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Cinema Survey 25: The Elephant Man, The Untouchables, and A Summer’s Tale.
F1 and 28 Years Later offer two futures for moviemaking, neither entirely satisfying.
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar (2011) posits that Hoover was more interested in his public image than the law.
Bennington joins the hundreds of people beginning production on The Adventures of Cliff Booth.
With Sorry, Baby, writer/director Eva Victor successfully juggles a variety of risky tones.
A slight majority of exhibitors says “traditional moviegoing” has less than 20 years left—what would the end look like?
Stealing Pulp Fiction bungles its promising premise.
Abel Ferrara's Zeroes and Ones remains the best pandemic film, and a portent of things to come.
28 Years Later is a mostly brilliant and thoroughly unpleasant sequel with an utterly unnecessary final scene.
Principal cast assembles for rehearsals on The (Continuing?) Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Celine Song’s Materialists strains to break beyond its poorly-written screenplay.
Airport, despite being overshadowed by its parody Airplane!, remains a solid and underrated blockbuster.
Celine Song's follow up to Past Lives is more commercial and less romantic.
Amazon Prime's Deep Cover is a meta action-comedy carried by the cast of just-past-their-prime actors.
F1 may be an exercise in corporate management, but it's also an exciting pastiche of Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1990s blockbusters.
The highly anticipated follow up to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later is the worst of the three films by far.
Looking back on Western film Shane (1953) after a weekend in Jackson Hole.
Len Wiseman's The Ballerina reminds us why the femme fatale format works & what has kept interested in the subject matter over the past few decades.
Argentine Noir film The Bitter Stems is exceptional.
Films reminiscent of the humid hot summers in Baltimore.
Román Viñoly Barreto’s 1953 film The Black Vampire edges on horror and brings something different to the typical noir films of that time.
The 33-year-old filmmaker talks about the long production process of his legendary first film.
The director talks about Ousmane Sembène, Ingmar Bergman, Double Indemnity, and more.
Larry Charles talks about how and why his former collaborator "sold out to Hollywood" in the early-2010s.
The filmmaker talks about everything from Bottle Rocket to The Phoenician Scheme.
Robert Rodriguez talks to the director of Here, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Back to the Future, and more.
The late director talks about his neo noir starring Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, and many others.
The actor talks about his espionage franchise and his long career in the movies.
The director and actor talk about their work on Angel Heart.
The actor talks about his brilliant career in this two hour interview recorded on December 11, 1997.