Melissa Silverstein has put together a list of films directed by women to counteract the BFI’s top 50 best of all time. It’s a man’s man world, baby. Only real men link to her piece, as Roger Ebert did on Twitter. The others? Nada. Zip. No one is covering this story except the few shriekers...
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As Vulture says: You Obsess About Movie Directors Because of Andrew Sarris Andrew Sarris and his seminal survey, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 were my earliest education about a world of movies that were mostly unknown to me before his guidance. The great man now joins The Pantheon he devised on a special pedestal of his own. Here’s a...
Lifting Prometheus up with a higher class of mixed reaction, Salon’s review gets a score of 80, IndieWire and EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum say B+ Roger Ebert gives it a perfect 4-star rating. Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn’t...
A little late to be a useful tipsheet for your office Cannes betting pool, but ScreenDaily.com has compiled a grid of their critics ranking each of the films in competition this year — and they were spot on. Let’s remember to look for this next year before we make predictions. Full chart after the cut. ...
With 21 reviews counted, Moonrise Kingdom has shot to the top of the Metacritic charts, with the highest score of any narrative film in English so far this year. Unless Moonrise gets hammered* with a few brutal reviews to shave points off that average, Wes Anderson’s golden valentine to childhood romance is the new #1 critic’s darling of 2012. [Now stands...
April 10, 1941 — 6 months after shooting wrapped on RKO’s production cloaked in secrecy — Edwin Schallert of The Los Angeles Daily Mirror breaks embargo on a sneak preview screening of Citizen Kane: Bound to create a stir wherever it is exhibited, “Citizen Kane,” the first picture to typify the varied talents of Orson Welles will intrigue...