Looking Back and Turning Inward: American Documentary Films of the Seventies WILLIAM ROTHMAN In the revised and expanded version of his invaluable history of nonfiction film, Richard Barsam sees the sixties as a high-water mark for the American...

The decade of the 1970s in film involved many significant...

Dayton filmmaker Andrew Copp's The Atrocity Circle makes its local premiere today at Page Manor Twin Cinemas. The violent revenge thriller was independently produced in Dayton. It made its world premiere at the 2005 Cinema Wasteland horror-movie convention in Cleveland. Copp, 33,...

JAKE COYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-06-2008 Films spoofing the 1970s just keep on coming By JAKE COYLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 03-06-2008, Thursday Section: BETTER LIVING Edtion: All Editions Platform shoes, leisure suits, fondue, 'fro picks....

Film critic Roger Ebert says he won't miss his annual film festival, despite the advice from some who said he should sit out this year.The 64-year-old's participation at his annual film festival Wednesday night was expected to be his first public appearance since a cancerous...

Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said."She was...