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2024 REGARD – Saguenay Intl. Short Film Festival: 205 Shorts & 35 Programs
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Just a little bit of time following the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand, the next major film festival dedicated to the short form is the REGARD – Saguenay Intl. Short Film Festival. Today they unveiled a stacked edition – a 35 program schedule...
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ERIC ROHMER’S TALES OF THE FOUR SEASONS – Criterion Blu-ray Review
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Some people call him Maurice; and he speaks of the pompatus of love (whatever that is).  But despite those similarities to the perennial FM radio hit of the thoroughly American Steve Miller Band, French auteur Éric Rohmer (real name: Maurice Schérer) was...
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Austin Butler and Tom Hardy Rev Up in New Trailer for Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
After seven long years following the one-two, varied punch of Midnight Special and Loving, director Jeff Nichols is finally back. The Bikeriders––bringing together the stellar cast of Tom Hardy, Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Michael Shannon, Boyd Holbrook, Norman Reedus, and...
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Nobody Else Is Doing What Emma Stone Is Doing Right Now
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Some people are members of “Saturday Night Live’s” Five-Timers Club. Some people have won two Best Actress Oscars. And some people are part of one of the most talked-about series of 2023. But no one is all of those people—unless...
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STING Clip: “What The Hell”
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet—and fight for her family’s survival—when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster. Well Go USA just released an exclusive clip...
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2024 New Directors/New Films Lineup: Aaron Schimberg’s ‘A Different Man’ To Open the 53rd Edition
by admin|2 years ago|Hammer to Nail
The New Directors/New Films festival has just announced the lineup of new breakout films for its 53rd edition. The annual festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, will take place from April 3 to April 14...
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The 25th Anniversary of Ebertfest to Open with Star 80, With The Best Man As Its Centerpiece
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Ebert Fest will be 25 Years Old!!! I am absolutely overjoyed to follow Variety's announcement that our Roger Ebert’s Film Festival "Ebertfest" will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year! It is incredible to think that the film festival Roger and I co-founded in 1999...
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Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis Targeting Major Fall IMAX Release
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Although there’s no distributor yet confirmed for Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-development, nearly completed epic Megalopolis, we’re starting to get a sense of when we may see the $100 million epic. The director himself recently indicated it’ll be out in a...
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Welcome to Chicago, Michał Oleszczyk!
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
I was delighted to attend the event at the Music Box in Chicago this week promoting the new book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema, by our former Film Critic Odie Henderson, who is now the head critic at The Boston Globe. Odie...
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Listen to Greta Gerwig, Guillermo del Toro, and Peter Bogdanovich Discuss Howard Hawks In Hour-Long Podcast
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
The glut of movie podcasts makes it hard to prioritize any single show. But there’s been unique pleasure in One Handshake Away, which allows directors to reflect on titans of yesteryear who host Peter Bogdanovich once interviewed––supplemented by audio of...
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