The Holdovers (2023)Director: Alexander PayneScreenwriter: David HemingsonStarring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston, Brady Hepner, Ian Dolley, Jim Kaplan, Michael Provost, Andrew Garmon, Naheem Garcia, Stephen Thorne, Gillian Vigman, Tate Donovan, Juanita Pearl Nearly two decades after their collaboration on Sideways, Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti reunite in The Holdovers, a character-driven … Read more

Few films have shaped the cultural imagination as quietly and deeply as Blade Runner. When it opened in 1982 it received mixed reviews and modest box office returns, yet over time it has seeped into the cultural subconscious. Ridley Scott’s proto-cyberpunk neo-noir—following Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter in 2019 assigned to track down … Read more

It’s difficult to name another film that has exerted such quiet, pervasive influence as Blade Runner. Although its initial release in 1982 brought mixed reviews and modest box-office returns, the film steadily infiltrated the cultural consciousness. Ridley Scott’s proto-cyberpunk neo-noir, starring Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard — a blade runner in 2019 charged with hunting … Read more

The Film Magazine to Remain Online for Six More Years Dearest readers, It is with enormous pride and heartfelt gratitude that I announce today, 22 January 2024, that The Film Magazine will remain online for an additional six years. Thanks to an extraordinary outpouring of support from readers, friends, and generous strangers, we have exceeded … Read more

Dearest Readers, It is with the utmost pride and honour that I write to inform you today, 22 January 2024, that The Film Magazine will remain online for at least six more years. This announcement comes after an extraordinary and deeply moving outpouring of support from our readers and friends, who answered our recent appeal … Read more

Dearest Readers, On Sunday 28 January 2024, The Film Magazine will cease to exist unless we secure immediate funding to cover essential renewal costs. Our zero-budget independent publication—home to more than 2.5 million freely accessible words on cinema—faces permanent removal from the internet if we cannot pay for hosting and security renewals. As of Sunday … Read more

Dearest Readers, On Sunday 28 January 2024, The Film Magazine faces permanent removal from the internet unless we secure immediate funding to cover essential renewal costs. We are a zero-budget, independent publication that has freely hosted more than 2.5 million words of writing about cinema — criticism, features, interviews, and analysis — and that archive … Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)Director: Billy WilderScreenwriters: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman Jr.Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson Sunset Boulevard is a landmark film from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Charles Brackett, Wilder and D. M. Marshman Jr., the movie has endured for decades due to … Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)Director: Billy WilderScreenwriters: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman JrStarring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson Released more than seven decades ago, Sunset Boulevard remains one of the most enduring and influential films of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder, Charles Brackett and D. … Read more

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1961 and ranked number 54 in the British Film Institute’s Sight & Sound poll of the greatest films ever made, The Apartment has remained a touchstone of American cinema for more than six decades. After Billy Wilder and screenwriter I.A.L. Diamond scored a controversial comic triumph … Read more