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Richard Linklater Casts Zoey Deutch as Jean Seberg in His French New Wave Film
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Between last week’s release of his under-the-radar documentary God Save Texas: Hometown Prison and the June release of his wildly entertaining crowdpleaser Hit Man, Richard Linklater is embarking on his next film. Set to shoot this month and April in...
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Do You Believe in Magic? In America Twenty Years On
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Do you believe in magic? It’s harder as we grow older, when test results or finances aren’t great, or life serves up some other mess to handle. But writer-director Jim Sheridan’s “In America,” which one critic called “a movie laced with magic and...
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Stay Vigilant: Directors Camille Hardman and Gary Lane on Still Working 9 to 5
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
The number one movie at the box office in 1980 was the second “Star Wars” movie, “The Empire Strikes Back.” The number two movie was a comedy about three female office workers. It became a cultural touchstone, along with its...
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A (Not So) Brief History of Silent Film Influences on Pop Music
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
When Taylor Swift dropped the cover for her upcoming album “The Tortured Poets Department,” classic and silent films fans were swirling over the title of one song in particular: “Clara Bow.” Articles sprung up explaining who exactly Bow was (although...
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The Best Legal and Courtroom Dramas
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Movies set in a law or court-based arena are ripe for potent cinematic drama. After all, there’s some sort of conflict—often an actual lawsuit—at the center. But the great films have more than that. First, there is the case at issue,...
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Horror Movies Should Give Up The Final Girl
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
The Final Girl needs no introduction, but here’s one anyway: she’ll get what she wants, if she’s holding the knife. Horror movies started relying on intrepid, doe-eyed Final Girls to round out their posters long before Professor Carol J. Clover...
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We’ll Be Together: A Personal Reflection of Bob Marley: One Love
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
“Bob Marley: One Love” by “King Richard” and “Monsters and Men” director Reinaldo Marcus Green hit the big screen on February 14th, 2024. The film is about the legacy of Bob Marley and his groundbreaking music, and also highlights his...
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Cabrini
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
There is a terrific scene late in the powerful and old-fashioned epic “Cabrini,” on the eponymous Italian Catholic missionary nun who not only founded a peerless orphanage in New York at the turn of the 20th century (and gave her...
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The Film Stage Show Ep. 530 – Dune: Part Two (with Max Evry)
by admin|4 months ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to a new episode of The Film Stage Show! Brian Roan and Robyn Bahr are joined by Max Evry (author of A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History) to discuss Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two. Enter...
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#479 March 5, 2024
by admin|4 months ago|Roger Ebert
Matt writes: It was on February 28th, 2014, that RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert gave me the green light to publicly announce that I had been hired to join her team. My initial job title was Assistant Editor at Ebert Publishing,...
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