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...

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...

It's hard to imagine HBO's disturbing documentary on survivors of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan appearing on an American TV network 10 or 20 years after the event. Filmmaker Steve Okazaki tried _ and failed _ to make it for the 50th anniversary.There's...

The tree is in the trash, the New Year's hangovers are fading and the leftover Perrier-Jouët is ready for that back shelf in the fridge, but before we begin anew, it's a good time to raise a glass and drink one last toast to the...