Pauline Kael

On Sept. 3, 1189, Richard I, known as Richard the Lion-Hearted, was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. In 1939 Britain and...

Manny Farber, an influential film critic whose writings punctured the self-serious veil of art-house favorites Orson Welles and Francois Truffaut while celebrating the less-studied but more-entertaining work of Laurel & Hardy and Howard Hawks, has died....

Manny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence in two careers -- as a painter of abstract canvases and still-lifes and as a film critic admired for his canny, muscular writing and advocacy of such directors as Sam Fuller, Howard Hawks and...

The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....

This weekend, when Roger Ebert severs ties with the nationally syndicated movie review show that had been his broadcast pulpit for most of its 33 years, when jumpy Richard Roeper (who replaced lanky Gene Siskel in 2000) bids adieu to the sacred cultural...

How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken Essays Daniel Mendelsohn Harper: 456 pp., $26.95 HERE, among the flight of winged darts that pierce the critical essays of Daniel Mendelsohn: Quentin Tarantino is "incapable of saying anything about...

Chicago Sun-Times parent Sun-Times Media Group thinks it might be able to shave $10 million in 2009 expenses just by going private or deregistering its stock under federal securities laws. The lawyering, accounting and paperwork needed for Sarbanes-Oxley...

It didn't start out as a film, but "The Black List" ended up as one. In a way, it's fitting. Former New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell didn't start out as filmmaker, but he has made a documentary just the same. In "The Black List: Volume One,"...

Let us now grieve for the thumb. With the demise of the crit-chat show At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper (the last episode will air Aug. 17 on WMAR, Channel 2), the thumb goes on indefinite hiatus. We will no longer see "two thumbs up" or "two thumbs...

This story contains corrected material, published April 10, 2008. Charlton Heston, the successful but controversial movie actor whose hawklike features, air of authority and resonant bass voice made him the star of choice in historical epics for half a...

Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84....

ON a recent afternoon at the Warner Bros. lot, Clint Eastwood took a break from a long day in the editing bay and strolled over to a hushed screening room. There, his armed-and-dangerous past was waiting for him, and the filmmaker winced when he looked it...