Illuminating the Shadows: Film Criticism in Focus conference

Through panel discussions and conversations with leading film critics from across the US (including Graham School film instructors Michael Phillips, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Andrea Gronvall), and guest-curated screenings, Illuminating the Shadows: Film Criticism in Focus conference explores the state of film criticism at a potentially transformative moment. Technology, journalism, criticism, and cinephilia are always in [...]

Upstairs Downstairs, the sequel

PBS has a new, three-part “Upstairs Downstairs,” set in 1936, five fictional years after the old one ended, featuring the old house but a new family. THIRTY-FOUR years ago the door closed firmly and finally on 165 Eaton Place, the longtime home in London of the upper-crust Bellamy family and its retinue of servants. Before [...]

Roger Ebert’s TED Talk – Quotes from Roger Ebert TED Speech – Esquire

About a year ago, Chris Jones wrote a profile for Esquire on Roger Ebert, the film critic who has and continues to inspire people everywhere. Further evidence of this man’s power to captivate us, beyond the Twitter and his blog and his reviews and his new show: Reports of his speech this weekend that closed [...]

The Academy of Ebert from the Chicago Blog

While recovering from watching an Academy Awards broadcast helmed by a blasé multiplatform performance artist or two, we got to thinking about Chicago’s own cinematic rex. Or rather, he got us thinking, with a simple Tweet stating the obvious: “Is James Franco the first PhD candidate to host the Oscars?” Of course, we thought! This [...]

Hollywood’s Royal Stammer

There is nothing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences loves more than movies about people with physical or mental disabilities (or addictions). There have been a host of such Oscar-winning best-pictures, from The Lost Weekend (1945) to A Beautiful Mind (2001), and best-acting awards, from Jane Wyman in Johnny Belinda (1948) to Angelina [...]

Downton Abbey on PBS

Premiering January 9, 16, 23, and 30 on Masterpiece. A stately country house, a noble family, and a succession crisis are the backdrop for Downton Abbey, an Edwardian spellbinder by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park). The series that took the UK by storm, Downton Abbey stars Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, and a [...]

Richard Nixon: Zombie Hunter

Last spring, Seth Grahame-Smith scored a best seller with “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” in which the 16th president slashes away at legions of undead political enemies. Now, another president is enjoying some hot paranormal action, this time onscreen. According to leaked videos posted online, the coming video game release “Call of Duty: Black Ops” features [...]

Why We’re Teaching The Wire at Harvard

September 12, 2010 by William Julius Wilson and Anmol Chaddha Washington Post In our course on urban inequality at Harvard this semester, we want our students to understand the roots of the social conditions in America’s inner cities. To that end, we get some help from Bodie, Stringer Bell, Bubbles and others from HBO’s The [...]

Columbia University Professor Hamid Dabashi Speaks at Block

Iranian-born Shirin Neshat has played a pivotal role in discourse about identity and gender in her native country and the Islamic faith. Saturday, October 16, 2 pm matinee FREE Shirin Neshat: Films and Discussion Special event at Block Cinema: an afternoon of screenings of artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat’s best video work, including Turbulent and [...]

Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies

Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies, a weekly half-hour film review program, was announced today by its producers, Chaz and Roger Ebert. The program continues the 35-year-old run of a reviewing format first introduced by Gene Siskel and Ebert and later by Ebert and Richard Roeper. It will return to its birthplace, launching nationally on [...]

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