Terence Davies on “Sunset Song” I was brought up on American music. My first film was “Singin’ in the Rain” at seven. I fell in love with musicals, I love musicals. So, that was always theirs as part of one’s psyche. And they used to say on the contrary, Britain was a land without music, … Read more
Werner Herzog on “Into the Inferno” That’s a very good and unexpected example you have brought up. It has always been my aim to find that sort of passion and figure out how to transform it into cinema. Treadwell’s footage was almost like a diary, and he had always dreamt of becoming the movie star … Read more
In addition to overseeing and editing the work of others, for the past eight years, RogerEbert.com Senior Editor Nick Allen has been one of our site’s most prolific and invaluable writers. He began by writing dispatches at the Sundance Film Festival in 2015 before going on to cover other major festivals such as SXSW, Telluride, … Read more
Last month, RogerEbert.com Senior Editor Nick Allen moderated a panel with the directors of some of the most anticipated international films of the year, and we wanted to share it with you. Watch Allen’s conversation with İlker Çatak (“The Teachers’ Lounge”), Amr Gamal (“The Burdened”), Rodrigo Moreno (“The Delinquents”), Lina Soualem (“Bye Bye Tiberias”), and Anh Hung … Read more
The sound design of Saw X — particularly the eye vacuum scene — is so intense that one editor had the police sent over. As Saw X proves to be a surprising critical hit – it currently holds an 87% on Rotten Tomatoes, marking the first “fresh” Saw ever – one has to imagine that … Read more
We are pleased to welcome Robert Daniels as the new Associate Editor of RogerEbert.com. Robert is a Chicago-based film critic with freelance bylines at The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, IndieWire, The Playlist, and The Criterion Collection. He will be joining our editorial staff comprised of Managing Editor Brian Tallerico, Senior Editor Nick Allen, Editor-at-Large Matt Zoller Seitz, Contributing … Read more