Armadillos in Their Trousers: The Tragic Special Snowflakes of “This is Spinal Tap”
Thirty years after the release of “This is Spinal Tap”, Ali Arikan looks back at this mocku-rocku-mentary.
Features
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: February 10 2014
Six recent releases on Blu-ray, including Fellini’s “Il Bidone” and two Tyrone Power movies.
Thumbnails 2/7/2014
Joe Dallesandro; “Blazing Saddles” at 40; women and revenge; women and Scorsese.
Thumbnails 2/5/2014
Post-Beatles Beatles movies; heroin and creativity; Terry Gilliam’s life in 8 movies; Hannibal’s food stylist.
On Seeing “Life Itself” at a Special Advance Screening
Søren Hough of MovieFail.com talks about his experience seeing “Life Itself at a special screening for contributors to the Indiegogo campaign that helped fund the movie.
Thumbnails 2/4/2014
A plea for “sanity” in discussing Allen/Farrow; Phillip Roth on why he’s not going back to fiction; Russell Brand on addiction; The Tonight Show‘s forgotten host.
RogerEbert.com welcomes new Assistant Editor
RogerEbert.com welcomes a new member to the editorial team.
Thumbnails 2/3/2014
R.I.P., Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Eduardo Coutinho; the Allen-Farrow thing, catalogued and linked; Kristin Scott Thomas’ ambivalence; Chuck Jones, honored.
Selected writings on Philip Seymour Hoffman
Reviews of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s films and an interview with him about “Capote”
Goodnight, my excellent good master: Maximilian Schell, 1930-2014
Actor Jim Beaver remembers the great actor Maximillian Schell.
Costing No Less Than Heaven: Terence Davies’ “The Long Day Closes”
An excerpt from a forthcoming book on Terence Davies by Michał Oleszczyk.
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project
Criterion partners with Martin Scorsese to offer amazing treasures of world cinema on Blu-ray and DVD.
Netflix’s “Mitt” Leads Wave of Sundance Films From Park City to Your Home
Many of the films at the Sundance Film Festival are going directly to television.
Our Far Flung Correspondents Write About “Life Itself”
Some of our Far Flung Correspondents have written about watching the documentary based on Roger’s memoir.
Moving Through Empathy: On “Life Itself”
Olivia Collette’s experience dealing with a loved one’s illness made “Life Itself” especially powerful for her.
A Small-town Film Festival Fights to Save a Local Theater
A film festival in Tipton, Iowa, makes an effort to save the local movie theater.
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” Gets the Deluxe Treatment from Criterion
An epic essay on an epic comedy of the 1960s, now given deluxe treatment on Blu-ray and DVD by Criterion.
The man, not the icon: “Life Itself” premieres at Sundance
The Sundance premiere of the Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself” was a cathartic experience for filmmakers, subjects and viewers alike.
“This is not only your film”: Steve James talks about his Roger Ebert documentary “Life Itself”
Matt Zoller Seitz interviews Steve James, director of “Life Itself,” a documentary adapting Roger Ebert’s memoir.
