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The Ebert Fellows Go to Ebertfest 2024
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
Editor’s note: Every spring we say farewell to the latest trio of University of Illinois College of Media Roger Ebert Fellows, whose work includes reports filed for rogerebert.com. The 2023-24 Fellows–Hanna Brazas-Mata, Caroline Tadla and Stephanie Wayda—talked to Ebertfest participants...
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Cannes 2024 Video #2: The Festival Takes Off
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The Cannes Film Festival is underway, and Chaz Ebert is on the ground to report on every development, including the introduction of the jury, led by Greta Gerwig. Watch the video below, followed by the transcript. We’re back in the...
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The Hyperboreans | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
From the Land of Ice and Snow: Cocina & Leon Pursue Hermetical Cinematic Spell To say the latest feature from the experimentally inclined Chilean directing duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña is unclassifiable would be something of an understatement, delving...
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Two More Weeks in the Midday Sun
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
I was fortunate enough to meet Roger and Chaz Ebert in 2010 as they interviewed directors to pilot their upcoming public television review program. But as I mentioned to Roger, even though we were meeting for the first time, I...
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Criterion in August 2024: Albert Brooks, Albert Brooks, Martha Coolidge, THE LAST EMPEROR in 4K
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Plus: two long-suppressed features by Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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The Damned | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
The Damned Do Cry: Minervini Details a Doomed Mission For his first narrative feature, Roberto Minervini tackles another aspect of the evolving American identity with The Damned. A period piece depicting a company of volunteer soldiers charged with patrolling and protecting...
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The B-Side – In Conversation with Eric Bana
by admin|2 years ago|The Film Stage
Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And sometimes if we’re lucky we talk...
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Cannes 2024: Table of Contents
by admin|2 years ago|Roger Ebert
The following table of contents contains Chaz Ebert's video dispatches from Cannes 2024, produced by herself and Scott Dummler of Mint Media Works, and written dispatches by Robert Daniels, Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber, Isaac Feldberg, Scott Dummler, and Lisa Nesselson.  Video Dispatches: A...
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Cannes 2024 Review: IT DOESN’T MATTER, A Black Man Comes of Age in Modern America
by admin|2 years ago|Screen Anarchy
Jay Will and Christopher Abbott star as best friends in Josh Mond's second feature film after his 2015 debut, 'James White.' [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
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Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
by admin|2 years ago|Ioncinema
Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as a backdrop for a pseudo gangland thriller and romantic drama in Locust. Much like its...
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