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Steve James' "Life Itself" had made the Oscar shortlist, the list of 15 films that will now contend for five nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Chosen from 134 eligible submissions, the documentary branch of The Academy of...

So I tweeted a thing about Peter Pan recently, and much to my surprise, the tweet sort of took on a life of its own. Specifically, my tweet took issue with the casting of Rooney Mara as the Native American princess character Tiger Lily in "Pan," the...

This Thursday, December 4, 2014, the 9th edition of a unique, fascinating film program begins at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York (with a program selection also playing at the Burns Film Center starting Friday, December 5). The New...

In time for the holidays, we’re proud to present another excerpt from "Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era" by Peter Rainer, which Richard Schickel called “the finest collection of film...

You do not have to know a whole lot about Franz Kafka to understand the joke behind Peter Capaldi's Academy Award-winning short film "Franz Kafka's It's A Wonderful Life." The film explains everything right at the top so as to not come off as too...

The Producers Guild of America announced their nominees today and Steve James' "Life Itself" made the cut for the Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures, joining "The Green Prince," "Merchants of Doubt," "Particle...

For a certain group of rock musical fans, few films are MORE loved than Brian De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise." How could anyone not love a film this daring, this odd, and this memorable? For the 12th edition of his phenomenal video series, "The...

Until recently, Josephine Decker was known primarily as a droll and daring performer whose limber and lilting presence traced a sexual allure and off-kilter grace enlivening the works of Chicago independent filmmakers Joe Swanberg (“Uncle...

One of this awards season's hottest foreign films is Dominik Graf's "Beloved Sisters," a film that we've covered at the New York and Chicago Film Festivals and will open in New York on December 24th before expanding wider in 2015. Music Box Films...

When it comes to the secular ambassadors of Christmas, only Santa Claus beats Bing Crosby as being synonymous with the holiday—but just by a whisker or two.Of course, Jolly Old St. Nick basically really only has two claims to fame: Delivering...