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Sorry/Not Sorry
by admin|11 months ago|Roger Ebert
Produced by The New York Times's video division, and depending heavily on its own reporting, "Sorry/Not Sorry" is a primer on the rise, fall and reinvention of  Louis C.K. A respected standup comic who remade himself as a low-budget arthouse...
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Sisi & I
by admin|11 months ago|Roger Ebert
Let’s get one obvious thing out of the way: Yes, it hasn’t been that long since we’ve had a feature film on the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, commonly known to public as Sisi. That film was Marie Kreutzer’s “Corsage” (2022),...
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Touch
by admin|11 months ago|Roger Ebert
“Touch,” from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, is vast in scope, stretching over decades, languages, continents, and cultures, with themes of memory, aging, loss, and love. But its sensibility is as exquisitely tender as the flutter of a butterfly wing.  Kristófer...
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SING SING Review: Colman Domingo Leads Dynamite Cast in Stirring Prison Drama
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
Located just 30 miles from New York City on the Hudson River, the Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a 200-year-old maximum security prison, incarcerates what the criminal (in)justice system considers the worst of the worst, repeat, violent offenders serving decades-long sentences....
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New to Streaming: The Bikeriders, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Wildcat, Godard Cinema & More
by admin|11 months ago|The Film Stage
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. The Animal Kingdom (Thomas Cailley) In The Animal Kingdom, an Un Certain Regard-selected science-fiction romp...
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The B-Side – Chris Pine
by admin|11 months 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. Today we talk about the best Chris...
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NYC Weekend Watch: Zoë Lund, Trans Film, Colonel Blimp & More
by admin|11 months ago|The Film Stage
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. Anthology Film ArchivesA Zoë Lund retrospective includes films by Abel Ferrara and Larry Cohen; Stan Brakhage plays in “Essential Cinema.” Museum of the Moving ImageFilms by Robert Altman, Isabel Sandoval,...
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DIRTY BAD WRONG: Canadian Body Horror Short to Premiere at Fantasia
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
As we continue to highlight Canadian short films playing at Fantasia as word gets to us, the next one on our list is Dirty Bad Wrong, from writer/director Erica Orofino. It is having its World Premiere on Monday, July 29th,...
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HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE Teaser: Fifth Chapter of Popular Horror Franchise is on The Way
by admin|11 months ago|Screen Anarchy
The day that writer/director Stephen Cognetti makes a feature film that is anything but a new chapter of the Hell House LLC franchise would be a day that the horror community goes into a tail spin.   Okay, not really,...
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The Gene Siskel Film Center Celebrates the First and Last of Famous Filmmakers with their Entrances & Exits Series
by admin|11 months ago|Roger Ebert
The first and last films of any filmmaker's oeuvre serve as fascinating signposts of their work -- sometimes they feel like acute demonstrations of their progress as filmmakers throughout the years, others feel like elliptical representations of the same themes...
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