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Feb 1, 2019 — A cast of dolls and a rhino are featured in this year’s award-winners, and Steven Soderbergh has previewed his new film.
Production Notes
Jan 31, 2019 — Trailblazer Elaine May altered the landscape of comedy and screenwriting, and in the three films she directed in the 1970s—A New Leaf (1971) , The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and Mikey and Nicky (1976)—she brought a fresh, often uncomfortable perspective to the portrayal of...
Jan 29, 2019 — In the Heat of the Night (1967) opens with an air of mystery, of outsiderness winding its way into the small town of Sparta, Mississippi, a place that right away seems heavy with a sense of what belongs and what...
In Theaters
Jan 24, 2019 — Repertory Picks Next Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will spotlight the high-energy high jinks of Harold Lloyd, as two of the silent comedian’s most beloved classics, The Freshman and Speedy, play back-to-back in the Bing Theater....
Jan 24, 2019 — Avant-garde cinema’s greatest champion—and one of its most accomplished practitioners—has died at ninety-six.
Jan 22, 2019 — The Forum will also launch new films by Dan Sallitt, Heinz Emigholz, Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell, and Thomas Heise.
Jan 22, 2019 — Elaine May is a writer and filmmaker and actor and improviser, but beyond that, she is an artist whose career-long quest for truth has driven her to create work that has taken many forms but always sought to cast aside...
Sneak Peeks
Jan 18, 2019 — Award-winning cinematographer John Bailey discusses the complications that Alfred Hitchcock faced trying to execute one of the most ambitious shots in his filmography.
In Theaters
Jan 17, 2019 — Repertory Picks Today, at 7 p.m., the Maxwell Theatre at Georgia’s Augusta University will play host to Whit Stillman’s The Last Days of Disco (1998), following afternoon screenings of the two other comedies, Metropolitan (1990) and Barcelona (1994), that make...
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Jan 11, 2019 — A big list from the American Society of Cinematographers, a series celebrating a slew of twentieth anniversaries, and two great series in New York.