It meant an awful lot to me,” Welsh writer/director Sara Sugarman says. “I mean, I wrote all my little films, and Annie Mary, sitting in Wendy’s kitchen, listening to her and her friends talk.” Wendy is Wendy Phillips, a cleaning lady … Continue reading VERY ANNIE MARY
Last Friday, KDVR (Fox 31/Channel 2 in the Denver-metro area) wanted to know what I thought about movie theaters reopening. I had a few thoughts: “Michael Casey is a well-known local film critic.” Flattery will get you everywhere. I think … Continue reading KDVR: How will movie theaters recover from the pandemic?
Rafiki really encapsulates the spirit of the Women Make Film series,” TCM host Alicia Malone says. “It’s rule-breaking, it’s risk-taking, it’s highly entertaining to watch.” And, as the series suggests, it’s a movie made by a woman, Wanuri Kahiu, an award-winning … Continue reading RAFIKI
For more than 30 years, Kirsten Johnson has seen the world from behind the camera. “[It’s] taught me to be quiet,” she says. “To wait for things. And listen and look at people’s bodies and the way they move as … Continue reading CAMERAPERSON
Filmmaking is an act of optimism. Setting ideas to paper; convincing others to come and join the party; devoting time, money, blood, sweat, and tears to capture those images on celluloid; believing those images can carry meaning throughout the world; … Continue reading THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Today, Netflix releases the latest from writer/director Ramin Bahrani, The White Tiger, an adaptation of Indian author Aravind Adiga’s debut novel about the rise of Balram (Adarsh Gourav) from a coal breaker’s son to driven entrepreneur. Told in flashback and at … Continue reading Ramin Bahrani
Many moons ago (okay, four years), the Denver Film Center unveiled a new program conceived by then-technical director, Randall Harper: Classics in Context. All the movies featured in the series would be familiar to cineastes, but Harper’s goal was to … Continue reading Classics in Context: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Plunging temperatures and snow have returned to Colorado’s Front Range. As I donned my heavy coat to walk to the library today, images from Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight flashed through my mind. Now there was a movie with some good coats. Particularly … Continue reading Courtney Hoffman and Rosemary Brandenburg on THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Derek Cianfrance is having a year. His six-part adaptation of Wally Lamb’s novel, I Know This Much is True, won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in Limited Series or Movie (Mark Ruffalo), and his original story for Sound of Metal is one … Continue reading Interview with Derek Cianfrance
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