Win a New Holiday Favorite on DVD! What's your favorite film set around or dealing with the upcoming holidays? Tell us and win a DVD of Felicidades, Lucho Bender's acclaimed debut feature set on a hot and humid Christmas Eve in Buenos Aires! <Read Article>Milos on Worldview Facets' Executive Director Milos Stehlik is a frequent contributor to Chicago Public Radio's global affairs program, Worldview. Head to their website for his latest film commentary. <Read Article>Explore the Archives Facets brings the world of cinema to your fingertips at the Facets Features Archives.
Revisit past CineChat events, preview clips from Facets Exclusive DVDs, and explore a wide variety of links from all over the web, ranging from the fun to the educational. <Read Article>
Film festival news and winners from around the world! Essential movie lists! Celebrity top ten favorites! Exclusive reviews and interviews! Facets' massive catalog category search! And much more! Just use the side buttons at left to navigate Facets Features' wealth of information! <Read Article>Meet the Critics Find cinema's greatest critics, past and present, at Facets Features, everyone from Vincent Canby, Pauline Kael, J. Hoberman and Andrew Sarris to Chicago locals Roger Ebert and Jonathan Rosenbaum. <Read Article>
Free Movies! Looking for free movies to watch on your computer? Facets has you covered!
Each week, Facets' Free Film Portal spotlights a different set of films, interviews and more available free online--everything from fine arts programs and documentaries to American and foreign-language classics and more, including our featured film, Jonas Mekas' 1971 short, Warhol and Maciunas. <Read Article>Celebrity Faves What do Werner Herzog, Studs Terkel, John Sayles, Michael Moore, Stephen Sondheim, Guy Maddin, Terry Jones and Camille Paglia all have in common?
They've all given lists of their top ten favorite films to Facets! <Read Article>
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On the Blog Wish a happy birthday to writer, director, actor and Facets Board of Directors member Harold Ramis at Facets' blog! <Read Article>
Only at Facets Features
The Glimpse Given Life: An Elegy for Bill Douglas "In 1991, when Bill Douglas died of cancer at age 54, Britain lost a filmmaker who should have become one of the most significant figures in modern cinema. Although it is not true to say that Douglas went unrecognised in his lifetime, there is no doubt that this Scotsman was an artist who, due both to a great lack of support from the British film bodies and his premature death, never fully realised his potential."
Senses of Cinema looks at the career of the late filmmaker, Bill Douglas, whose three most famous works are now available in The Bill Douglas Trilogy. <Read Article>Facets Faces Facets regularly hosts the world's greatest filmmakers, actors, critics, authors and more. Head to Facets Faces to check out a few who have visited us throughout our 30-year history. Pictured: Harold Ramis and Jake Gyllenhaal. <Read Article>
Visit our resource page of online clips concerning environmental issues to encourage further research, discussion and action. Get involved now! <Read Article>
Facets Exclusives! A classic interview with Werner Herzog conducted by Roger Ebert, expert thoughts on Dogme 95, and a Mayan archaeologist's take on Apocalypto are among the exclusives found only at Facets Features. <Read Article>
Lists, Recommendations & More
Hey Kid...Watch This! Does your kid have an eye for great cinema? Check out this list of must-see kids's films and help your child be the first on the block to watch them all! <Read Article>Great Films That Run Less than 80 minutes In a time crunch, but still want to enjoy a quality film? For a quick fix, check out Cinematical's list of seven great films under 80 minutes in length. <Read Article>The Best TV on DVD Dive in a world of perpetual television re-runs at Pop Matters with their new extensive feature, "The Best TV on DVD." <Read Article>The 50 DVDs Every Film Fan Should Own Pop Matters gathers the top 50 DVDs that every cinephile must own. Surprisingly, it's an interesting list. Discarding the usual suspects, they distill the selections into five categories - classics, films that changed filmmaking, the Seventies, artistic merit and auteurs. <Read Article>
Dreaming in Widescreen As a part of his career-long crusade to promote the preservation of film and the viewing of movies in their original format, director Martin Scorsese has compiled "Martin Scorsese's Top 10 Movies Best Viewed in Widescreen." <Read Article>The Top 50 Lost Films Can't find that lost classic anywhere? You're not alone.
Film Threat runs down a list of films that either vanished completely or lost key sequences--among the missing are the world’s first feature film, the first Technicolor feature, the first animated feature in both the silent and sound eras, the first werewolf movie, the first appearance by Dracula, the first kaiju film, and movies created by Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Sergei Eisenstein, Ed Wood, Oscar Micheaux and Martin Scorsese. <Read Article>The Sexiest on the Screen Who are the 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in film history?
Empire Magazine claims to have the answer. Head to their site to find the list...and tell them if their choices are hot or cold. <Read Article>
Which Couturiers Make the Cut on Screen? With Audrey Tautou and Shirley MacLaine both about to play Coco Chanel in movies and Jude Law signed up to play Halston, The Guardian looks at how fashion designers have been played in films. <Read Article>Wanna See Something Really Disturbing? What are the top ten most disturbing films of all time? Head to online magazine Alternative Reel to check out their selections. <Read Article>The 50 Greatest Music Films Ever From Wagner to Elvis, Cliff to Cobain, and Walker to Ryder, a multitude of musicians have stepped out of the studio and on to the big screen. Time Out London looks at the best unions of sound and vision. <Read Article>