Sometimes It Snows in April: Images of Prince
An essay on Prince’s masculinity, artistry and blackness.
Features
Dearly Beloved: The RogerEbert.com Staff Remembers Prince
The staff of RogerEbert.com shares their memories of Prince.
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Fans, fiction and representation; Emer Kinsella on a life in music; Glenn Kenny on “The Girlfriend Experience”; LAPD officer performs a rescue; Why we grieve artists we haven’t met.
Ronit Elkabetz: 1964 – 2016
A tribute to the late Israeli actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz.
Mark Caro Presents “Is It Still Funny?” at Chicago’s Music Box Theatre
Mark Caro investigates the comedic viability of classic funny films with a new series at the Music Box Theatre.
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Karyn Kusama is not going away; Why music biopics fall flat; Pupinia Stewart is stealing my sanity; Interactive storytelling reshaping cinema; Price of “Girlfriend Experience” too high.
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2016: “An Attempt at Something” by Matt Brennan
An excerpt from the April 2016 issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room about “The Hours.”
A farewell to Nashville film critic Jim Ridley: a civic institution and everybody’s friend
A tribute to the late Jim Ridley from friend and colleague, Noel Murray.
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Brad Bischoff on “The Grasshopper”; Seismic shift in the film festival world; Relevance of “The Second Civil War”; Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Black Panther”; Ode to “Bad News Bears.”
No Survivors and Heroes: “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”
One of our critics looks at what “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” says about life in 2016.
Much More Than Movies: The Best of Roger’s Journal
A look at some of Roger’s best journal writing.
The Society of the Real: How An Intrepid Group of Newsreel Cameramen Changed Documentary Film
Robert Drew is not a household word, but he should be; all modern documentary cinema comes from 1960s innovations by him and his collaborators.
Short Films in Focus: “The Little Deputy”
An interview with the director of “The Little Deputy” and a presentation of the short film.
30 Minutes on: “Midnight Special”
30 Minutes on the latest by Jeff Nichols (“Take Shelter,” “Mud”).
No Home Video: On Women-Directed Films
A reposting of Tina Hassannia’s article from Movie Mezzanine, and the response it received from Peter Becker, president of the Criterion Collection.
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Dorothy Malone on “The Fast and the Furious”; Forgotten female action stars; Lynn True and Nelson Walker on “In Transit”; Donald Trump’s abortion logic; Why Christians hate Christian movies.
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists: The First Ten Years
A celebration of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists on their tenth anniversary.
Meet the Writers: Monica Castillo
Monica Castillo responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Violence is a Very Sad Poetry: The Films of Sam Peckinpah
A look at Sam Peckinpah’s relationship with violence and women in light of a retrospective at The Lincoln Center in New York.
