Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, the subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run the program Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork; it teaches the students elegance, manners, good … Continue reading DANCING IN JAFFA
There’s so many more female directors than when I started. That’s encouraging. Maybe it’s because it’s such an all-encompassing job, and if you have a family, it’s harder to do. But there are female surgeons. And there’s plenty of women … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 14, 1971
From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don’t pay that much attention, and of course … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 14, 1952
The object is to try to get the system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I’m afraid. —George Lucas Continue reading Born On This Day — May 14, 1944
Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything’s okay. I don’t make those kinds of movies. —David Fincher Continue reading Born On This Day — May 10, 1962
1959: Fourteen years after the war ended and five years before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show, the cinema started to go democratic. Cameras were smaller, weighed less, and were cheaper, thereby allowing independent directors to make movies they wanted to … Continue reading Film/STILL 1959
On seeing Le voyage en Ballon: It’s the first film I remember. It’s the film I like to re-watch the best. When you’re young, you’re very receptive to all the stuff you see, the emotions. And then you try all the … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 8, 1963
We’re the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered. And we talked about civil rights when it wasn’t really popular. This academy—this group of people—gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 6, 1961
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