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Home » The Master

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Posted inBlogs

Does 70-millimeter film improve the moviegoing experience?

by Ian Simmons February 19, 2016August 18, 2021

The Music Box’s festival, devoted to the celluloid format, begins tonight.

Posted inBlogs

Deadpool leads in new GOP poll, plus more new reviews and notable screenings

by J.R. Jones February 19, 2016August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

WALL-E, An Affair to Remember, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week

by Brianna Wellen January 30, 2015August 18, 2021

Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.

Posted inBlogs

Pornography remains a major influence on Paul Thomas Anderson

by Ben Sachs January 19, 2015August 18, 2021

Retired adult-film performer Michelle Sinclair plays a small (but crucial) role in Anderson’s Thomas Pynchon adaptation.

Posted inFilm

Paul Thomas Anderson gives us a Pynchonian epic to get lost in

by Ben Sachs January 7, 2015August 18, 2021

You don’t just watch Inherent Vice, you wander around it.

Linda Reiter
Posted inArts & Culture

Colm Toíbín’s one-woman monologue gives the Madonna something new—a voice

by Zac Thompson November 26, 2014August 18, 2021

The Testament of Mary finds a mother of God filled with fury and heartbreak

Posted inBlogs

Escape From the Battle for the Conquest of the Dawn of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones July 18, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Someone ought to revive I’m Still Here alongside The Master

by Ben Sachs July 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Considering connections between two very different Joaquin Phoenix films

Posted inBlogs

Jude Law, Nicolas Cage, Scarlett Johansson, and the rest of this week’s screenings

by J.R. Jones April 11, 2014August 18, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Posted inBlogs

Weekly Top Five: The best of Philip Seymour Hoffman

by Drew Hunt February 9, 2014August 18, 2021

Highlights from the career of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman

Posted inBlogs

The recent revival of Baby the Rain Must Fall is a good excuse to rediscover Robert Mulligan

by Ben Sachs November 26, 2013August 19, 2021

Successful in his lifetime, the director of To Kill a Mockingbird and Summer of ’42 has been overlooked in recent decades.

Posted inBlogs

The Swimmer and other movies that ask “who is that?”

by Ben Sachs September 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Noting a few ways that filmmakers can defamiliarize the presence of actors

Posted inBlogs

This week in 70-millimeter: Sweating the small stuff

by Ben Sachs February 25, 2013August 19, 2021

When fleeting details in movies seem like the product of a grand design

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Sun 2/24: Oscar Experience: Chicago, 70mm Film Festival, and The Motherfucker With the Hat

by Janey Lee February 24, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Sunday, February 24, 2013.

Posted inBlogs

Getting big eyes for 70-millimeter film

by Ben Sachs February 18, 2013August 19, 2021

Are audiences more excited to watch a movie if they’re unfamiliar with the technology it employs?

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