Bilge Ebiri

1 week ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Alec Baldwin in Rust. At this particular moment, it won’t be possible to watch Rust without thinking of the deadly 2021 accident that took cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’s life and wounded director Joel Souza. Many of us probably would never have even heard of Rust had it not been for that tragedy, which led to months of lawsuits and media coverage and speculation over the fate of its star, Alec Baldwin. Nevertheless, the film is here, in limited theatrical release and available digitally.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Bilge Ebiri

11 hours agoMore than three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed on set, the Western movie Rust is now in a limited number of U.S. theaters and on demand. Alec Baldwin, who co-produced the movie, stars as the gun-toting outlaw Harland Rust in the fictional film set in the 1880s. He goes on the …

2 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Those who weren’t alive or particularly conscious during the initial release of George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels might not be able to appreciate what it felt like to live through the weird drama of those movies’ contentious reception.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Director Sepideh Farsi on the shock of losing Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian subject of her film, in an Israeli missile strike just weeks before its Cannes premiere. The film world was shocked yesterday to learn of the death of Fatma Hassona, a 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist and the subject of Sepideh Farsi’s documentary Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May.

3 weeks ago | vulture.com | Bilge Ebiri

Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation is filled with lovely images, but it’s all still so experiential, like we’re witnessing everything through the characters’ eyes. Joe Wright’s 2005 film of Pride & Prejudice has aged, but it’s done so beautifully. The movie, back in theaters for its 20th anniversary, is well worth a revisit, both for the ways in which it’s changed and for the ways in which it hasn’t.