Jigsaw
While I can't exactly recommend seeing Jigsaw, I can tell you that it's fun to watch. I just don't think it's the kind of fun…
While I can't exactly recommend seeing Jigsaw, I can tell you that it's fun to watch. I just don't think it's the kind of fun…
It is as flat as the well-manicured lawns in the idyllic neighborhood that gives it a name.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
A special edition of Thumbnails detailing the recent sexual harassment cases in the entertainment and tech industries and the brave women who broke their silence.
A collection of memories about Hugh Hefner and social media responses to his passing.
A special edition of Thumbnails detailing the recent sexual harassment cases in the entertainment and tech industries and the brave women who broke their silence.
A great documentary about a profound and mysterious artist.
A Great Movie is hidden somewhere within "Blade Runner" and "Blade Runner 2049."
Far flung correspondent Seongyong Cho writes about a warm contemporary romance drama from South Korea.
A recap of highlights from the just-ended London Film Festival.
Writer/director Margaret Betts talks about her nun story "Novitiate."
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017)
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Director
War Machine (2017)
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Ray Canucci
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)
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Himself
Touched With Fire (2016)
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George
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
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Broken City (2013)
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Sam Lancaster
The Great Buck Howard (2009)
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Jonathan
Game 6 (2006)
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Elliot Litvak
Practical Magic (1998)
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Directed by
Addicted to Love (1997)
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Directed by
Straight Talk (1992)
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Alan
Once Around (1991)
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Produced by
White Palace (1990)
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Produced by
Running on Empty (1988)
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Produced by
After Hours (1985)
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Paul Hackett, Produced by
Baby, It's You (1983)
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Produced by
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist’s work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
A New York Film Festival report on three Big Apple premieres.
A review of Amazon's "I Love Dick," starring Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon.
Premieres, Midnights, Special Events and more have been announced for next month's Sundance Film Festival.
A CIFF 2016 dispatch on Fisher Stevens and Alexis Bloom's "Bright Lights," Julia Ducournau’s "Raw," and Ken Loach's "I, Daniel Blake."
A new breed of female lead; A tale of two Fishers; Penn's hate-watch for the ages; "Paterson" is perfection; "The Salesman" marks Iran's post nuclear deal cinematic resurgence.
Marie writes: I may have been born in Canada, but I grew-up watching Sesame Street and Big Bird, too. Together, they encouraged me to learn new things; and why now I can partly explain string theory.That being the case, I was extremely displeased to hear that were it up Romney, as President he wouldn't continue to support PBS. And because I'm not American and can't vote in their elections, I did the only thing I could: I immediately reached for Photoshop....
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Welcome to a special Halloween edition of the Newsletter! Marie writes: the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris is considered one of the most beautiful cemeteries in the world, in addition to being the final resting place of many a famous name. From Édith Piaf, Sarah Bernhardt and Chopin to Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison and Georges Méliès, the well-known sleep on the tree-lined avenues of the dead and which you can now explore in a virtual 360 degree tour...
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Enlarge image: Newsroom hustle...
Enlarge image: ... and bustle. Notice the emphasis on women at work in the very first moments.
From That Little Round-Headed Boy:
"His Girl Friday": Anybody who ever worked in the journalism business, or wished they had been around for newspapering's madcap era, must feel a quickening at the opening tracking shot of Howard Hawks' classic comedy. As the camera tracks from right to left across the city room of the Chicago Morning Post, a smoky, hustling, chatty ambience hangs over the enterprise, as an editor yells out for a "Copy boy!", reporters are decked out in rolled-up shirts and green eye-shades, the women wear fashionable hats and the blue-collar switchboard gals are yammering in overdrive. The scene sets the fast-paced theme, and it never lets up.
JE: Good grief, TLRHB, that's a great one! (This should give readers an idea why they should check out TLRHB regularly.) As someone born with ink in his veins (red ink, I'm afraid), I know well the quickening of which you speak!
FFFgoer Andra Takacs files her account of the 2006 Floating Film Festival:
PARK CITY, Utah -- I took a day off to cover the Oscars, and I'm nine films behind. That's nine I've seen, not nine I've missed. They are so various and in many cases so good that the problem is to write about them without sounding like a crazed cinemaniac.
CANNES, France -- Every year they come here to the Riviera, the new class of young American filmmakers, hoping for lightning to strike. Ever since Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" arrived at Cannes in 1967 as a motorcycle film and returned to the United States as an art film, Cannes has provided a sort of festival within a festival, of first and early films by young Yankee hopefuls.