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MZS
Book Excerpt: Foreword to The Wes Anderson Collection: Asteroid City by David Bordwell
Features
The Best Films of 2024 So Far
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2023: The Taste of Things, Fallen Leaves, La Chimera
Features
Empathy Machine: Diary of a Country Priest
Features
Ten Years of Presence: In Honor of Roger Ebert and the Empathy Machine
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2022: Return to Seoul, She Said, Exterior Night
Festivals & Awards
KVIFF 2022: EO, Like a Fish on the Moon, The Eight Mountains, Father’s Day
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Triangle of Sadness wins Palme d’Or
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2022: Armageddon Time, Eo, Rodeo
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Film Festival Preview 2022
Festivals & Awards
Cannes Official Selection Line-Up Overview with Digressions You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2021: Prayers for the Stolen, The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2021: A Hero, Deception, Petrov’s Flu
Chaz's Journal
19 Dazzling Favorite Movies and Reviews from 2020
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2020: In Between Dying, The Best is Yet to Come, Topside
Interviews
Hal Hartley on His Film Career, Modernist Influences, and Re-Watching His Work
Features
Sheila O’Malley’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
Simon Abrams’ Top Ten Films of 2018
Features
Matt Fagerholm’s Top Ten Films of 2018
Chaz's Journal
My List of Movies to See Before the End of 2018
Features
Believing in Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 7, 2018
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Critics in the Spotlight
Far Flungers
On Life and Architecture: Revisiting Kogonada’s Columbus
Chaz's Journal
We Have Been Them: Roger Ebert’s Reviews About Empathy
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2017: “Wonder Wheel”
Features
Much More than “Star Wars”: The Cinema of ’77 Strikes Back at Film Society of Lincoln Center
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Interviews
The Passenger: Bertrand Tavernier on “My Journey Through French Cinema”
Chaz's Journal
Winners Announced for Great Movies IV Giveaway
Features
The Way Of Bresson: Two Books Illuminate The Philosophy And Working Method of a Unique Filmmaker
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2016: Preview of the 54th New York Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
Venice Film Festival 2016: Venice Classics Program Includes Restorations of “Stalker,” “Manhattan”
MZS
The Unloved, Part 30: Torn Curtain & Topaz
Interviews
Solidarity of Cinema: Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut”
Interviews
Under Attack by Bad Art Constantly: Gregg Turkington on “Entertainment”
Features
Landscape is a Reality: Manoel de Oliveira 1908-2015
Features
Cinematic Jazz: The Myth of John Cassavetes
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2014: Opening Weekend Films “La Sapienza” and “Gone Girl” Display Artistic Depth of Fest
Features
Thumbnails 7/23/2014
MZS
Don’t Look Away: On the Artistry and Urgency of “12 Years a Slave”
Features
Meet the Writers: Dan Callahan
Festivals & Awards
Cannes reviews: Politics and troubled family lives in “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” “Blue Ruin,” and “Tip Top”
Features
“The Art of the Video Essay,” a page by Kevin Lee, grandmaster of the form
Features
The art of picking pockets
Far Flungers
A portside gallery of thwarted Destiny
Scanners
Is Oscar’s best pic a masterpiece?
Festivals & Awards
“There’s a fungus between my toes that speaks to me.”
Scanners
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Scanners
The Cinephiliac Moment
Scanners
Films on fire: Tony Scott and Christopher Nolan
Scanners
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
Scanners
The Double-Best of the Year
Scanners
Pulp Fiction: Nothing serious?
Scanners
Top secret leakage from my 2010 Muriels ballot!
Scanners
Eric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois: A knight on a soundstage
Scanners
A slice of perfection
Scanners
Movies that allow you some breathing room
Scanners
Bergman: Sawdust and Tinsel?
Scanners
Dr. Bordwell Goes to Hong Kong
Scanners
The great movies (almost) nobody voted for
Scanners
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Scanners
The best greatest movies ever list
Scanners
How Not to Write About Film
Scanners
Ebert Strikes Back
Scanners
Name That Director!
Scanners
A miracle of a movie
Scanners
Products of mass distraction (or, Hooray for elitism!)
Scanners
The 100 Greatest Directors of… what?
Scanners
You better you better you best: The better of the best lists
Scanners
The fillet of fests
Scanners
Repeatable pleasures
Festivals & Awards
On Clint Eastwood directing “Million Dollar Baby”
Festivals & Awards
Six from Sundance
Festivals & Awards
Cannes all winners
Interviews
Defending Ingmar Bergman
Interviews
Robert Bresson was master of understatement
Interviews
Bresson’s work celebrated at Film Center
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