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Review: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)
My review of Baz Luhrmann‘s EPiC (Elvis Presley in Concert) is now up at Ebert . As someone intimately familiar with the two original concert films – the restoration-resurrection knocked me out. Last summer I introduced Elvis: That’s the Way … Continue reading
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Tagged Baz Luhrmann, concert films, documentary, Elvis Presley, James Burton, reviews
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For Film Comment: On Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
For my fourth “Present Tense” column at Film Comment (archive here, thus far), I wrote about the WONDER that is Martin Scorsese’s new documentary (or should I say “documentary”?) about Bob Dylan’s 1975 “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour.
Posted in Movies, Music
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, concert films, documentary, Martin Scorsese, Present Tense, reviews
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Film Comment podcast: On Amazing Grace, Aretha, and concert films, in general
Had a great time on the latest Film Comment podcast, talking with Andrew Chan (web editor for the Criterion Collection), and Nicolas Rapold (Film Comment editor-in-chief) about Amazing Grace, the long-awaited concert film of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 gospel concert. (In … Continue reading
I Hate Lists, But … The Best Movies of 2016
The Roger Ebert contributors each submitted our own individual Top 10 Lists for 2016 – compiled here. As mentioned in the introduction, the NUMBER of titles – all total – that show up on this list is a testament to … Continue reading
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Tagged Asghar Farhadi, Chantal Akerman, Coen brothers, comedy, concert films, documentary, drama, England, Fireworks Wednesday, France, Golshifteh Farahani, Hediyeh Tehrani, horror, Iran, Isabelle Huppert, Jim Jarmusch, Jonathan Demme, Justin Timberlake, Matthias Schoenaerts, Mia Hansen-Løve, Paul Verhoeven, Richard Linklater, Sophia Takal, Taraneh Alidoosti, Tilda Swinton, William Carlos Williams, women directors
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A Hard Day’s Night (1964): Turning 50 and Coming to Theatres Again This Summer
A Hard Day’s Night, directed by Richard Lester, is turning 50 this year. To commemorate, the Criterion Collection is releasing the film in a gorgeous digital restoration with new sound mixes overseen by George Martin at Abbey Road Studios. There … Continue reading
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Tagged concert films, documentary, Elvis Presley, musicals, reviews, The Beatles
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Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You: A Concert for Kate McGarrigle (2012): Playing at the Film Forum
Lian Lunson’s new documentary, Sing Me the Songs That Say I Love You is both a filming of the tribute concert to Canadian singer/songwriter Kate McGarrigle, who died in 2010 at the age of 63, held at New York’s Town … Continue reading
Review: TFF 2012: Pushkin’s Real Good! The Russian Winter
This review originally appeared on Capital New York. Standing with his bandmates on an ice-encrusted platform somewhere in Siberia, as workers chip the ice off the train wheels, Grammy-nominated artist and producer John Forté uses the word “quixotic,” casually, in … Continue reading