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Girl Shy and the Birth of the Romantic Comedy
The Harold Lloyd comedy helped invent the modern rom-com, a frothy form of sentimental escapism.
The Harold Lloyd comedy helped invent the modern rom-com, a frothy form of sentimental escapism.
Matt writes: With the awards season in full swing, there are plentiful enticing films arriving both on streaming platforms and in theaters, including Raven Jackson's acclaimed debut feature, "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt."
An interview with co-writer/star/director Meg Ryan about her new rom-com, What Happens Later.
A new biography of Nora Ephron shows us the real-life events that were reflected in When Harry Met Sally…, Sleepless in Seattle, Hanging Up, and Heartburn and the private moments she kept secret, including her final illness.
A preview of the 2021 Nashville Film Festival, featuring reviews of "Invisible," "Hard Luck Love Song," "Porcupine," "The First Step," "Clara Sola" and "The Humans."
A celebration of Jane Campion's "In the Cut," as part of a video essay series about maligned masterpieces.
Where does a woman’s artistic integrity and autonomy begin and end when it comes to nudity on-screen?
Rosanna Arquette’s 2002 documentary “Searching for Debra Winger” is so much more salient now in light of the recent reckoning, if a little more difficult to watch.
Jessica Ritchey answers the Movie Love Questionnaire.
A recap of the screenings and events at the 2015 Middleburg Film Festival.
Scout Tafoya's series on overlooked or under appreciated films continues with screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's debut feature.
For serious cinema fans, romantic comedy have become dirty words in the post-Meg Ryan era. That's what makes the films of Seattle-based indie writer-director Lynn Shelton so refreshing: They're romantic and comedic without ever being formulaic.
Something nice happened to us while we were preparing the schedule for Ebertfest 2012, which plays April 25-29 at the Virginia Theater (above) in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. We'd invited Patton Oswalt to attend with his "Big Fan. He agreed and went one additional step: "I'd like to personally choose a film to show to the students, and discuss it."
APRIL 25, 2008--Every year I keep meaning to include "Joe vs. the Volcano" in Ebertfest, and every year something else squeezes it out, some film more urgently requiring our immediate attention, you see. The 1990 John Patrick Shanley film, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, was about a wage slave in a factory where dark clouds lower o'er the sky; he is told he has a Brain Cloud, with only five months to live. How this leaves him to become a candidate for human sacrifice in the South Seas follows a long and winding road, in a film that was a failure in every possible way except that I loved it.