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18 May 2013 3:55 PM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Having paved the way two years ago with his 15-hour cine-essay “The Story of Film” (and before that, the handsome coffee-table volume of the same name), film critic-cum-director Mark Cousins returns with a 100-minute companion piece focused entirely on the depiction of kids onscreen, a too-easy but still-captivating spinoff, unimaginatively entitled “A Story of Children and Film.” As specialty offerings go, this latest collage of film clips and personal footage shares the earlier project’s principal virtue — namely, its capacity to enrich casual moviegoers’ way of consuming cinema — as well as its harmless little idiosyncrasies.

In the hands of any other guide, such an eccentric offering would surely be relegated to the wee hours of public television, though Cousins’ films have found a home at the very same sprocket operas where the festival gadfly has become a regular fixture (this one premiered at Cannes). One part evangelist for the noble cause of humanist cinema, »

- Peter Debruge

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 363 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies, the Up docs and Decalogue) and of those 363, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

10 April 2013 4:28 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I've mentioned before how several years ago I created a list using Roger Ebert's Great Movies, Oscar Best Picture winners, IMDb's Top 250, etc. and began going through them doing my best to see as many of the films on these lists that I had not seen as I possibly could to up my film I.Q. Well, someone has gone through the exhaustive effort to take all of the films Roger Ebert wrote about in his three "Great Movies" books, all of which are compiled on his website and added them to a Letterbxd list and I've added that list below. I'm not positive every movie on his list is here, but by my count there are 362 different titles listed (more if you count the trilogies and Decalogue) and of those 362, I have personally seen 229 and have added an * next to those I've seen. Clearly I have some work to do, »

- Brad Brevet

23 January 2013 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts

Where, on earth, have more people been than any other place? Throughout all of human history, which piece of land has seen more footprints than anywhere else?

Mecca, probably, and paradoxically, since the non-Muslim majority of humankind is debarred from visiting. The religious duty of pilgrimage has enjoined Muslims to visit Mecca at least once in their life since the foundation of Islam and has become a major annual migration in the last 50 years. Roger Crosskey, London W10

I would say probably the sangam, or confluence, of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers at Prayag (Allahabad) in India. Not only is it the site of the Kumbh Mela, which millions attend, but it is visited every day by many thousands of religious pilgrims and people scattering cremation ashes. Pilgrims have been visiting it for thousands of years. »

19 January 2013 9:33 AM, PST | Cinelinx | See recent Cinelinx news »

Our daily countdown continues with part 18 out of 30 in our list of the 300 Greatest Films Ever Made. These are numbers 130-121.

130) Touch Of Evil (1958) Orsen Wells USA

129) My Neighbor Totoro (1988) Hayao Miyazaki Japan Animated

128) Le Samourai (1967) Jean-Pierre Melville France/ Italy

127) The Night Of The Hunter (1955) Charles Laughton USA

126) The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) Peter Jackson USA

125) Et: The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Steven Spielberg USA

124) It’S A Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capra USA

123) Aguirre: The Wrath Of God (1972) Werner Herzog Germany

122) Laura (1944) Otto Preminger USA

121) L’Avventura (1960) Michelangelo Antonioni France/ Italy

Numbers 120-111 coming next.

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5 items from 2013