This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
It is the best of the three films, offering in some odd ways a corrective to the prior installments.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Theo Angelopoulos’ Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life…
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
A tribute to the late, great Terry Jones.
A dispatch from the 2020 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, featuring reviews of Kourosh Ahari’s "The Night" and Andrew Davis' "Mentors—Tony & Santi."
An article about the 34th annual IDA Documentary Award ceremony held on December 8th.
