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All posts by Sam Fragoso
With a Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
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Chaz Ebert writes about how much she misses Roger's weekly reviews. She...
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‘The Iceman’: A Bloody Portrait of a Father and a Killer
This review has been reworked and republished after originally appearing at Duke & the Movies during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.
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In the vein of something like Kill the Irishman, The Iceman is yet another cheap-trick conventional gan...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
The one and only Matt Singer was thinking about Project Runway while wa...
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Critic Interview: Dana Stevens Discusses Her Inspiration To Write, College at Berkley, and Roger Ebert
Below is my transcribed interview with Dana Stevens, Slate's residential film critic. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading her work, I urge you to do so. I could wax superlatives all day when it comes to Stevens, both as a writer and a human being. Alas,...
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Goodbye Ebertfest: It All Starts With The Golden Thumb
Note: Since the past few days have been a hectic mess, the following post discusses Saturday and Sunday at the 15th annual Ebertfest.
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Roger Ebert’s affinity for nuanced, daring, and compassionate cinema has perhaps never been more apparent than in this yea...
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With a Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Today we begin not with a link not to an article, but to Edward Douglas...
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Dispatch From Day Three at Ebertfest: Two Filmmakers, Two Tales of Addiction, and Two Invaluable Souls
Yesterday at Ebertfest was a day of twos.
It began with young filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen whose short film To Music, about a trio of musicians who work out their issues through art, screened before Paul Cox’s Vincent on Thursday. They were g...
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Ebertfest: A Discussion with To Music Filmmakers Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen
This morning Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen were kind enough to sit down and discuss their short film that played at Ebertfest yesterday, To Music. You can read my thoughts about the short here. Below is the transcribed discussion we had this morning.
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Dispatch From Ebertfest: A Sweet Short, In the Family, Van Gogh, Linklater, and the Eternal Voice of Roger
There’s heavy rain in Champaign on the second day of the 15th Annual Ebertfest, which begins with a line wrapping half around the block for Paul Cox’s 1987 documentary Vincent, chronicling the life and times of the post-impressionistic artist Vincent Van Gogh....
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Right now I'm listening to the LAMBcast, in which Joel Burman and compa...
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