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Paul Schrader Accused of Sexually Harassing Assistant and Reneging on Settlement - Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” has been accused in a legal filing of sexually harassing his former assistant, and of b...

Seven Documentary Organizations Sign Letter Decrying DOGE National Endowment for the Humanities Cuts - Seven filmmaker support organizations, including the International Documentary Association, Women Make Movies and Third World Newsreel, have signed a let...

Paul Schrader Denies Alleged Sexual Assault of Former Assistant in Cannes Hotel Room - An attorney for the director tells IndieWire his client intends to vigorously fight these accusations, which were included in a breach-of-contract lawsuit ...

No Escape - The usual stuff. Some promising material about totalitarian maximum-security imprisonment in the year 2022 is quickly succeeded by OK action a la The Roa...

North American Anime, Manga Releases, March 30-April 5 - My Hero Academia: You're Next, Berserk of Gluttony anime; The Dashing Zaddy and His Icy Protégé, Pink Candy Kiss manga ship

‘Dying for Sex’ Creators Explain Why They Turned a Real-Life Cancer Story Into a ‘Wild Slapstick’ Comedy - Liz Meriwether and Kim Rosenstock tell TheWrap about embracing the emotional range and friendship at the heart of the FX series The post ‘Dying for Sex’...

IMAX and AMC Theatres Pioneer New Tech For Cinemas - Big news out of CinemaCon! As reported in THR, IMAX and AMC Theatres announced a significant expansion of their long-standing partnership this week. No...

Jojo Rabbit star Roman Griffin Davis & voice actor James Arnold Taylor on The King of Kings - Written and directed by Seong-ho Jang, the new faith based animation The King Of Kings draws inspiration from The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens. F...

Grunts Be Gruntin' - I briefly mentioned this earlier this week but I have yet another dentist appointment this afternoon, and so depending on how that goes this might be it f...

A Female Boss: The Oppressor Wins - Who doesn't want to see a light romantic comedy in which the misogynist comes out on top? Well, I don't. But here we are with *A Female Boss*, a jarring ...

Why Box Office Game Is a Daily Must for Movie Buffs - If you’re the kind of person who casually drops movie release dates in conversation like it’s your love language, Box Office Game might be your new daily...

Interview…Wow Jones and JimiJame$ on Propulsive Sounds, Gut-Feelings, and Musical Confidence - On today’s show, we got the thrilling opportunity to chat with two powerhouse musicians/composers and creators. These superstars have unparalleled talent a...

13 Reviews by Roger Ebert for the 2025 Day4Empathy - We're giving the site back to Roger today. Here's why.

Restless ★★★★ - Released: Friday 4th April 2025 Directed: Jed Hart Cast: Lyndsey Marshal, Aston McAuley, Barry Ward For the audience, Restless lasts a mere 89 minutes. F...

Friday's Old Fashioned: The Fugitive (1993) - Upon its release in 1993, “The Fugitive” was critically acclaimed, a box office smash, and the rare more than middling thriller to earn the ultimate acknow...

CRUISE THANKS DE PALMA, WOO, JJ ABRAMS, BRAD BIRD - *AS HE PRESENTS McQUARRIE WITH DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FROM CINEMACON* [image: https://www.angelfire.com/de/palma/deadlinereckoning.jpg] *Tom Cruise* ap...

George Washington - [David Gordon Green • 2000]

SAKKA Online Streaming Service Takes Us to “A Far Shore,” an Okinawa-set drama by Masaaki Kudo, set for release on April 18 - Details on the streaming debut of Masaaki Kudo's "A Far Shore" on SAKKA, coming April 18th, 2025.

The Beatles Bio-Pics: 10 Things I Wish for the Beatles Film Series - If there was ever the story of someone monumental that people want to see on the big screen, it would have to be an audacious project. A film about the...

The Film Comment Podcast: New Directors/New Films 2025 - On the lookout: critics Mark Asch and Natalia Keogan join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including *Familiar Touch*, *Mad Bi...

EXCLUSIVE: Jamale Pringle and UPP Entangled in Foreign-Backed Plot to Derail Antigua’s Sovereignty - By Shockya Investigations TeamSt. John’s, Antigua – April 2, 2025 A blistering private criminal prosecution launched in the Magistrate’s Court of Antigua...

The Kid from Not-So-Big (1978) - A harmless but unimpressive attempt at mimicking Disney’s family-friendly formula, *The Kid from Not-So-Big *is somewhat akin to Disney’s silly...

Call for Submissions, JHI Blog Forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History” - Inspired by a panel at the 2025 American Historical Association annual conference, this JHI Blog Forum will collect and publish short reflections on the re...

Symphony for a Massacre (Symphonie pour un massacre, France-Italy 1963) - This is one of the films featured in the Radiance catalogue of Blu-rays using restored prints. I would describe it as a polar – the familiar French crime f...

Hard Truths - Writer/director Mike Leigh actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste Jean-Baptiste with the director cinematographer Dick Pope ...

Honey, I'm Home - Film: *The Return* Format: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on basement television. There’s almost always some value in looking at the true classics when it...

Last Call and Misericordia on Monday Morning Diary (March 31) - by Sam Juliano The 1910s decade poll will run until Friday, April 4th. The response has been fantastic! The results will be posted over the weekend, follow...

The Anime Nostalgia Podcast - ep 141: Creative Conversations with Sarah Myer - Subscribers! Be sure to go to the blog to read the description easier & check out links for this episode! *Treat yourself or a loved one! TokyoTreat makes...

They Think It's Normal - New York is the past for me now. I don’t know what goes on there anymore. Maybe it’s worse, which seems possible based on the headlines and other things I...

THROWBACK THURSDAY / TREEFORT MUSIC FEST 2016—The Evening Class Interview With Tispur (née Samwise Carlson) - It is wonderful to see how the Treefort Music Fest has expanded over the years, but I will always have a fondness for its early years and the young music...

CAMERA on Campus UK Urges Action as Professor David Miller’s Antisemitic Rhetoric Fuels Hostility on UK Campuses - CAMERA on Campus UK is deeply alarmed by the continued influence of Professor David Miller, whose rhetoric and actions have become a significant source of ...

Play ball! - The Dodgers’ home opener at Dodger Stadium is today (against the Tigers). As is customary around here, let’s take a look at John Ford in his Dodgers cap. H...

Is Gal Gadot (Greenstein) a Psyop? -

FQ 78.3 Spring 2025 - All articles unlocked at UC Press! TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM THE EDITOR EDITOR’S NOTEBOOKJ. M. Tyree SPECIAL FOCUS: HONG KONG CINEPHILIA REIMAGINEDEdited by J...

Contra (2025) Review - Contra is an entertaining ode to 80’s action and 8-bit video games! by Nav Qateel Based on the 1987 game of the same name, the short film Contra attempts...

Materialists trailer -

‘Geography of the Gaze’ retrospective at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 - ,,, The post ‘Geography of the Gaze’ retrospective at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2025 appeared first on Neil Young's Film Lounge.

414. Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le Vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) (#250) - Robert Bresson's *Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le Vent souffle où il veut*, with Brendan Hodges. At time of recording, it was ranked 250th on the li...

Amazon Doesn’t Own James Bond—Yet: Making Sense of the 007 Franchise. A guest post by Colin Burnett - Kristin here: Students and faculty in the film-studies division of the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are known fo...

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The 18th Annual Ring Family Wesleyan University Israeli Film Festival - I am pleased and excited to announce on behalf of the Center for Jewish Studies The Eighteenth Annual Ring Family Wesleyan University Israeli Film Festival...

A Film about Shellshock is Particularly Relevant Today - Last week, I had the opportunity to view the documentary film, *50 Broken Pieces*, directed by Micha Amitai, produced and co-edited by Aner Preminger. T...

Top 7 địa chỉ mua giày leo núi ở Hà Nội chính hãng uy tín được nhiều người yêu thích nhất - Bạn đang muốn tìm kiếm cho mình những mẫu giày leo núi trekking chính hãng, giá tốt tại Hà Nội? Bạn băn khoăn không biết cửa hàng bán giày trekking nào đ...

Hello Again - Hey, everybody! I can't imagine anyone is still checking this blog, but just in case someone is I feel like it's about time I announced here that I have ...

Waxing Gibbous: Luigi Cozzi's BLOOD ON MELIE'S MOON (2016) - Once the psychic fell out of her seance chair, and threw up green ectoplasm that turned into a book after white-masked magician zapped her through her cry...

Film School Rejects is Seeking New Ownership - After nearly two decades of operating independently, FSR is now for sale.

SEAN BAKER'S (AND MIKEY MADISON'S) ANORA - Way back in May it was that Patty, Emma and I drove to the SEE Film Multiplex in Bremerton to take in *I Saw the TV Glow*, and while there I took a ...

RBC EMERGING ARTIST Alicia K. Harris Premieres Short Film at TIFF - 2023-2025 RBC Emerging Artist, Alicia K. Harris recently premiered her latest short film, On a Sunday at Eleven, at the 2024 Toronto International Film F...

[Photos] New Stills Added for the Korean Drama "The Judge From Hell" (2024/10/02) - New stills added for the Korean drama 'The Judge from Hell'. Continue reading on HanCinema: https://www.hancinema.net/photos-new-stills-added-for-the-korea...

The Timorous Bellboys - Note: This article originally appeared on a site devoted to comparing two different versions of the same story. I decided to discontinue the site because t...

BAMBOO BOARD GAME REVIEW - Happiness, used to be loneliness and loneliness ruled my world. Then along came BAMBOO to allow me to appease spirts, decorate houses and generally make ...

Blu-ray Review: Claude Chabrol’s LA CEREMONIE - That a filmmaking giant like Claude Chabrol remains the most critically neglected member of the Cahiers du Cinema faction of the French New Wave in 2023 is...

Happy Birthday Elliott Gould - Happy Birthday to one of the all-time greats and one of the coolest of the cool Elliott Gould. From my 2019 New Beverly interview with Elliott Gould about ...

Summer 2023 Blu-ray/4K Ultra Consumer Guide - Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Angel Face (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Of all the amour ...

Bringing Down the Establishment: The Graduate and End of the Road: A Dialogue - The subsequent dialogue between the two films developed after much negotiation and cajoling. They were inclined to be hostile to the other. I tried to in...

Japanese star Dean Fujioka Produces and stars in the cult film ‘Pure Japanese’ - Japanese actor/singer/multi-lingual culture star Dean Fujioka produces and stars in a brand new cult film ‘Pure Japanese’ which is out now globally via

PERRY MASON: THE CASE OF THE SAUSALITO SUNRISE - Terence Towles Canote at *A Shroud of Thoughts* is hosting *The 8th Annual Favourite TV Show Episode Blogathon*. The popular blogathon is running from ...

Baruch Dayan HaEmet - I am heartbroken to tell you that Karen, my wife of 44 years, passed away this from pancreatic cancer. I and our two daughters, Leda and Aliza, were by her...

Maybe LOVE, ACTUALLY is…About British Sexual Insecurity? - by D.K. Latta Does the world need yet another Love, Actually hot-take? Sure. Like tinsel — can there ever be too much? I like Love, Actually and usually re...

National Silent Movie Day: Manhandled (1924) - Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, is National Silent Movie Day. New York City's beloved Film Forum is celebrating with a screening of Allan Dwan's 1924 silent...

Girls in Film (GIF) South Africa and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) : Join the Conversation - How to get your film funded - *Girls in Film (GIF) South Africa and National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) : Join the Conversation - How to get your film funded* GiF SOUTH AFRICA x ...

Manhunter - I would be lying if I did not confess that, despite my lifelong interest in true crime and dark subjects in general, I oftentimes get an instantaneou...

Best of 2019: The 13 Best Films of the Year - by Tony Dayoub It's Oscar Day! No predictions. Here, for your consideration, are my top films of 2019 followed by the winners of the respective polls I p...

1/16 Make My Day at the Wex - January 16, I’ll be giving a book talk at the Wexner Center in Columbus and introducing a screening of the 1986 movie River’s Edge. Read more…

You Only Live Once - One of Fritz Lang's better Hollywood movies, *You Only Live Once* (1937) is a cynical, angry crime saga. Drawing loosely on Bonnie and Clyde (with an emp...

Summer break - Hey everyone, For the first time since I started this blog in 2012, I will be taking a break! See you back on August 22nd. Best, Kinofrau

What to do if ICE shows up at your door? - ¿Qué hacer si ICE aparece en su puerta? - Believe it or not, when it comes to ICE agents, you have rights. Here's some advice should you have the misfortune of encountering them. - Lo creas o no, c...

Top 5 Movies Based on True Stories - Dragons, zombie walkers and mythical super heroes are all integral parts of successful modern films and TV shows. Despite the allure of these characters ...

All Inclusive – Fabien Onteniente - It’s sad to see actors of the calibre of Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko and Maiwenn on screen in a film with as little merit as All Inclusive – the l...

WINTER OF DISCONTENT: Puppet on a Chain - In an otherwise balanced article for *The Spectator* on the Wilma Montesi murder case*, Alexander Chancellor refers to Piero Piccioni as “a sleazy jazz ...

A Farewell to Ferdy - By Roderick Heath Long ago, in the dimly-remembered time of legend and chivalry that was 2006, my friend Marilyn Ferdinand asked me if I wanted to contribu...

The Virgin Suicides: “They Hadn’t Heard Us Calling” - [image: Current_29336id_295_large] Sofia Coppola adapts Jeffrey Eugenides’s acclaimed novel with an impressionistic style that evokes the private melanchol...

Exploring Captivity: Some films to look out for at this year's DOKer Festival - DOKer is taking place in April this year and the opening film will be shown this evening (April 13th). A festival which sees a refocus back on films fro...

Signing off - juvenilecinephile: I am writing this to just inform my readership and whatever following that I have that after the Oscars, Sunday, March 4th, 2018, I am...

Jean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA - I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless...

The 'Momentum' of Yamada Ryosuke: Idol, Actor, Entertainer - How is he? [Part 2/3] - *There are plenty of articles dealing with the question - what makes a good actor? In Part 2 of our Yamada Ryosuke 'Momentum' article, we ask the questio...

DVD Review: Tag - ★★★☆☆ Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) is on a school bus with her friends when an invisible force rips off the top of the bus, severing all but Mitsuko in half. Ru...

New Zvyagintsev movie 'Loveless' to compete for Oscar from Russia - Russian Oscar committee decided to suggest this movie for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Each of Zvyagintsev's movies is a big event in ...

The Doug Benson Movie Interruption: The Fate of the Furious - The next installment of Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, where Doug and friends (who in the past have included everyone from Jon Hamm to Sarah Silverman...

News: Song Kang-ho Drives into 10 Million Viewer Club for 3rd Time with A TAXI DRIVER - By Pierce Conran Jang Hoon's Gwangju drama A Taxi Driver drove past the 10 million viewer mark ($69 million) this morning (August 20), on its 19th day of r...

Episode #143: Commentary Track: Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards; 1963) - The cast for episode #143: Stuart Collier Tom Sutpen This episode was recorded June 25, 2017

Cinematography: All That Heaven Allows - *ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS* (1955) *Director:* Douglas Sirk *Cinematographer:* Russell Metty One of the most beautifully shot films, I believe, is Douglas ...

Quick Takes: A Matter of Time - Is there a longer cut of *A Matter of Time* (1976) hiding somewhere in a vault in Italy, waiting to be restored? The last film from the masterful Vincen...

At 30, Merchant-Ivory's "Maurice" Has Only Gained in Power - Maurice is the overlooked middle child in Merchant Ivory's trio of E.M. Forster adaptations, sandwiched between the lighthearted mainstream hit A Room With...

Lev Kulidzhanov - Prestuplenie i nakazanie AKA Crime and Punishment (1969) - [image: 29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152] Plot Synopsis This Russian adaptation of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment packs nearly every pivotal event fr...

2013--The Year in Review - 2013 was a fantastic year for movies. Its prime entry was the eventual winner of the Best Picture Oscar, British director Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave-...

SOMEDAY THIS WAR'S GONNA END - *A second review requested by Patton with thanks for contributing twice to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser.* How in the name of ...

The Best Wrestling Matches of 2016 (15-1) - Continuing from yesterday's post, read on as I count down my favorite wrestling matches of the year. 15. Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Naomichi Marufuji IWGP H...

Candy (1968) - *Ewa Aulin*, star of *Deadly Sweet* and *Death Laid an Egg*, plays the eponymous *Candy*; a naive, somewhat gormless, sexually accommodating teenager who...

The Razor's Edge - *Shenanigans*. Elliot Gould, Tom Skerritt, Donald Sutherland Those of you who think that movies are entirely a visual medium, and that the script is noth...

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