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Daisies in the crevices - 1 hour ago
DB here: If you wanted a prototype of some unique visual pleasures of 1930s cinema, you could do...
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Things we like of late - 6 days ago
One of several posters the Stenberg brothers designed for Miss Mend. We’ve been quite busy in...
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Between you, me, and the bedpost - 1 week ago
Imitation of Life. DB here: I do not like finding phallic symbols in movies. I grant you that there...
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Don’t knock the blockbusters - 2 weeks ago
Promoting Pirates of the Caribbean in Japan (By tralala.online) Kristin here: When was the last...
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Wrapping up the ROW - 3 weeks ago
Paparazzi swarm over the nominees for the Dragons and Tigers Award at the Vancouver International...
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Wantons and wontons - 1 month ago
Oxhide II. DB here, with more from the Vancouver film fest: Two of the more innovative films I saw...
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The ROW strikes again - 1 month ago
The Time that Remains. Kristin here: Last year I remarked on how festivals like Vancouver are...
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Veteran's Day: The skin beneath the uniform - 9 hours ago
"When in uniform I have to be the exact same as everyone else, I need to look exactly like them...
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Jason Reitman's question pie - 13 hours ago
Now engaged in a marathon publicity junket for his new film "Up in the Air," director Jason Reitman...
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Barry Levinson on how to handle criticism - 16 hours ago
In a reply to what he feels is a misleading (nay, delusional) review of his essay film "Poliwood"...
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Rescued and reposted: A Crash Course in Cronenberg - 2 days ago
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally...
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Rescued, reposted: The story of a man and his hat - 3 days ago
Another in a series of video essays that disappeared from the web earlier this year when iKlipz...
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Jon Stewart channels Glenn Beck's intestines - 4 days ago
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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Reviewing Altman - 6 days ago
Richard Schickel wrote a book review of Robert Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff....
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Apocalypse now: 'Collapse' and the end of the world as we know it - yesterday
America has a bad case of the doomsday jitters.
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Walt Disney Studios President Mark Zoradi resigns - yesterday
The studio distribution veteran is leaving the company after 29 years as restructuring continues...
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Jim Cameron's 'Avatar' price tag: How about a cool $500 million? - yesterday
When it comes to a mega-blockbuster like "Avatar," studios like Fox don't just hedge their bets.
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David Ansen named artistic director of the Los Angeles Film Festival - yesterday
A critic at Newsweek from 1977 through 2008, Ansen continues to write for the magazine as a...
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Once again TV, not film, drives Lionsgate growth - yesterday
Lions Gate Entertainment swung to $31.7 million in net income during its second fiscal quarter...
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See It On Film: November 2009 - 1 week ago
Here are some of the films from the Criterion Collection that are showing in the Los Angeles area in...
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See It On Film: October 2009 - 1 month ago
Here are some of the films from the Criterion Collection that are showing in the Los Angeles area in...
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#94: I Know Where I'm Going! - 2 months ago
I Know Where I'm Going!, 1945, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. After...
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See it on Film: September 2009 - 2 months ago
I saw Play Time on 70mm at the Aero a few weeks back, and it occurred to me that this site's focus...
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#93: Black Narcissus - 2 months ago
Black Narcissus, 1947, directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, screenplay by Michael...
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Studios' top negotiator is all ears - 8 hours ago
As president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, Carol Lombardini says that...
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Motion filed to dismiss Letterman case - 8 hours ago
Robert Joel Halderman's attorney says his client's actions did not meet New York state's definition...
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Tale of the talk: Wanda Sykes, George Lopez - 8 hours ago
Sykes' comedic bite is on full, if shaky, display on Fox while Lopez treads a familiar funny-guy...
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With the World Series complete, CBS returns to the top - 8 hours ago
'NCIS' leads scripted programming. ...
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'Sesame Street' at 40: The importance of being Ernie -- and Bert and Kermit . . . - yesterday
Beyond ABCs and 1, 2, 3, a multicultural cast and iconic puppets have entertained and educated...
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Pssst -- heard the latest on 'Gossip Girl'? - 2 days ago
A sex romp plot line is drawing protests, which might actually help the CW show's sagging ratings. ...
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Much teen love for 'Isa TKM' - 2 days ago
Across Latin America, the main character's kooky antics have spawned a legion of adoring fans. Now,...
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Angus T. Jones proves a good boy is hard to find - 3 days ago
The fraction in 'Two and a Half Men' is growing up fast. ...
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Michael Caine: bring back national service - 3 hours ago
The 76-year-old actor and Korean war veteran said it would be great way to give young people 'a...
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Twilight sucks up People's Choice award nominations - 4 hours ago
Vampire love affair leads race for public's votes with six nodsIt's unlikely to figure at next...
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Out of Ethiopia: film-makers and the weight of memory - 5 hours ago
More than three decades after many Ethiopians left their country for exile, there is now a small but...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest's pick of the pics - yesterday
A sterling year has wrapped with a raft of new trophies – the finest of the winners amply...
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Meeting Marshak: a consummate exclusive clip from the Coen brothers' A Serious Man - 1 hour ago
I loved the Coen brothers' masterpiece of suburban comedy, and this exclusive clip gives a wonderful...





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