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Chaz has news on Roger's recovery

Roger Ebert directs the show at the 2006 Overlooked Film Festival. Roger Ebert's wife Chaz sent an update on his recovery for publication on RogerEbert.com. Chaz writes: Roger was making good progress and was ready to go to his next…

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The horror and the terror

Neil Marshall's acclaimed British horror-thriller "The Descent" draws on plenty of other genre classics for visual inspiration, from otherworldly mysteries ("Picnic at Hanging Rock") to oudoor adventure ("Deliverance," "Jaws") to science-fiction ("Alien") and straight-out horror ("The Blair Witch Project"). All…

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Cave paintings: The art of 'The Descent'

View image "The Flaming Spirits of the Evil Counsellors" (illustration for Dante's "Divine Comedy") Gustave Doré (1865) "The Descent" quotes from a whole bunch of movies (and I'll be illustrating some of those soon), but while watching it I was…

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'The Descent': The deeper ending

Here's an eye-opener... As you may know, "The Descent" (which opened in US theaters this weekend) was released last year in Great Britain, where it is now available on Region 2 PAL DVD. The British release has one final scene…

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Opening Shots: 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'

View image From Edward Bowie, US Army: I have a counter-intuitive nomination for best shot: The opening segue from the Paramount “mountain��? to the unspecified Andean mountain in “Raiders of the lost Ark.��? Indicative, I think, that what we are…