6 Underground
It becomes repetitive, nonsensical, and just loud after everyone gets an origin story and we're left with nothing to do but go boom.
Bruce Springsteen
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Western Stars (2019)
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Himself, Director
Brian Tallerico -
Blinded by the Light (2019)
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Music
Sheila O'Malley -
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (2015)
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Himself
Odie Henderson -
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
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Himself
Susan Wloszczyna -
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
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Roger Ebert
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Home Entertainment Guide: November 27, 2019
New on Blu-ray and streaming, including Where'd You Go Bernadette, Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and a Criterion edition of Cold War.
TIFF 2019: Jungleland, True History of the Kelly Gang
On two films about masculinity from TIFF that both happen to star Charlie Hunnam.
Viveik Kalra on Blinded by the Light, Discovering Bruce Springsteen, What's Next and More
An interview with Viveik Kalra, who makes his feature acting debut in the Bruce Springsteen-inspired film, Blinded by the Light.
Gurinder Chadha, Sarfraz Manzoor, Viveik Kalra and Aaron Phagura on Their Bruce Springsteen-Inspired Film, Blinded by the Light
An interview with the storytellers and actors behind the Bruce Springsteen-inspired film, Blinded by the Light.
TIFF Announces First Wave of Gala and Special Presentation Films
The first wave of World Premieres announced for TIFF 2019.
New York Asian Film Festival 2019 Preview
A look at the 2019 New York Asian Film Festival, starting this weekend.
Encouraging Greater Diversity in Cinema: Highlights of the Bentonville Film Festival
A look back at the 2019 Bentonville Film Festival, including Ophelia, Blinded by the Light and The Garden Left Behind.
#354 May 14, 2019
Matt writes: On April 28th, the movie world lost a true giant: filmmaker John Singleton, whose 1991 masterpiece, "Boyz N the Hood," remains one of the most astonishing feature debuts in cinema history. Roger Ebert awarded the picture four stars, writing that it was one of "the best American films of recent years." Roger's thoughts regarding the entirety of Singleton's career were detailed in a special compilation by Nick Allen, while Odie Henderson penned a deeply moving obituary for the trailblazing auteur. I was among the writers at RogerEbert.com who paid tribute to Singleton in a separate article, "Breaking Barriers."
Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full Schedule, Special Guests
The full schedule for the 2019 Chicago Critics Film Festival
Sundance 2019: Blinded by the Light
A review of Gurinder Chadha's Bruce Springsteen-inspired "Blinded by the Light," which had its world premiere Sunday night at the Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance 2019 Announces Competition, Premiere, Midnight Titles and More
A look ahead at the 112 films that will play the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019.
Tom Petty: 1950-2017
An obituary for the late Tom Petty.
Cannes 2016: "The Handmaiden," "Transfiguration," "American Honey"
Three more films from Cannes 2016, including the latest from Park Chan-wook and Andrea Arnold.
Ebertfest 2016, Day 4: Four Movies, Four Writers
The Saturday of this year's Ebertfest is tackled by four of our contributors.
Look Away, Dixie Land: Reflections on Life in the South, Racist Iconography, and Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing
A reprint of an article by Greg Carpenter about the Confederate Flag.
Who's Who In Reviews: Peter Sobczynski
The movie questionnaire and 2015 reviews of RogerEbert.com film critic Peter Sobczynski.
Thumbnails 12/8/14
Jennifer Kent directs the year's scariest movie; Best TV Shows of 2014; Lawsuit against NYFA; Why movies can't stop explaining themselves; Anna Kendrick on her new musicals.
Tonight is What It Means To Be Young: "Streets of Fire" at 30
"Purple Rain" Still Reigns at 30
An appreciation of Prince's "Purple Rain" as it comes up on its 30th anniversary.
The Twelve Scenes of Christmas: Numbers 12 to 9
We're counting down twelve great movie scenes set around Christmas. Here is the first batch, with #12 through #9.
"They closed down the video store in Philly last night": laments for Blockbuster, in the style of Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen mourns the closing of Blockbuster's retail stores. OK, not really—but these Springsteen spoofs are pretty funny anyway.
Meet the Writers: Peter Sobczynski
Writer Peter Sobczynski responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Movie culture: The Dead, the Deader and the Deadest
Oh my. Here we go again with all the deathiness. Movie criticism keeps dying deader and deader. Film itself has keeled over and given up the ghost. Cinema ist kaput, and at the end of last month "movie culture" was pronounced almost as deceased as John Cleese's parrot. Ex-parrot, I mean. Then the movie "Looper" came out, posing questions like: "What if you could go back in time? Would you kill cinema?" Or something like that.
People, this dying has gotta stop.
Art that reaches backward and points forward
Bruce Eaton, in his 331/3 book on Big Star's "Radio City" (2009):
Beyond talent, there's the often dismissed importance of experience -- in music and life. Does an artist have something interesting to say and the ability to say it in a unique and interesting way? The answer is usually "not really." One of the chief reasons that rock and roll from the 1960s and early 1970s still looms large is that its creators had deep reserves of experience to draw upon when the time finally came to go to the well in the recording studio. Take The Beatles or The Stones, Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen. Each knew hundreds upon hundreds of cover tunes -- a disparaged concept today but vital to learning how music works -- and had played endless gigs trying to sell them to indifferent, if not downright hostile, audience. That experience takes patience but it eventually can get you to a point where you can write songs of your own that become a meaningful and permanent part of other peoples' lives.
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