Michael Cimino’s gift to cinema
Heaven’s Gate is a 200-minute-plus mess of beautiful incoherences and stupefying contradictions
Film
Sunday
Thursday
Why are there no paintings in Star Wars?
They are not talked about, reflected upon or even alluded to
The importance of going to the movies
Something happens when you watch a movie alone together, laughing, crying and fidgeting in unison
Saturday
Why were 2000s movies so hypersexual?
Are we decent yet?
Tuesday
The Christian movie finally finds its niche
These films might not reach the Academy Awards, but they have an adoring fan base
Monday
Mary Blair, doyenne of Disneyland
To preserve an outsider artist such as her, you have to preserve the messy reality of life
Thursday
Knock at the Cabin is a better-than-average Shyamalan film
It packs an emotional wallop, though its religious motifs leave something to be desired
Tuesday
Turn Every Page is an engaging film about how news used to work
It chronicles the collaboration between our nation’s finest historian and his editor
Wednesday
Quentin Tarantino’s iconoclastic obsessions
How can an established artist, especially one this famous, pivot to criticism?
The death of the movie star
Hollywood used to run on talent. Today, intellectual property is king
Friday
The unorthodox life and fall of Alec Baldwin
A wild career culminates in a horrible disaster
Friday
Confessions of a Sight and Sound voter
Reckoning with the subjectivity of ranking the greatest films ever
Tuesday
An ingloriously dumb adaptation
Almost Famous fails to make the jump from screen to stage
Cleopatra still dazzles sixty years later
The film is, above all, an Elizabeth Taylor-worshipping vehicle
Friday
Remembering Jean-Luc Godard
Godard’s work remains a vibrant pageant of cinematic possibilities
Monday
The return of Lindsay Lohan
Falling for Christmas looks bound to be tragicomic and artless pulp, but so what?
Tuesday
Happy birthday Martin Scorsese, the Don of movies
He has given the art of cinema more than virtually any other filmmaker
Sunday
At eighty, Casablanca embodies Hollywood high style
The movie still resonates with viewers even to this day
Thursday
Angela Lansbury was so much more than Murder, She Wrote
Her passing demands a reflection on a stunning career
Tuesday
Bullet Train is an unabashedly manly palette cleanser
An action movie can be good or woke, but not both
