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Tag: film criticism
Posted inFilm
Writer A.S. Hamrah on the crisis in film criticism
The new essay collection The Earth Dies Streaming collects his work from 2002 to 2018.
Posted inArts & Culture
Dave Kehr returns with another indispensable collection of film criticism
University of Chicago Press issues Movies That Mattered, a follow-up to the longtime Reader staffer’s 2011 book When Movies Mattered.
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Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James discusses his life in the Chicago suburbs and his new film on Roger Ebert, Life Itself.
Posted inBlogs
A conversation with Brazilian film critic Franthiesco Ballerini (part two)
The conclusion of a far-ranging conversation with a film critic and historian based in Sao Paulo
Posted inBlogs
Further thoughts about Frances Ha and its supermodels
Noah Baumbach’s entertaining new comedy pays tribute to 60s French New Wave films, but to what end?
Posted inBlogs
An interview with Dan Sallitt, director of The Unspeakable Act
Talking with the filmmaker and former Reader contributor about his work
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Thumbs upward: Roger Ebert, 1942-2013
On the late movie critic and literary adventurer
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How Roger Ebert encouraged me
A personal reminiscence about the late Chicago film critic
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Is there an alternative to being mentally ill?
A short consideration of living with bipolar disorder
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Feeling ambivalent about Polisse . . . for now
Feeling ambivalent about the recent French drama Polisse. But how will I feel in three decades?
Posted inBlogs
Reader film criticism, in focus at last
The Reader debuts an alphabetical database of its huge long-review catalog