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The stars stayed home in support of the strike, but the below-the-line talent was a reminder of how many talented people are behind every movie.
The stars stayed home in support of the strike, but the below-the-line talent was a reminder of how many talented people are behind every movie.
A tribute to Sergio Mims from members of the Chicago Film Critics Association and writers of RogerEbert.com.
Our monthly guide highlights eight recent Criterion releases, including their first forays into 4K.
A summary and recap of major events from this month's virtual San Diego Comic-Con, with video clips.
The latest on Blu-ray, DVD, and streaming, including Rose Plays Julie, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Criterion releases of Deep Cover and Pariah.
A tribute to another legend gone too soon.
The latest on streaming and Blu-ray, including Support the Girls, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Galveston, and The Magnificent Ambersons.
The director of "Mandy" talks about making his gorgeous revenge epic and working with Nicolas Cage.
A preview of the 2014 Black Harvest Film Festival, including an award for Chaz & Roger Ebert and some highlights of films to see.
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban League, student Tonyisha Harris reviews "Dark Girls".
By all accounts, 2013 has been a striking year for black film directors. But is the real story about black directors working in television?
Marie writes: I've always found the ocean more interesting than space and for invariably containing more delights and surprises. Case in point, discovering the existence of an extraordinary underwater museum...
I have a friend who walked out of THERE WILL BE BLOOD during that baptism scene, when Daniel Day-Lewis exclaimed, "I've abandoned my child!" My friend was just divorced, lost custody of his children, and was tormented with the remorse that follows these things. As Daniel Day-Lewis shouted, my friend almost needed to cover his ears. He returned to his seat shortly afterwards, but needed that moment to collect himself.
I have another friend who was molested by a family friend. She refuses therapy, but she attributes multiple aspects of her personality, that she herself identifies as disorders - social ineptitude, sexual dysfunction and confusion, chronic despair - to that period of molestation. When she watched MYSTIC RIVER, a movie speaking of the physical and psychological abuse of children and the long term consequences on their hearts and minds, she found herself painfully revisiting those experiences, but not where we might expect.
CANNES, France -- The French New Wave was a rebirth of French films in the early 1960s, and the German new wave represented the same process in Germany in the 1970s. Now black American filmmakers are developing a new stylistic and personal vision that reached critical mass at this year's Cannes Film Festival. In May of 1991, here in the incongruous setting of the French Riviera, far from the urban settings of most of their films, the black new wave came of age.
