rehabilitation facility in Chicago, and -- great news! -- is recovering well and has filed his first review since June (of Stephen Frears' "The Queen") for…

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Seventh time 'Up' for Apted

In 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed a group of seven-year-old British schoolchildren for a BBC television documentary called "7 Up." Apted, now known for directing such features as "Coal Miner's Daughter" and "Gorillas in the Mist," has since returned to…

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What do you think of 'The Departed'?

Everybody's saying "The Departed" is Martin Scorsese's best picture since "Casino" -- or even "GoodFellas." And some of the (over-)praise has struck me as pretty condescending to Scorsese: "Good boy. You stick to your mobsters now, won't you?" I'll go…