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Paul Dano is Ready for His Next Mission
Paul Dano has done so much in a career that's spanned two decades, and he's just...
The Unloved, Part 123: Birth
Jonathan Glazer has always skirted the mainstream without becoming part of it. Maybe...
Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year
Unlike most of the Oscar ceremonies over the last decade, the biggest question we’ll...
Dune: Part Two
The word that will likely be used most often to describe Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune:...
Comedy is Defiance: Richard Lewis (1947-2024)
Richard Lewis was the first comedian I tried to model myself upon. That’s a nice...
Danny Boyle Explains What Made Cillian Murphy So Special...
For some viewers, Cillian Murphy’s presence in “Oppenheimer” might have been confusing:...
Eye on the Screen: David Bordwell (1947-2024)
David Bordwell was a teacher who became a friend. He opened my eyes to what cinema...
Red Right Hand
"If you're gonna survive in these hills, you'll have to get used to a little blood,"...
About Dry Grasses
Everybody lies. Whether with malice, for self-preservation, or to spare another’s...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: Honoree Martin Scorsese Honors...
(Pictured: Portraits of Martin Scorsese at the Berlinale Palast. As filmmakers and...
The Enduring Laughs—and Life—of Harold Ramis
My late husband Roger Ebert noted potential in Harold Ramis from the moment he awarded...
The Internet Will Never Let Russell Crowe Forget Les Miserables
Director Tom Hooper had just won an Oscar for “The King’s Speech” and now he had...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: The Roundup: Punishment, Last...
Not every dispatch has a unifying theme; this one is more of a hodgepodge. Among...
They Shot the Piano Player
Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who co-directed “They Shot the Piano Player,”...
Berlin Film Festival 2024: Demba, The Strangers' Case,...
Syria and Turkey, the Ivory Coast and China, Senegal, and a smidge of America are...
