Chris Feil

1 month ago | thedailybeast.com | Chris Feil

Forget “be gay, do crimes.” The latest moviegoing French import says “be gay, do sins.”Coming from provocateur Alain Guiraudie, is a must-see comedic thriller that skewers small town life and features a scene destined to give viewers equal shock and button-pushing delight. In Misericordia, Félix Kysyl stars as Jérémie, a gay man who returns to his childhood village for the funeral of the town baker, his former boss.

Dec 9, 2024 | vulture.com | Chris Feil |Fran Hoepfner

Mike Leigh is one of the most prolific living filmmakers, an acolyte of the human condition. With a body of work that ranges from micro-dramas to period-set opulence, Leigh makes films that never lack in acute observational detail. After years of struggling to find funding, his latest, Hard Truths, arrives to remind us that no one creates movies that enmesh tragedy and comedy quite as powerfully as he does. So obviously, now is the time to look back at his entire career.

Dec 6, 2024 | yahoo.com | Chris Feil

On its tenth anniversary, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is back in cinemas, showing on 70MM IMAX screens. Cue your sobbing Matthew McConaughey memes. As stooped in science as it was in raw emotion, the film starred Matthew McConaughey as a man who joins a space mission hoping to save humankind from extinction, but must leave behind his family with an uncertain fate that he will ever return.

Nov 1, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Chris Feil

What is an EGOT? Technically, it’s the term for someone who has won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. But more significantly, the acronym signifies an entertainer who has dominated all forms of entertainment, from stage and screen to music and television. It’s a major achievement to win even one of these prizes, but to win all of the top prizes in entertainment is to join an upper echelon of legends.

Oct 17, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Chris Feil

The rich history of the Academy Award for best actress is as fascinating as the history of the film industry itself. The list of winners tells a story about female representation onscreen, of progress moving (slowly) forward, and doors that were once shut being (gradually) opened. Best-leading-actress Oscars have gone to a range of complex female characters, performed by some of the greatest movie stars of all time—women who double as boundary pushers and helped shift the industry.