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Edoardo Ponti Celebrates the First NYC Retrospective Devoted to His Legendary Mother, Sophia Loren
It’s shocking but apparently true: Film at Lincoln Center is currently presenting the first-ever New York City retrospective of one of the greatest movie stars in history, Sophia Loren. Over the course of her seven-decade career, the native of Naples enjoyed success in both Italy and Hollywood, in both comedies and dramas, co-starring with the…
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Edoardo de Angelis’s ‘Comandante’ Tells an Epic Tale of WWII Humanism
Film at Lincoln Center’s 24th annual “Open Roads” series of new Italian films launched in spectacular fashion with Comandante/The War Machine, the incredible true story of an Italian submarine crew during the early years of World War II. What makes the epic stand out is its humanism: After the Cappellini sinks the ostensibly neutral Belgian freighter Kabalo, Italian captain…
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Lincoln Center’s 23rd ‘Open Roads’ Offers Another Welcome Look at Today’s Italian Cinema
Film at Lincoln Center is once again providing a welcome New York showcase for new Italian films with its 23rd annual “Open Roads” series, running May 30 to June 6, 2024. Thirteen films will be screened, and I’ve had the chance to preview four of them. The opening-night attraction, Comandante (aka The War Machine), tells…
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Remembering Seven-Time Oscar Nominee Norman Jewison
Seven-time Oscar nominee Norman Jewison died on January 20 at the age of 97. His range was remarkable, from romantic comedies to socially conscious dramas, splashy musicals to classy caper films. Dramas like The Cincinnati Kid and In the Heat of the Night have only gotten better with age, and his most beloved film, Moonstruck, has become a modern…
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New York and the Movies—An Enduring Combination
In the pantheon of movie greats, there’s one star that has outlasted all others, lending spectacular support to everyone from Charlie Chaplin and Gene Kelly to Barbra Streisand and Robert De Niro. That star is New York City, the endlessly photogenic locale of countless movies since the silent era. The list of New York-set films…
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A Film from 1961 Leads My 2023 Ten Best List
I said it back in March, and I’ll say it again: The best film of 2023 was made in 1961. It’s baffling that Dino Risi’s masterly Una Vita Difficile was never released in America until this year, but there you go. (More details below.) That’s not to say there weren’t many exceptional new films this year. My…
Kevin Lally on Film
Interviews and more from the former executive editor of Film Journal International and Boxoffice Pro
- Film Appreciation
- Filmmakers
- Altman, Robert
- Baker, Sean
- Bass, Saul
- Benton, Robert
- Bigelow, Kathryn
- Coen, Joel and Ethan
- Costa-Gavras, Constantin
- Davies, Terence
- de Angelis, Edoardo
- Docter, Pete
- Duvall, Robert
- Eastwood, Clint
- Foley, James
- Freeman, Morgan
- Gondry, Michel
- Gordon, Emily V.
- Henson, Jim
- Ivory, James
- Jewison, Norman
- Johnson, Rian
- Jones, Chuck
- Kelly, Gene
- Lee, Spike
- Lemmon, Jack
- Lester, Richard
- Lord, Peter
- Lumet, Sidney
- Lynch, David
- Maddin, Guy
- Malle, Louis
- Martin, Steve
- Nair, Mira
- Nanjiani, Kumail
- Oz, Frank
- Park, Nick
- Polanski, Roman
- Ponti, Edoardo
- Reiner, Carl
- Resnais, Alain
- Russell, Ken
- Rydell, Mark
- Schoonmaker, Thelma
- Schrader, Paul
- Showalter, Michael
- Shyamalan, M. Night
- Stanton, Andrew
- Ullmann, Liv
- Van Sant, Gus
- Wajda, Andrzej
- Waters, John
- Wilder, Billy
- Woo, John
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