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December 2024 Blu-Ray Guide: “The Wild Robot,” “Conclave,” “Alien: Romulus,” More
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2024
13 Films Illuminate Locarno Film Festival’s Columbia Pictures Retrospective
Cannes 2024: Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, Eephus, To A Land Unknown
Cannes 2024: Megalopolis, Bird, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot
Spit On A Griddle: The Return of Francis Ford Coppola’s One from the Heart
Streetcorner Symphony: The Music of Mean Streets
Noir City Returns to the Music Box in Chicago
The Unloved, Part 114: Ludwig
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2023: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: Friends, Lovers, or Neighbors by Frank Falisi
The Consummate Collaborator: Bill Butler (1921-2023)
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
2023 Sundance Film Festival Announces Competition Films, Premiere Titles, Midnight Selections, and More
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
Richard Donner: 1930-2021
The Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cinematic Universe
Book Excerpt: This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson
Giuseppe Rotunno: 1923-2021
Franco Zeffirelli: 1923-2019
Bernardo Bertolucci: 1941-2018
Thumbnails Special Edition: Cannes 2018
Cannes 2018: Edward Lachman, an honoree at the festival, discusses the past and future of cinematography
The Silence: Paul Schrader on First Reformed
NYFF 2017: Odie’s Favorites and Other Highlights
NYFF 2017: “Wonder Wheel”
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 13, 2017
Cinematic Immortality: Danielle Darrieux Turns 100
A Moment of Significance: Nacho Vigalondo on Making “Colossal” to Scale
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2017: “Towards a True Children’s Cinema: On ‘My Neighbor Totoro'” by Lauren Wilford
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: October 21, 2016
Amazon’s “Crisis in Six Scenes” is for Woody Allen Completists Only
“La Lupa”: A Celebration of Anna Magnani
Cannes 2016: “Café Society”
2016 Summer Movie Preview: A Four-Month, Blockbuster Festival, Part II
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: April 7, 2016
Preview of 19th Annual Chicago European Union Film Festival
Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film
Connected to the Soil: Charles Burnett on “To Sleep with Anger”
Telluride 2015: Shorts by Godard, Varda and Renoir
The Young Person’s Guide To Max Von Sydow, Part Two
Sex Symbol Without Auteur: The Strange Case of the Gina Lollobrigida Filmography
Thumbnails 6/18/15
AFI Fest Honors Sophia Loren
Musings on Sophia Loren
Laterally speaking: a celebration of right-to-left and left-to-right camera moves
TCM’s 15 most influential films of all time, and 10 from me
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
The dogs are loose! (Part 2)
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
The Double-Best of the Year
Precious Based on the Movie Female Trouble by John Waters
The 100 Most Acclaimed Movies of the 20th Century
The best greatest movies ever list
Are Movies Going to Pieces?
The 100 Greatest Directors of… what?
Happiness is a good father
The AFI Class of ’92
The man who decided to go along
A Master Emerges: Conrad Hall and “The Outer Limits”
The best train set a boy could want: 2011 edition
The best art films of 2010
Berlinale 2012: The tantalizing and the taboo
Two war films, worlds apart: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Hurt Locker’ lead Oscar noms
Complete list of Oscar nominations
Telluride focuses on ’28 classics, guest favorites
Offbeat family’s tale is powerfully told
Cannes all winners
Oscar Noms: Kramer & All That Jazz
Lillian Gish: Happy Birthday, Lillian…
