Great Movies
Interviews
Looking for Loneliness: Wayne Wang on His Career
An interview with the director of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, Chan is Missing, Smoke, and many more.
An interview with the director of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, Chan is Missing, Smoke, and many more.
Matt writes: Last week, RogerEbert.com presented its 2022 edition of Women Writers Week, featuring remarkable reviews, interviews and essays from essential female writers including our site's publisher Chaz Ebert; Contributing Editor Nell Minow; critics Sheila O'Malley, Christy Lemire, Tomris Laffly; frequent contributors Marya E. Gates, Nandini Balial, Ciara Wardlow; and many others.
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
The famed director of Romeo & Juliet, La Traviata, Jesus of Nazareth and more passed away this weekend at the age of 96.
A tribute to the great journalist, Tom Wolfe.
Chaz Ebert highlights films with the potential to get us through the confusing political times of the Trump presidency.
A celebration of Wim Wenders' 1991 epic "Until the End of the World," of which a new 295-minute cut will be screening at the Gene Siskel Film Center on November 20 and 21.
Lists from our critics and contributors on the best of 2014.
A dispatch from the 2014 NYFF, including "Hill of Freedom," "The Princess of France," "Life of Riley" and "Two Shots Fired."
"Life Itself" movie reviews; Frances Dodds on Roger; Filmmaker Magazine interviews Steve James; "Midnight Rider" filmmakers charged; Natural remedy to repel mosquitoes.
The new co-production from three cable networks doesn't give them much bang for their bucks.
Peter Sobczynski ranks 27 films by Brian De Palma.
Marie writes: As some of you may have heard, a fireball lit up the skies over Russia on February 15, 2013 when a meteoroid entered Earth's atmosphere. Around the same time, I was outside with my spiffy new digital camera - the Canon PowerShot SX260 HS. And albeit small, it's got a built-in 20x zoom lens. I was actually able to photograph the surface of the moon!
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Marie writes: Behold the entryway to the Institut Océanographique in Paris; and what might just be the most awesome sculpture to adorn an archway in the history of sculptures and archways. Photo @ pinterest
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Marie writes: Recently, we enjoyed some nice weather and inspired by the sunshine, I headed out with a borrowed video camera to shoot some of the nature trails up on Burnaby Mountain, not far from where I live. I invariably tell people "I live near Vancouver" as most know where that is - whereas Burnaby needs explaining. As luck would have it though, I found a great shot taken from the top of Burnaby Mountain, where you can not only see where I live now but even Washington State across the Canadian/US border...
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Is it love at first sight? It's certainly lust at first sight between them in the beginning. Something clicks inside. They soon begin their secret affair, and then, motivated by their common desire to escape from the world they're stuck in, they hatch a scheme to solve their problems once for all. They have a good plan. They can succeed if they carefully tiptoe along the thin line they draw. However, in the world of film noir, it is usually easier said than done.
