Great Movies
Chaz's Journal
By George: The Hollywood Stories of George Anthony
Chaz Ebert recommends the "By George" book series featuring George Anthony's conversations with Hollywood icons.
Chaz Ebert recommends the "By George" book series featuring George Anthony's conversations with Hollywood icons.
An in-depth preview on the classic noir films that will be playing at Chicago's Music Box Theater from Sept. 6-12.
Curtis Mayfield's "Claudine" soundtrack; Women in Noah Baumbach's films; Filming "12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer"; Films of Billy Wilder; Chatting with Nathan Silver.
Highlights of home entertainment options on Netflix, VOD, and Blu-ray/DVD, including classics from Woody Allen, new horror films, "Chef," "Obvious Child," "Hellion," and much more.
Writer Dan Callahan responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Released in the summer of 1985 to critical scorn and near-total commercial indifference, the sci-fi/horror hybrid "Lifeforce" has spent most of the following 28 years languishing in obscurity. If it was remembered at all, it was either because of its massive financial failure--which helped doom the futures of both its producing company and its director--or because of its status as one of the all-time favorite films of Mr. Skin, that beloved repository of on-screen nudity.
Recently I found myself, for the fifth time, among the denizens of a place that celebrates my favorite cinematic genre: the historic Castro Theatre in San Francisco, home of the Film Noir Foundation's 11th Annual Noir City Film Festival. The 27-film retrospective, which ran Jan. 25 to Feb. 3, featured newly restored prints, thanks to the Film Noir Foundation, as well as obscure films that may not have been seen in decades.
