Living
Writer (original screenplay)
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Akira Kurosawa
Interviews
Advance to Paradise, Retreat to Hell: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on “The Samurai and the Prisoner”
Tributes
The Woman Who Saved “Star Wars”: Marcia Lucas (1945-2026)
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide May 2026: The Bride!, Wuthering Heights, Sentimental Value, More
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2026 Video #1: The 79th Cannes Film Festival Begins!
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide April 2026: Send Help, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Highest 2 Lowest, More
Features
Chaz Ebert’s 30 Best Movies of 2025 (and One Guilty Pleasure)
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2025: The 63rd Edition Comes to a Close
Video Games
“The Ghost of Yōtei” is One of the Most Cinematic Games of the Year
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: “28 Years Later,” “Materialists,” “Superman,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” More
Features
Robert Daniels & Odie Henderson Talk “Highest 2 Lowest”
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: Second Takes on a Few Fest Darlings
DVD/Blu-Ray
January 2025 Blu-Ray Guide: “Hundreds of Beavers,” “Smile 2,” “Venom: The Last Dance,” and More
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide: November 2024
Features
Apocalypse Then: Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Festivals & Awards
Tokyo International Film Festival 2024: Godzilla Turns 70
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Festival 2024: Preview and Thoughts on “The Brutalist,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Features
Seven Samurai Continues Its Ride Through Cinema’s Past and Future
MZS
Furiosa Doesn’t Feel Like Any Other Mad Max Film, and That’s What’s Wonderful About It
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2024: Normal Normal or Cannes Normal?
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2024 Video #2: The Festival Takes Off
Tributes
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It Before: Roger Corman (1926-2024)
MZS
It’s OK For Movies to Just End
Video Games
Rise of the Ronin Wastes Interesting Setting with Clunky Gameplay
Far Flungers
On the Sustained Emotional Strength of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2023
Chaz at Cannes
Five Great Tales from Cannes’ Past
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2023
Features
A Road Paved with Bloodshed: High Plains Drifter Turns 50
Interviews
The Whole Gag is Excess: Chad Stahelski on John Wick: Chapter 4
Tributes
Only Remember Beautiful Moments: Carlos Saura (1932-2023)
Tributes
Tom Luddy (1943-2023)
Features
Book Excerpt: In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema by Godfrey Cheshire
Interviews
Tragedy Actually Brings Hope: Bill Nighy on Living
Features
Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022
Festivals & Awards
Major Questions of the 2022 Oscar Race After TIFF
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: When You Finish Saving the World, Living, Call Jane
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: 20 Films We Can’t Wait to See
Video Games
Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut Expands Gorgeous Game
Features
Bringing Out the Dead: A Pandemic Dialogue
Features
The 10 Best Films for National Paranormal Day
Chaz's Journal
Meet the Writers: Carlos Aguilar
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2020
Video Games
Sony’s Ghost of Tsushima Pays Homage to Samurai Cinema
MZS
Smile When You Say That: Joker’s Last Laugh
Festivals & Awards
NYFF 2019: A Year of Milestones
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: July 11, 2019
Festivals & Awards
A Sneak Peek at The Mandalorian from Star Wars Celebration Chicago
TV/Streaming
The Best Current Source for Streaming Classic Movies is … Amazon Prime?
Features
Book Review: People Only Die of Love in Movies: Film Writing by Jim Ridley
TV/Streaming
Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s “100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912-2012”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 22, 2017
Festivals & Awards
Ebertfest 2017: “Hysteria,” “The Handmaiden,” “Elle”
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: January 5, 2017
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 17, 2016
Features
2016 Fall Movie Preview: 50 Movies That’ll Prove Film Isn’t Dead
Features
Thumbnails 5/26/16
Interviews
The Wind and the Rain: Jon Favreau and Neel Sethi on “The Jungle Book”
Features
Thumbnails 4/8/16
Features
No Home Video: On Women-Directed Films
Features
The Ten Best Films of 2015
TV/Streaming
Criterion Remasters of “The Apu Trilogy” and “Ikiru” Top Holiday Wish Lists
Features
Setsuko Hara: 1920-2015
Features
The Strange Case of “The Other Side of Midnight”
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Simon Abrams
Features
Thumbnails 5/11/15
Features
Thumbnails 1/29/15
Features
Thumbnails 11/17/14
Far Flungers
The Lunchbox: Old School Anonymity Softens New World Discontent
Features
Thumbnails 7/17/14
Festivals & Awards
“Film & Cultural Politics” at Ebertfest
Features
Blu-ray Consumer Guide: April 2, 2014
Features
Thumbnail 2/21/14
Features
Meet the Writers: Simon Abrams
Features
Thumbnails 9/25/2013
Far Flungers
Dark Horse and the Samurai Tradition
Features
100 Great Moments in the Movies
Roger Ebert
Why samurai overact
Roger Ebert
TCM’s 15 most influential films of all time, and 10 from me
Roger Ebert
Celebrating the Kurosawa-Mifune collaboration
Roger Ebert
100 great movie moments
Scanners
101 102 Movies You Must See Before…
Scanners
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Scanners
Elected: 100 Must-See Foreign Films
Scanners
Bordwell & Thompson: Crix of the ’00s!
Scanners
Top secret leakage from my 2010 Muriels ballot!
Scanners
Name That Director!
Scanners
The Monthlies
Scanners
Opening Shots: ‘Yojimbo’
Scanners
You better you better you best: The better of the best lists
Far Flungers
“The Messenger” discussed by Omar Moore of London and San Francisco
Far Flungers
A man with storms in his head
TV/Streaming
Ants in Your Pants of 2006
Roger Ebert
The best damned film list of them all
Roger Ebert
The Twelve Gifts of Christmas
Roger Ebert
A few calm words about The List
Festivals & Awards
A brief history of samurai
Festivals & Awards
Cannes all winners
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 1980: Kurosawa at Cannes
Festivals & Awards
