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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in Richard Lester’s “The Bed-Sitting Room”

Interview with Mark Lester

“Suits: LA” Is Dumb, Glossy Nothingness

Home Entertainment Guide: April 2024

A Farewell from Our Literary Editor, Matt Fagerholm

He Did It All: William Friedkin (1935-2023)

A Piece of His Fire: Harry Belafonte (1927-2023)

Hello Tomorrow! Offers Creative Vision of an Alternate Reality

Netflix’s Dull CIA Series The Recruit is More Like Paperwork

New Combat Landscape is Examined in Inconsistent The Undeclared War

Home Entertainment Guide: April 2022

He Was Always Nice to Me: Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022)

Home Entertainment Guide: January 2022

Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2021: It’s All Happening by Ethan Warren

Richard Donner: 1930-2021

Meet the Writers of Black Writers Week 2021

Profiles in Courage: Kahil El’Zabar

Breaking In: On the 40th Anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Thief Score

Home Entertainment Guide: November 2020

Bonded and Unbound: Sean Connery, 1930-2020

Jerry Stiller: 1927-2020

The Unloved, Part 76: Juggernaut

Martin Scorsese’s Dangerous Men: On the Actors of The Irishman

20 Years of Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey

After Yesterday: A Beatles Film Festival

90 Minutes On: “A Star is Born” (2018)

Richard Dreyfuss and Deborah Kolar, Daughter of Robert Shaw, on Jaws

Born This Way: Why 1954’s A Star Is Born Is Still The Best

Nicolas Roeg, 1928-2018

AFI FEST 2018: Mary Queen of Scots

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2017 Gracie Award Winners to Be Honored on June 6th

Confusion and carnage: an interview with film critic Adam Nayman about the films of Ben Wheatley

“Life Itself” Wins Emmy

World-Class Acting: On Joan Crawford and “Sudden Fear”

HBO’s Ambitious “Vinyl” Takes Its Time

The Best Performances of Sundance 2016

Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg: Like Mother, Like Daughter

45 Years and More with Charlotte Rampling

30 Minutes on: “Commando”

FX’s “Fargo” Maintains High Quality in Second Chapter

Bright Wall/Dark Room September 2015: “Living In The Sprawl: Superbad’s Coming-of-Age in the Suburban Void” by Charles Bramesco

The Act of Not Having An Act: Cameron Crowe’s Ambivalent Humanism

History of Hatred Documented in “Klansville, U.S.A.”

Blu-ray: The Year in Review, OR Blu-ray Holiday Gift Guide: A “Choose Your Own Adventure” Deciders Feature

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It’s Gonna Feel All Right: The Musical and Cinematic Legacy of “A Hard Day’s Night”

Beatles Good!: The 50 Anniversary of “A Hard Day’s Night”

FX’s “Fargo” Has Creative Spark of Coen Classic

Blu-ray Consumer Guide: February 24, 2014

Stay, little Valentine: Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967-2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 1967–2014

Selected writings on Philip Seymour Hoffman

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“The Wes Anderson Collection,” Chapters 1-7, and “The Substance of Style”, Chapters 1-5

Cannes 1968: A video essay

Platform Announces Founding Member Event in Chicago

The odds are with the house

101 102 Movies You Must See Before…

50 greatest music films ever

Opening Shots: ‘Petulia’

TIFF 2007: Robert Zimmerman Bob Dylan Revisited

And the greatest art work of the 20th century is…

Opening Shots: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’

Close-Ups: A free-association dream sequence

Argo: A Hollywood ending

Poetry in motion — and it rhymes, too

Opening Shots: ‘Juggernaut’

Wes Anderson scavenger hunt: Truffaut, Welles, Peanuts…

The 100 Greatest Directors of… what?

’50 Lost Movie Classics’

Taking the Plunge

Sex, politics and dust-busting

Larry Sanders: Changing television and changing lives

Toronto #4: And the winner is…

Perform a concert in words: RIP Bill Nack 1941-2018
