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The 25th Anniversary of Ebertfest to Open with Star 80, With The Best Man As Its Centerpiece
by admin|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year 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|1 year 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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THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT: Sci-Fi Thriller Releases First-Look Clip Ahead of World Premiere at SXSW
by admin|1 year ago|Screen Anarchy
In order to escape police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking points....
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2024 New Directors/New Films Lineup Includes A Different Man, Good One, Stress Positions & More
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
A yearly spotlight glancing into the future of cinema, Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art have now announced the 53rd edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), taking place from April 3 through April 14, 2024. Bookending...
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Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen Stumbles Through the Door from Film to TV
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
Not all mediums work the same way. Say what you will about the overall quality, Guy Ritchie’s best work has a rhythm that fits film, whether it’s the zippy pace of something like “Snatch” or the gut punch of his underrated...
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30 Minutes On: Dune Part Two
by admin|1 year ago|Roger Ebert
I can't wait to watch both parts of Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" on the biggest theater screen I can find. I would imagine they'd fit together as perfectly as the first two "Godfather" movies, which they evoke not just in their sepia portraits...
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Silver Haze | Review
by admin|1 year ago|Ioncinema
Keeper of the Flame: Polak Reckons with Reconciliation vs. Retribution in Conventional Drama Dutch director Sacha Polak continues to explore the difficulties of acceptance and reclamation in her fourth feature, Silver Haze, another pseudo-sordid kitchen sink melodrama focused on wounded...
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Spaceman Review: Adam Sandler Finds an Alien Connection in Soulful Sci-Fi Odyssey
by admin|1 year ago|The Film Stage
The new film from Johan Renck, efficiently titled Spaceman, offers two central conceits. The first: that a vessel en route to a cloud of purple dust, somewhere in the region of Venus, might be visited by a benevolent alien with...
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