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When they started production a couple years ago, Hulu never could have guessed how relevant their adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” would feel when it premiered in April 2017. There’s a scene in the...

Oh My Goodness! The 19th Roger Ebert’s Film Festival (Ebertfest) was awesome! The theme was Empathy, Kindness, Compassion and Forgiveness, and we welcomed filmmakers whose films, in one way or another, exemplified those principles, or in some...

1.”Ebertfest Honorees Share Memories of Roger Ebert”: Essential quotes compiled by Variety’s Bob Verini. “Townsend, who’ll moderate Burnett’s Q&A, praises Ebert as ‘a champion of new voices’ who ‘always had an open mind, saying, ‘OK, I’m learning something...

When Eugenio Derbez’s 2013 family comedy “Instructions Not Included” became the highest-grossing Spanish-language film in the United States, that was but a new beginning for the superstar actor/writer/director/producer. Having previously displayed his talents for performance and...

Ebertfest 2017 included two movies that were shown on 35mm film—opening night selection “Hair” and Thursday afternoon’s “Hysteria.” Ebert Fellow Jason Yue was in the Virginia Theater’s projection booth to check out the technology and process...

Milos Forman’s “Hair” was a fitting choice to open the 19th installment of Ebertfest, with its topical recurring themes of tolerance, pluralism and sexuality. On Sunday, the festival closed on an appropriately wistful note with a...

Contrary to the ordinary, there is no festival fatigue at Ebertfest. Even as day four settled in at the Virginia theater, audiences were characteristically responsive and engaged. They seemed to be enlivened by the slate of...

Day three included two of Ebertfest’s most anticipated events: the return of fest regulars The Alloy Orchestra presenting their latest live musical accompaniment to a silent film classic and the arrival of the woman who is...

A great film festival offers movie lovers a wide array of offerings on its opening weekend. Fests like Sundance and Toronto are downright overwhelming in just their first 72 hours, presenting dozens of films from around...

Dubbed “Ambassadors of Compassion” by Chaz Ebert, nine Ebert Fellows graced the first panel of Ebertfest 2017, bringing a human face to the young generation tasked with spreading empathy at a time where there is very...