If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Supporting Actor
Omer M. Mozaffer champions Barkhad Abdi for Best Supporting Actor of 2013.
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2014: Best Supporting Actress
Glenn Kenny champions Lupita Nyong’o for Best Supporting Actress of 2013.
Notes on Subjective Cinema at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival
Three films at the Sundance Film Festival explored the power of making the camera see from the perspective of someone in the film.
Ever Try to Make A Film Critic Smile During Awards Season?
Peter Bart has set up a straw-man argument about critics, Academy voters and “entertainment value.” Erik Childress takes it apart.
Guild Awards Keep the Best Picture a Horserace
The Producers Guild, the Writers Guild and the Directors Guild have all weighed in. How good are they as predictors of the Oscars?
Alex Ross Perry: Cynicism & Cinema
Director Alex Ross Perry (“Impolex”, “The Color Wheel”) discusses cinephilia, cynicism, artistic betrayal and the death of film.
Oscars: Sundancing Into Awards History Or Obscurity
Eirk Childress looks at the track record of films from the Sundance Film Festival going to the Oscars.
Sundance: All the Films I Saw, Ranked
Sam Fragoso ranks all 22 films he saw at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance: All the Films I Saw, Ranked
Simon Abrams ranks the films he saw at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, from best to worst.
Sundance Report: “Skeleton Twins” and “The One I Love”
Sam Fragoso on two films at the Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Report: “They Came Together” and “Cooties”
Sam Fragoso seeks out comedy on his last day at Sundance.
Sundance Report: “The Trip to Italy” and “The Raid 2”
Simon Abrams on two sequels: “The Trip to Italy”, the sequel to the hilarious “The Trip”, and “The Raid 2”.
Sundance 2014: All Our Coverage
Links to all our coverage of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Report: “Listen Up Philip” and “The Better Angels”
Different as these two features may be, “Listen Up Philip” and “The Better Angels” both manage to respectfully pay homage without stripping themselves of their own voices.
Sundance Report: “20,000 Days on Earth”
Simon Abrams loves “20,000 Days on Earth”, a biographical doc about Australian musician Nick Cave as he wants to be seen.
Sundance Report: Championing a Gem “Imperial Dreams”
“Imperial Dreams” paints a harrowingly acute picture of life in Watts where the only pertinent question is whether you’ll be killed before you’re incarcerated or vice versa.
Sundance Report: “Love is Strange”, “Boyhood”, “The Voices” and “Calvary”
Simon Abrams goes from gory horror comedy to to earnest dramas about love, growing up and spirituality. Who says Sundance films are all the same?
“The word extraordinary is not big enough”: Chaz Ebert talks about Roger and watching “Life Itself” for the first time.
Chaz Ebert sat down with Sam Fragoso to talk about the premiere of “Life Itself” at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance: Lynn Shelton on Her New Film “Laggies”
Sam Fragoso talks to Lynn Shelton about improvisation, her first time directing a script written by someone else
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.
