Great Movies
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The Cruelest Month, Part 1: Hurricane Bettye
The first floor in a series of essays about the significance of the month of April in the author's life.
The first floor in a series of essays about the significance of the month of April in the author's life.
The pioneering character actor always brought something extra to every project.
The latest on streaming and Blu-ray includes Bacurau, The Wild Goose Lake, and a Criterion edition of Marriage Story.
The staff offers some shows and movies to fill the time while we're all stuck at home.
An in-depth preview on the classic noir films that will be playing at Chicago's Music Box Theater from Sept. 6-12.
A posthumous tribute to two male directors who encouraged audience identification with women onscreen and made opportunities for female film artists.
Chaz Ebert and the RogerEbert.com group of writers wishes you Happy Holidays!
The latest on streaming and Blu-ray, including Support the Girls, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Galveston, and The Magnificent Ambersons.
Difficult is a gendered term fueled by the Hollywood machine and maintained by the belief that actresses aren’t responsible for the achievement of their films.
Jessica Ritchey answers the Movie Love Questionnaire.
An appreciation of Richard Schickel, Time magazine film critic and prolific film director and book author.
Molly Haskell speaks with Matt Zoller Seitz about "From Reverence to Rape," "Love and Other Infectious Diseases," "Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films" and more.
An in-depth preview of the films, including rarities and restorations, playing in the Noir City: Chicago 8 program at the Music Box Theatre.
Why Viggo Mortensen is off the grid; How Netflix became Hollywood's frenemy; Ted Kotcheff on "First Blood"; Insomnia and philosophy; Bruce Dern at 80.
How the female co-stars of Arnold Schwarzenegger's hit films of the '80s helped change the genre.
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com film critic Odie Henderson.
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com film critic Sheila O'Malley.
Sheila writes: John Lennon kept a sketchbook throughout his life, filled with little drawings and doodles, and in 1986 Yoko Ono commissioned Oscar-winning animator John Canemaker to make them into a short film. The short film, "The John Lennon Sketchbook" hit Youtube officially on May 15 of this year. The images are accompanied by audio recordings of John and Yoko talking about their relationship, bantering and joking. It's lovely. You can watch the film below.
Sheila writes: Roger Ebert included Orson Welles' 1965 "Chimes at Midnight" in his Great Movies series, writing, in 2006, "It dropped so completely out of sight that there is no video version in America, Britain or France. Preparing to attend the epic production of both parts of Shakespeare's "Henry IV" at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, I wanted to see it again and found it available on DVD from Spain and Brazil. Both versions carry the original English-language soundtrack; the Brazilian disc is clear enough and a thing of beauty. What luck that Welles shot in black-and-white, so there was no color to fade."
