Great Movies
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020: Boys State, A Thousand Cuts, The Social Dilemma
A dispatch from Sundance on three documentaries that premiered at the festival, including the Grand Jury Prize winner, Boys State.
A dispatch from Sundance on three documentaries that premiered at the festival, including the Grand Jury Prize winner, Boys State.
Chaz Ebert reveals her list of movies from 2018 to see before awards season 2019.
A review of new films from Paolo Sorrentino and Jason Reitman.
A recap of the films that played at this year’s Telluride Film Festival, including First Man, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Boy Erased and more.
A piece on the representation of the C-section in American movies.
Sheila writes: The New York Film Festival, which ended on October 14, ran a new retrospective of the films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. In preparation, Adrian Curry (at Mubi) started searching out for cool posters of Mankiewicz's films. Curry writes: "When I started to search for posters for his films I felt a little uninspired myself and wondered whether Mankiewicz’s smart, wordy cinema didn’t really lend itself to inventive visual representation. Some of his best films, like 'The Ghost and Mrs Muir' and 'A Letter to Three Wives', had very mundane American posters. But, digging deeper, I found that there was more than meets the eye, especially among international posters for his films." Go check out the gallery of fantastic posters, one of which, the Japanese poster for "The Barefoot Contessa", is posted below.
Roderick Heath on "We Are the Best!"; The whiplash of journalism; Hollywood's secret sequel economy; Chatting with Seth Meyers; Kirk Douglas on Lauren Bacall.
Jason Bateman talks about directing, working with kids, and shaking up his nice-guy image for an R-rated comedy.
Author Joyce Maynard talks about teaching Jason Reitman to bake a pie, writing a romance about a mother, and seeing the stories she writes as a film in her imagination.
The Toronto International Film Festival tribute to Roger was a time for tears, laughter and memories.
Roger was a tireless advocate for the films he loved. Sometimes that gave a film a little boost. Sometimes his praise saved the day for a film that might have disappeared without him. Here are eight films whose fate was shaped in part by Roger's reviews.
