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Daughters
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
In 2013, Angela Patton gave a TEDXWomen Talk that went viral. She spoke about a program she created in Richmond, Virginia, to bring girls and their incarcerated fathers together in an environment that would make the fathers and daughters feel...
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Sugarcane
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The crimes of the Catholic Church are no secret to most citizens of the Western world. Yet, as is the case with many historical recollections, the deliverance of information is often filtered through a lens of whiteness, and victims of...
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Hollywood Black
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The tricky part with a docuseries like “Hollywood Black,” particularly if you have a deep reservoir of knowledge about its chosen subject, is realizing that it’ll probably never be as comprehensive as you’d like. After all, the four-part series directed...
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Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser than “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” a nostalgic Hong Kong action spectacular featuring the year’s most thrilling action filmmaking. Unbound by physics or any sense of psychological...
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Not Not Jazz
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
There's a scene in "Not Not Jazz," a film about the fusion jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood, where the camera prowls slowly around bassist Chris Wood as he slowly saws his upright bass on an upstate New York tennis court...
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Duchess
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s ascendance to his pop culture throne in the ‘90s, dozens of imitators tried to mimic his approach to filmmaking, only to fall flat on their faces. It turns out that what he does is much...
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Dance First
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The final words of his 1953 novel “The Unnamable” — “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” — are among the most famous written by Irish poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist Samuel Beckett. They epitomize both the hopelessness and the senseless...
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Running on Empty
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Would you like to know the day you will die? It’s a tricky thought exercise. What if you find out you’ll die at a ripe old age? That sure would make retirement investing and travel plans easier. But what if...
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NYC Weekend Watch: The Ghost Writer and Absolute Power on 35mm
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Roxy CinemaFidelio, our four-film program with Chapo Trap House’s Movie Mindset, closes with Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer and Clint Eastwood’s Absolute Power on 35mm, both introduced by myself, Will Menaker,...
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LITTLE BITES: RLJE Films and Shudder Acquire Spider One’s Next Horror Feature
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
In a desperate attempt to protect her ten year old daughter, a young widow allows a nightmarish monster to slowly eat her alive. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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