Author Archives: Ted Hicks

About Ted Hicks

Iowa farm boy; have lived in NYC for 40 years; worked in motion picture labs, film/video distribution, subtitling, media-awards program; obsessive film-goer all my life.

More Roundtables – Directors and Producers

Posted on February 22, 2021 by Ted Hicks

As I mentioned in my previous post, the annual roundtable discussions curated by The Hollywood Reporter are conducted in this pandemic year via Zoom, rather than the participants being seated at an actual table.  In this post, we have directors … Continue reading →

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Cinematographers Roundtable + Quentin Tarantino & Roger Deakins and Christopher Nolan & Hoyte van Hoytema

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Ted Hicks

The annual roundtable discussions curated by The Hollywood Reporter are conducted in this pandemic year via Zoom, rather than the participants being seated at an actual table. There’s an intimacy that’s lost by this physical separation. It’s a different vibe, … Continue reading →

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Best Documentaries 2020 – Supplemental

Posted on February 9, 2021 by Ted Hicks

For those who would like to go a little deeper, here is a selection of interviews, discussions, reviews, and performance clips for the documentaries in the previous post. Running times for videos are indicated. ________________________________________________ The Bee Gees: How Can … Continue reading →

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What I Saw Last Year – Best Documentaries 2020

Posted on February 8, 2021 by Ted Hicks

I didn’t see nearly as many documentaries in 2020 as I have in previous years. When Film Forum and the IFC Center closed down last March (along with all other movie theaters in New York City), the venues where I’d … Continue reading →

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Feature Films 2020: Best of the Rest – Supplemental

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Ted Hicks

Here is a variety of supplemental materials for several of the titles in my previous post. ____________________________________________________ I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman, director & writer) _________________________________________________________ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe, director) ___________________________________________________ Martin Eden (Pietro … Continue reading →

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Feature Films 2020 – The Best of the Rest of What I Saw

Posted on January 24, 2021 by Ted Hicks

Here are the best of the rest of what I saw last year, 18 films in alphabetical order. As I said in my intro to last year’s “Best of the Rest” post, I don’t claim that all of these are … Continue reading →

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Best Feature Films 2020 – Supplemental

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Ted Hicks

For those of you interested in a closer look, here are supplementary materials for six of the films on my top-10 list. _____________________________________________________ The Assistant _____________________________________________________ First Cow _______________________________________________________ Never Rarely Sometimes Always ______________________________________________________ Nomadland ____________________________________________________ Sorry We Missed You … Continue reading →

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What I Saw Last Year – Best Feature Films 2020

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Ted Hicks

A year without blockbusters or movie theaters. 2020 was a radically different year for everything, not just movie-going, and 2021 still is. If someone had told me at the outset that theaters would be closed nearly a year later, I … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2021 – To Infinity and Beyond!

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Ted Hicks

2020 has felt like the longest 10 years of my life. I sure won’t miss it. The new year has got to be better, right? A vaccine that will hopefully bring the pandemic under control and get us back into … Continue reading →

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Off the TV Screen – A Brief Diversion + Posters

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Ted Hicks

While taking pictures of movies on a TV screen might seem like something one would do to pass the time while sequestered at home during a pandemic, these were taken sometime in 1978 for reasons that escape me now, though … Continue reading →

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