Repertory Corner: August in L.A.
In Repertory Corner, we program a slate of screenings for August in Los Angeles.
ONE-OFFS
Carson Cook
- May 28
The Films of Tom Cruise
As Top Gun: Maverick soars into theaters, a look back at the career of its enigmatic star.
Carson Cook
- May 16
Home Video Review: Eastern Promises on 4K UHD
Kino Lorber's new 4K transfer of David Cronenberg's film looks and sounds superb.
Carson Cook
- Mar 27
Home Video Review: Touch of Evil on 4K UHD
All three versions of Orson Welles' 1958 thriller hit 4K UHD for the first time, courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 9
50 Most Anticipated Films of 2022
Our 50 most anticipated films of 2022.
Carson Cook
- Oct 1, 2021
The French Connection at 50: William Friedkin and the Undermining of the Lawman
What to make of Popeye Doyle in 2021? The answer may be found in another Friedkin film.
Jonny Diaz
- Jun 7, 2021
The Cinema of Sondheim
A look back at the musical theatre and subsequent movie musical legend.
Rough Cut Staff
- Feb 28, 2021
The Acting Draft, Part 1
We draft the best performances of the last 5 years.
Jonny Diaz
- Feb 28, 2021
The Second Annual Rough Cut Awards
The Rough Cut Staff's picks for the best films of 2020.
Rough Cut Staff
- May 9, 2020
Interview: Writer-Director Sabrina Doyle (Lorelei)
Writer-director Sabrina Doyle discusses her Tribeca-bound feature debut, Lorelei.
Rough Cut Staff
- Apr 24, 2020
Boston Accents by Non-Bostonians: A Ranking
An ode to the out-of-towners who try to sound like the townies.
Carson Cook
- Apr 19, 2020
On Cinematic Comfort Food and Intellectual Pursuits
I had big plans to finally wrestle with the Dekalog. I've rewatched four Mission: Impossibles and two Spider-Mans instead.
Rough Cut Staff
- Apr 1, 2020
COVID-19 and the Theatrical Industry: An Accelerant, Not a World-Changer
COVID-19 won’t fundamentally remake the theatrical exhibition or the film industry – but only because that was already happening.
Rough Cut Staff
- Mar 22, 2020
'Just Watch' Movies: A Categorization
You know when someone asks you what movie they should watch, and you recommend one, and they say “oh, what’s that about?”
Rough Cut Staff
- Mar 11, 2020
How the Trump Administration Has Impacted Best Picture - And What That Means for 2020
It’s high time Hollywood accepts that film and politics have always walked hand-in-hand, and that's not going to change.
Rough Cut Staff
- Mar 3, 2020
Best of 2019: The First Annual Rough Cut Awards
As the dust settled on this past awards season, our team here at Rough Cut came together to crown our own favorites.
Rough Cut Staff
- Feb 25, 2020
This Is How They Lose: The Gambler's Tragedy
There are movies about gambling, and there are movies about gamblers.
Rough Cut Staff
- Feb 21, 2020
Sundance Wrap-Up: The Invisible Hand of Politics
How do we – how does film – acknowledge and even interact with the world around us without letting the moment subsume the stories we tell?
Carson Cook
- Feb 6, 2020
Want to Fix the Oscars’ Acting Categories? Look at the Screenplays.
Male/Female? Lead/Supporting? Why not Original/Pre-Existing?
Sara D'Amico
- Jan 21, 2020
They Call Him Oscar: An Elegy
A strange ritual:
Awards with a gold man.
As if men were gold.
Or worthy of it.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 20, 2020
The Canard of Objectivity: Why 'Quality over Diversity' Makes No Sense
It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3.
Jonny Diaz
- Jan 16, 2020
2019 Top 10: Empathy for the Devil
Jonny Diaz on why he watches sad movies.
Carson Cook
- Jan 15, 2020
The 10 Best Films of 2019 (Plus a Few More)
Carson Cook can't follow the instructions and lists far more than 10 films.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 14, 2020
2019 Top 10: How Movies Helped Me Connect
Zach D'Amico on the shared cinematic experience and the power of we.
Jonny Diaz
- Jan 13, 2020
The Top 20 Performers of 2019
The twenty performers who dominated the screen in multiple 2019 films.
Carson Cook
- Jan 9, 2020
The Best Things About 2019's Bad Movies
Even when a work is somehow less than the sum of its parts, those parts are still worth saluting.
Sara D'Amico
- Jan 9, 2020
Top 10 Movie Scen-quences of the 2019
Movies are a sequence of scenes that tell a story.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 8, 2020
The 50 Best Pieces of Movies in 2019: Pt. 2
The top 25 bits and pieces of 2019 movies.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 6, 2020
The 50 Best Pieces of Movies in 2019: Pt. 1
Zach D'Amico's favorite "pieces" of movies.
Jonny Diaz
- Jan 6, 2020
2019 At the Movies: Crossing the Class Divide
In 2019, long-simmering global tensions around income inequality and class anxieties boiled over onto cinema screens.
Sara D'Amico
- Jan 5, 2020
2019 At the Movies: A Celebration of Women
Women are still underrepresented in regards to awards, but that doesn't mean their presence wasn't felt across the filmic landscape.
Rough Cut Staff
- Jan 4, 2020
2019 At the Movies: Laying down the Grudge
2019 was the year of catharsis put to film.
Carson Cook
- Dec 24, 2019
A Disturbance in the Force: The Highs and Lows of the Star Wars Saga
A look back at the peaks and valleys of the world's most famous space opera.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 23, 2019
Make the Case: Technical Wizardry
The most underrated feats of audio and visual mastery we experienced this year.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 22, 2019
Matt Damon's Identity Crisis
Matt Damon's His obsession with the concept of self hasn’t waned over time, it’s merely metamorphosed.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 10, 2019
Rough Cut's Best Rewatches of 2019
What makes a movie worth returning to over and over?
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 8, 2019
Crossing the Line: Power Dynamics in Fall Films
In the long arc of time, history is written by the victors. But in the day-to-day lives of the rest of us? Lines are drawn by the powerful.
Rough Cut Staff
- Dec 7, 2019
From Victims to Villains: Reinvention in America
Second lives offer the chance to reset, to reinvent. The chance to find the successes that eluded us in our first go-round.
Carson Cook
- Dec 1, 2019
For Your (Re)Consideration: Casualties of War
A brutally unflinching look at the savagery that men can perpetrate when given the opportunity, but also a moving portrait of decency.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 30, 2019
Throwback Review: Private Life is a Sympathetic Portrait of a Lost Couple
A film that has a distinct sense of its characters’ selves, even when they do not.
Carson Cook
- Nov 28, 2019
The Films of Martin Scorsese: A Retrospective
To celebrate this week’s release of The Irishman, we take a look back at the films of Martin Scorsese, renowned auteur and fanboy troll.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 21, 2019
The World's End: Entering The Matrix with a Dose of Nostalgia
For Wright, the most potent form of The Matrix's complacency-inducing blue pill is nostalgia.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 16, 2019
Shot/Chaser: Returning to Hitchcock's Psycho
If you look beneath the surface, Waves and Psycho share a DNA making them uniquely thrilling and one-of-a-kind achievements in filmmaking.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 11, 2019
The Inaugural Rough Cut Draft Chat: Bankability
Is there such thing as a sure thing in Hollywood anymore? We've endeavored to find out.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 10, 2019
Make the Case: Acting
These are the 2019 performers who made us laugh, cry, and stand up and cheer, but who probably won't be making speeches come February.
Sara D'Amico
- Nov 6, 2019
Shot/Chaser: Revisiting Ingmar Bergman's Emotionally Raw Scenes from a Marriage
Scenes from a Marriage provides a uniquely raw look into the psyche of two individuals who have dedicated themselves to each other.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 3, 2019
Heists, Aliens, and A Little Bit of Love: The 20 Best Movies of the Decade
The 20 most powerful experiences we had in film this decade.
Rough Cut Staff
- Nov 3, 2019
First Cut: November Oscar Predictions
Our initial predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards.