Women helped found the movie industry,” Barbara Bridges, founder of Denver Film’s Women+Film Festival, says. “They were the early filmmakers. They owned their studios. They developed many of the filmmaking techniques.” But when the historians sat down to pen the … Continue reading Barbara Bridges and Jill S. Tietjen on HOLLYWOOD: HER STORY
Steve James’ latest documentary, Life Itself, is a heartfelt look at one of the world’s most public and famous movie critics, Roger Ebert. A movie about a man who loved movies so much he practically lived inside them. James, whose … Continue reading LIFE ITSELF
I state unapologetic that this is a black film, and everyone’s invited, but I’m a black woman and I’m making a film about a black woman, the lens through which we are creating this world is black. And that doesn’t mean that … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 