Terrence Malick's dissection of men at war rang as pretentious to some in 1998, and 13 years later, "The Tree of Life" kept that same boring chorus going. For others, there's a lot to unpack in his work, and...
The Stanley Kubrick exhibition at LACMA opened on November 1 and will run through June 30. It has already toured through Europe in cities such as Frankfurt, Paris and Amsterdam.
The work of Douglas Trumbull on the legacy of visual effects in film is unmistakable, going all the way back to his work on "2001: A Space Odyssey." He had a hand in such groundbreaking films as "Close ...
There's a lot of talk about lists lately. Just the other day we chewed on Roger Ebert's inclusion of Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" in his personal top 10 films of all time as part of the 2012 Sight &a...
I always found that my taste tended to line up quite a bit with Roger Ebert's, particularly when it came to our favorite movies of all time. His list of 10 best ever overlapped with mine in three instances, while othe...
LONDON (AP) — Stuart Freeborn, a pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" films, has died. He was 98.
LucasFilm confirmed Wednesday that Freeborn...
The Academy has announced that it will present Douglas Trumbull with the Gordon E. Sawyer Award at the Scientific and Technical Awards presentation on Saturday, February 11, at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The award...
Well, it had a good run. For half a century, Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane" reigned supreme as the default candidate for the Greatest Film of All Time. That, in part, was thanks to its routine dominance of au...
I think I manage to come across as fairly articulate on the podcast, which is a miracle since I frequently feel like I'm a marble-mouthed goofball. For example, you'd think I would be able to say the name of my ...
We would probably be a bit remiss around these parts if we didn't bring up two summer screening series the Academy is launching this year: "Oscars Outdoors" and "The Last 70mm Film Festival."
The ...
