The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival

by Laura Emerick  |  May 5, 2018  | 

A look back at this past week's TCM Classic Film Festival, including the special guests and screenings.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room: "Home is Where the Hurt Is" by Asher Gelzer-Govatos

by The Editors  |  December 12, 2017  | 

This month's excerpt from online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room is an essay about home and "Little Women."

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Tom Petty: 1950-2017

by Peter Sobczynski  |  October 3, 2017  | 

An obituary for the late Tom Petty.

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Cannes 2015: "Standing Tall," "Our Little Sister," "Tale of Tales"

by Barbara Scharres  |  May 13, 2015  | 

A dispatch from Cannes on the new films by Emmanuelle Bercot, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Matteo Garrone.

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Name That Director!

by Jim Emerson  |  January 27, 2010  | 

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UPDATED 01/28/10: 2:25 p.m. PST -- COMPLETED!: Thanks for all the detective work -- and special thanks to Christopher Stangl and Srikanth Srinivasan himself for their comprehensive efforts at filling the last few holes! Now I have to go read about who some of these experimental filmmakers are. I did find some Craig Baldwin movies on Netflix, actually...

Srikanth Srinivasan of Bangalore writes one of the most impressive movie blogs on the web: The Seventh Art. I don't remember how I happened upon it last week, but wow am I glad I did. Dig into his exploration of connections between Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and Jean-Luc Godard's "History of Cinema." Or check out his piece on James Benning's 1986 "Landscape Suicide." There's a lot to look through, divided into sections for Hollywood and World Cinema.

In the section called "The Cinemaniac... I found the above collage (mosaic?) of mostly-famous faces belonging to film directors, which Srikanth says he assembled from thumbnails at Senses of Cinema. Many of them looked quite familiar to me, and if I'm not mistaken they were among the biographical portraits we used in the multimedia CD-ROM movie encyclopedia Microsoft Cinemania, which I edited from 1994 to 1998, first on disc, then also on the web. (Anybody with a copy of Cinemania able to confirm that? My Mac copy of Cinemania97 won't run on Snow Leopard.)

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So many films, so little time

by Roger Ebert  |  September 1, 2007  | 

I have before me a schedule of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, which opens Thursday and runs 10 days. I have been looking at it for some time. I am paralyzed. There are so many films by important directors (not to mention important films by unknown directors), that it cannot be reduced to its highlights. The highlights alone, if run in alphabetical order, would take up all my space.

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