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Other than the obvious, like watching all that you can and sacrificing sleep, the best thing you can do at a film festival to get a hold of its essence is eavesdrop. Easy enough at every...

The Toronto International Film Festival (“TIFF”) starts tomorrow, Thursday, September 8th, 2022, and runs until Sunday, September 18th. On Sunday, September 11th, RogerEbert.com publisher Chaz Ebert will be presenting the TIFF Ebert Director Award to Academy...

I am inviting you to join me (only a few tickets are left) and help support FACETS at the 2022 Screen Gems Benefit on Wednesday, September 28th, at 6 pm at the Arts Club of Chicago, 201...

Though it concerns that most clamorous of subjects in modern American discourse—political division, and the partisan enmity that’s come to define it—the nonfiction feature “This Land” begins quietly: with a shot of a wheat field, blowing...

The Whole Earth Catalog, a broad-scope multi-disciplinarian magazine published between 1968 and 1972, opened with words from founder Stewart Brand: “We are as gods so we might as well get good at it.” This hubristic statement,...

With school back in session and many students enrolled in after school sports or other competitive programs, Peter and Ian Edlund’s “the Ref” feels like the right short film for this month, particularly for anyone involved...

Early in “The Whale,” the new film directed by Darren Aronofsky from a script by Samuel D. Hunter (adapting his stage play), Liz (Hong Chau), a nurse who voluntarily looks after her friend Charlie (Brendan Fraser)...

One thing I didn’t have on my lifetime cinematic bingo card—and I bet it is not on yours either—was Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson become the 21st century’s answer to Laurel and Hardy. And yet. With...

It’s that time of year again! We’ve already run pieces from Venice and Telluride, and our crew heads to Toronto this week for the Festival of Festivals, the world-famous Toronto International Film Festival. Almost back to...

Two political documentaries that recently premiered at the 2022 Telluride Film Festival were inadvertent thematic companions of sorts, charting the US’s involvement in two different wars from varying viewpoints. First, there’s the soul-piercing “Retrograde” by the...