You might not believe it, but the Academy Awards mean a lot. Sure, it’s nice to be nominated, but winning that 8.5-pound golden statue—designed by the great MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and, allegedly, modeled after a nude sketch of … Continue reading FLOW and INCIDENT: Two First-Time Nominees to Root for at the 2025 Oscars
Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year. My top 10 is relatively familiar at this point, but the sheer breadth … Continue reading SENSES OF CINEMA: 2023 World Cinema Poll
I love lists. Lists bring order to my day: what to do, what to watch, what to read, what to listen to. Lists provide context to larger themes and suss out tiny commonalities. The lists I author, be they for … Continue reading 2023: Now and Then
Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90% of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything produced between the advent of moving images in 1894 to the proliferation of synchronized sound in 1929 … Continue reading DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Michael J. Cinema 