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New York Philharmonic and Steven Spielberg Celebrate the Music of John Williams
Tomris Laffly
Revisiting John Williams’ Score for Jaws, 45 Years Later
Charlie Brigden
A Composer For All Seasons: On the Range of John Williams
Charlie Brigden
Thumbnails 5/26/15
Matt Fagerholm
Opening Shots: ‘Star Wars’
Jim Emerson
How “Star Wars” changed the world (as we knew it)
Jim Emerson
The masters of disaster, by Gerardo Valero of Mexico
Gerardo Valero
30 Minutes On: “Watership Down”
Matt Zoller Seitz
The Great Craft of 2024
The Editors
Nothing Left to Prove: Quincy Jones (1933-2024)
Odie Henderson
The Presumed Innocent Movie Was a Highlight of Hollywood’s Page-Turner Era
Tim Grierson
Expecto Patronum: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban at 20
Lauren Coates
The Acolyte Sends Star Wars Into a Galaxy Far, Far In the Past
Clint Worthington
Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year
Daniel Joyaux
The 96th Academy Award Nominations Are Announced, Led by Oppenheimer
The Editors
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2023
Brian Tallerico
Return of the Jedi Turns 40
Charlie Brigden
10 Major Snubs and Surprises from the 2023 Oscar Nominations
Daniel Joyaux
Goodbye to a Chicago Legend: Sergio Mims (1955-2022)
The Editors
TIFF 2022: The Fabelmans, Glass Onion
Brian Tallerico
TIFF 2022: Brother, Butcher’s Crossing, The Lost King
Brian Tallerico
20 Films We Can’t Wait to See in Toronto
Brian Tallerico
Alive Again: Revisiting Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park
Seongyong Cho
The Space Left on the Screen is For You to Fill: Scott Ryan on Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared
Matt Fagerholm
The Flight Attendant’s Second Season Fails to Take Off
Nandini Balial
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
Matt Fagerholm
Book Excerpt: Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper by Scout Tafoya
The Editors
Sometimes You Get Lucky: Composer James Newton Howard on News of the World
Clint Worthington
60 Minutes on: Christopher Reeve as Superman
Matt Zoller Seitz
The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Scores
Charlie Brigden
Joker Leads Oscar Nominations
Brian Tallerico
The Best Scores of the Decade
Charlie Brigden
Bring the Soul to Life: Oscar-Winning Editor Paul Hirsch on “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” “Star Wars” and His New Memoir
Matt Fagerholm
A Hitchockian Nightmare: On Alan J. Pakula’s Presumed Innocent
Seongyong Cho
Book Review: The Star Wars Archives 1977-1983
Peter Cowie
30 Minutes on: “The Meg”
Matt Zoller Seitz
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Matt Fagerholm
Celebrating the Artifice: Laurent Bouzereau on Spielberg, Hitchcock, De Palma and More
Matt Fagerholm
Jóhann Jóhannsson: 1969-2018
Nick Allen
Short Films in Focus: The 2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films
Collin Souter
The Shape of Water Tops 2018 Oscar Nominees
Susan Wloszczyna
The Individual Top Tens of 2017
The Editors
The Heart of the Film: Matt Schrader and Marco Beltrami on “Score: A Film Music Documentary”
Laura Emerick
Binge-watching All Eight “Star Wars” Films For the 40th Anniversary
Collin Souter
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Teaser Trailer Revealed
Nick Allen
The Dance of the Lightsabers: Duels in the Original “Star Wars” Trilogy vs. the Prequels
Andrew Clark
Life Refuses to Stand Still: Another Look at Steven Spielberg’s “Always”
Jessica Ritchey
A Beautiful Movie About Farting: The Daniels on “Swiss Army Man”
Brian Tallerico
Before the First Avenger: “The Rocketeer” 25 Years Later
Brian Doan
Blu-ray Review: “Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens”
Brian Tallerico
Surprises and Snubs: An Expert Responds to the Oscar Nominations
Susan Wloszczyna
Complete List of 88th Academy Award Nominees
The Editors
The Strange Case of “The Other Side of Midnight”
Jessica Ritchey
Thumbnails 10/26/15
Matt Fagerholm
SDCC 2015: Superhero Music Composers at Comic-Con
Nell Minow
James Horner’s Underrated Scores
Jessica Ritchey
Painting with sound: the music of James Horner, 1953-2015
Matt Zoller Seitz
Ebertfest to Welcome Jason Segel, Chazz Palminteri and More
Chaz Ebert
Meet the Writers: Matt Fagerholm
Matt Fagerholm
“1941”: An Appreciation and Interview with Bob Gale
Peter Sobczynski
Book Excerpt: Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin by David Greven
The Editors
An Appreciation of the Disaster Movie on the 40th Anniversary of “The Towering Inferno”
Gerardo Valero
Fans Descend on Anaheim For WonderCon 2014
Jana Monji
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation Honors Steven Spielberg with the Lincoln Leadership Prize
The Editors
“Man of Steel”, Feet of Clay
Gerardo Valero
Surprises, Snubs and Fun Facts: The 86th Oscar Nominations
Erik Childress
Unresolved Chords: How Film Composers Shape Our Feelings
Alan Zilberman
“Star Wars” in Navajo
Steven Boone
A prayer for a war machine: a conversation about Oliver Stone’s “Untold History”
Matt Zoller Seitz
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Peter Sobczynski
Scoring Dystopia: Composer Ryan Amon Discusses His Music for “Elysium”
Nell Minow
Superman times 10: the most amazing incarnations of comics’ most durable superhero
Simon Abrams
My Ten Greatest Movies
Omer M. Mozaffar
Steven Spielberg: My animated tribute
Krishna Bala Shenoi
Comparing “Thor” in three screen formats
Roger Ebert
Hey, Dude: Jeff Dowd downloads on the Sparo-at-the Yarrow
Roger Ebert
Fans set to pay for peek at new ‘Star Wars’
Roger Ebert
Making contact: Spielberg’s Close Encounters and E.T.
Jim Emerson
Not just an ordinary superhero
Krishna Bala Shenoi
“You’re going to need a bigger boat”
Gerardo Valero
We know what you’ll be doing
Seongyong Cho
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the superhero genre!
Krishna Bala Shenoi
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