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It's great to hear from Roger Ebert, who has this message at RogerEbert.com: It's been some time since I checked in to let you know how I'm doing. I had hoped to be back in my seat in the balcony…
It's great to hear from Roger Ebert, who has this message at RogerEbert.com: It's been some time since I checked in to let you know how I'm doing. I had hoped to be back in my seat in the balcony…
View image From The Onion, October 23, 2006: "I've been making pictures for 40 years," said the intense, fast-talking Scorsese in an excerpt from "The Entitled," during which the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" can be heard in the background. "For…
Ben Whishaw in a stinky place in "Perfume." Roger Ebert on "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer": "Why I love this story, I do not know. Why I have read the book twice and given away a dozen copies of…
It's been some time since I checked in to let you know how I'm doing. I had hoped to be back in my seat in the balcony alongside my partner Richard Roeper, but the surgeons tell me they will have…
Dana Stevens (at Slate.com), Susan Gerhard (SF360.org), and I are the only critics I know of who put "Man Push Cart" on our best of 2006 lists. Roger Ebert probably would have been a fourth, if he'd made a list…
View image Critics gather 'round to watch "The Departed" on their laptops. Is there anybody who doesn't want Martin Scorsese to win an Oscar? Even if you don't think "The Departed" approaches his best work? For me, his best films…
Godard is a contemptuous artist, too. Forget "Le Mepris." Ever see "Weekend"? We heard a lot in 2006, as we do every year, about nasty filmmakers who were said to have viewed their characters (and, hence, their audiences) with contempt,…
Latest Contrarian Week News: In his New York Observer year-end wrap-up (and ten-best list), Andrew Sarris attempts to steal the thunder of one of his New York "alternative weekly" rivals. Sarris writes: Fortunately, modern technology makes it almost impossible for…
Hey, does this sound at all familiar? "[This character] was life and hope, as she is the only one carrying a child. This is a society without procreation, so that's why they make such a fuss about finding a girl…
View image I don't think much of Mel Gibson's ultra-literalist directorial sensibility (my main problem with "Passion of the Christ" is that it failed to engage on any symbolic, religious or mythological level), but this piece in the New York…
