I was so sorry to hear about the death of Edward Herrmann this morning of brain cancer, and I send deep condolences to his family. He was 71 years old.Herrmann was a classically trained theater, film and television actor who won fans as the father...
There's a kind of 1970s American movie that's catnip to directors who grew up in the '80s and '90s while watching that sort of movie on cable TV and home video. It's visually and thematically dark, and very male. It has Rembrandt lighting and a...
Angelina Jolie sat in the director's chair for the first time with the 2011 feature “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” set in the contentious Bosnian War. “Unbroken,” her second feature, is epic in scope, spanning the life of...
This year, the staff at RogerEbert.com had the opportunity to speak to dozens of filmmakers, actors, critics and other people of interest. From Oscar winners like Woody Allen to Kevin Spacey to those in the Oscar race this year like David Oyelowo,...
It
was an unusually long life, 104 years until it ended today, but Luise Rainer
was best known for having won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Actress in
the late 1930s, for "The Great Ziegfeld"
in 1936 and "The Good Earth" in 1937.
She herself...
Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Doctor Simeon Faustus Abrams’s
House of Cinematic Sociopolitical Horrors, allow me to welcome you to our
humble haunted home. I’m your host, Doctor Abrams, and if this your first time
joining us,...
It began with
something Stanley Kubrick once said. With "2001: A Space Odyssey," he felt he owed the audience an experience. He wanted to use Cinerama to show
people what it was like to fly through space. This was ambitious for 1968, but
it worked....
1."Bill Cosby, Himself: Fame, Narcissism and Sexual Violence": Max S. Gordon of The New Civil Rights Movement tackles the scandal.“What is happening in our conversation about Bill Cosby isn’t just about his downfall, although that is an...
This year, female filmmakers like Australian newcomer
Jennifer Kent and Belgian director Hélène Cattet took us inside the tortured
headspaces of their films’ haunted protagonists. Their exceptional horror
movies—“The...
After months of controversy and now a limited release in arthouse theaters and through VOD, “The Interview” is nothing new, but it looks great. Its widescreen visuals are James Bond/"Mission: Impossible" chrome-plated sleekness. The...