Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami on “Sonita”
Few moviegoing experiences from last year rivaled the sheer emotion of taking two of my cousins to see Iranian filmmaker Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami’s Sundance prize-winning documentary, “Sonita,” at the Chicago […]
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Julia Sarah Stone on “Weirdos,” “Wet Bum”
While covering the Toronto International Film Festival this year for RogerEbert.com, I had the great privilege of chatting with some of the most revered filmmakers in world cinema: Herzog, Farhadi, […]
My Film Reviews and Interviews at RogerEbert.com
It was a decade ago this fall when I was officially hired to write film reviews for my college paper, The Columbia Chronicle. Little did I know that this job, […]
CIFF 2014: Six Films You Should See
Films have always been used as a vessel for escapist fantasy. The frivolous dilemmas of glamorous couples served as a comfort for Depression era-audiences just as superhero vehicles offer a […]
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