The Absolute Best (and Worst) of Nearly Everything MMXIII
The motion-picture-not-including-television edition.
View ArticleViolence on Film in 2013
On the year's most memorably disturbing uses of explicit violence and gore.
View ArticleHal Hartley’s Punch-Drunk Love
On the 'Cinema of Contradiction' of a true American 'indie' director, Hal Hartley.
View ArticleMark Rappaport’s MOZART IN LOVE
Featuring characters who suffer nobly, love honorably and die beautifully. Or, at least, they think they do.
View ArticleDaily | Michael Snow, Anniversaries, #Ebertchat
Plus forthcoming films by Pen-ek Ratanaruang and Sion Sono.
View ArticleDaily | Grémillon, Linklater, Spike Lee
Plus fresh lineups on both coasts, lists, interviews and more.
View ArticleShort Films of Short Stories
No padding, no gristle: short stories and the short films that love the lean meat.
View ArticleDaily | Spike Lee and DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS
And a 25th anniversary screening of DO THE RIGHT THING kicks off a retrospective at BAM. Updated through 6/29.
View ArticleThe Essential Black Independents
Twenty-five films from a global pool of black cinema that have to be seen.
View ArticleBetter than BOYHOOD? Ten Best Films of 2014
The very best film of the year opens a way for us to see out of the cinema we already know into one that’s yet to come.
View ArticleDaily | Issues | Cinema Scope, Senses, LOLA
Plus La Furia Umana, Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, Movie and more.
View ArticleFrom GANJA AND HESS to Spike Lee’s DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS—and Back Again
Anything but a standard boobs- and fangs-bearing vampire flick, GANJA AND HESS is digressive, experimental, ambiguous, poetical, educated and fascinating.
View ArticleDaily | Interviews | Ballhaus, Coppola, Dante
Plus Matt Zoller Seitz on Wes Anderson's THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL.
View ArticleKicking and Screaming: THE BIRTH OF A NATION at 100
THE BIRTH OF A NATION in retrospect: a century hasn't salved the pain. Plus: a guide to D.W. Griffith at Biograph.
View ArticleDaily | In the Works | Serra, Gray, Bird
And Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore are lining up their next projects.
View ArticleKickstarting Abel Ferrara’s SIBERIA
'You have to play every card and put your heart on your sleeve every time.'
View ArticleThe Best of the Year’s Cinema So Far
On films that require your respect and attention—and reward you accordingly.
View ArticleGuy Maddin’s Lusty Ghosts
'THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is haunted by the spirit of sexploitation from start to finish.'
View ArticleDaily | Spike Lee, Guzmán, Cavani
Plus a film series from Richard Linklater and music from David Lynch.
View ArticleDaily | Lee Chang-dong, Hitchcock, Carpenter
Plus movie posters in context and in motion.
View ArticleDaily | Bujalski, Haynes, Duvivier
And the creators of The Dissolve return with a new podcast.
View ArticleDaily | Ruiz, Spielberg, Gomes
Plus early raves for Quentin Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT.
View ArticleBack to WORKING GIRLS
Thirty years on, Lizzie Borden's feminist landmark still feels radical.
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