Love Letters to the Movies Part 2: Love and Death ✦
With 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'Matinee,' two directors look back fondly and bittersweetly on a bygone era of moviegoing, when theaters brought communities together.
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The ’80s in 40: ‘Cutter’s Way’ (March 20, 1981)
Jeff Bridges and John Heard star in a haunting mystery about a dead cheerleader — and about what had happened to America in the years since the '60s drew to a close.
Give 'The Reveal' For the Holidays
Looking for a gift for the movie lover in your life? 'The Reveal' makes a perfect (virtual) stocking stuffer.
In Review: 'The Whale,' 'Empire of Light'
A pair of major directors show only flashes of greatness in disappointing efforts.
Love Letters to the Movies, Part 1: The Early Years
A three-part discussion of movies in love with the power of movies kicks off with a Buster Keaton classic and a charming fantasy film by Martin Scorsese.
2022: The year the Sight & Sound film poll blew up
Reflections on how an expanded voting pool radically reworked the canon. Plus, my own canon-affirming ballot.