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Television has become an increasingly populated home for auteurs. Likely inspired by the success of “Twin Peaks: The Return” and stymied by the death of the mid-budget feature film, auteurs keep coming to mini-series TV, including...

If John Gannon hadn’t thought fast, leaned over, and thrown the car into reverse as the train was fast approaching, filmmaker James Gannon wouldn’t be here today. Sometimes we’re blessed with lightning fast, life-saving instincts. Sometimes...

Joe Berlinger has turned his filmmaking career into a docuseries factory for Netflix. The director of the excellent “Brother’s Keeper” and incredible “Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills” is one of the pioneers...

As we embark on a new year, let us pause to reflect on some of the movie legends we lost in 2022, starting with Sidney Poitier and then proceeding in alphabetical order with the rest. You can find...

“Movies are a machine that generates Empathy”—Roger Ebert Roger loved movies for many reasons, but he said that one of the noblest things movies can do for us is inspire empathy by putting us in the...

The Unloved is silently dedicated in perpetual honor of Edgar G. Ulmer, the golden age director whom Hollywood showed the shabbiest treatment. Blacklisted from the majors for loving the wrong woman, he spent his life in...

Those of us of a certain age grew up with Barbara Walters. I don’t just mean we watched her from the time we were little girls to the time we raised children of our own. I...

The first new streaming series of the year is one that plays with the way people watch shows on streaming giants like Netflix. With all eight episodes of “Kaleidoscope” available at once, why not have some...

In Marc Forster’s genial, earnest yet unremarkable dramedy “A Man Called Otto,” the titular character Otto can’t pick his daily battles even if his life depended on it. Living in an unfussy suburban neighborhood of identical...

In a 2015 interview with the Paris Review, editor Gordon Lish was asked many questions about his controversial working relationship with Raymond Carver, one of the most famous in the editor-writer-relationship canon. Lish used a heavy...