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John Ford's two favorite actors were John Wayne and Henry Fonda. Essential to being a Ford favorite on screen, was being a Ford favorite...

I've recently begun to delve into the work of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. Believe it or not Iranian/Persian cinema has a long an...

Originally posted in December 2007 Shannon and I returned home late last night after spending the evening with some friends. I wasn't ...

Be warned. Watching Waiting for "Superman" is a pretty depressing experience. It left me discouraged about the future of our coun...

(Mild spoilers ahead.) In the twentieth chapter of John's Gospel we see the resurrected Jesus appearing to the disciples as they c...

Boyhood is Richard Linklater's magnum opus. There's so much I could say about this film, and I already know it's one I'...

Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955) is a film admired by many of the greats of contemporary cinema. For example Martin Scorses...

When I heard the news of Philip Seymour Hoffman's death on Sunday afternoon it hit me harder than I would have expected. The melancholy ...

The German filmmaker Werner Herzog has fashioned some of the most fascinatingly bizarre movies in history. From a documentary about a man wh...

Last night I finally had a chance to watch Malick's latest movie To the Wonder  (2012). If you're not a fan of Malick's frag...

In 2010 I reviewed the 1967 documentary Warrendale about a controversial home for "troubled" children in Canada. It launched the c...

Today we said farewell to a fabulous movie critic and a courageous human being. What struck me most about Roger Ebert as he battled debilita...

On Sunday Turner Classic Movies was running a series of Easter-themed movies. Just by accident I came across George Stevens' 1965 ep...

Here's a very cool visualization of Steadicam  shots from the first five feature films of American director Paul Thomas Anderson. The fi...

Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson, writers Bob Rafelson & Carole Eastman, 1970)

Words by Paul Schrader, music by Bernard Herrmann - from  Taxi Driver  (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976)

In 2010 I wrote a  review  of  Warrendale , the 1967 documentary by Allan King about the home for troubled children of the same name. In it...

Last night I sat down to watch A Night to Remember , the 1958 adaptation of Walter Lord's influential book reconstructing the Titanic...

Earlier this year Wendell Berry gave the loftily named Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He took...

John Ford biographer Scott Eyman manages to do to me what Ford did to many of those who knew him in real life: inspire conflicted feelings o...