In The Story of Film, Mark Cousins traces the innovations and development of cinema’s first century. The book, published in 2004, spans roughly 400 pages with about as many photographs. Cousins’ 2011 documentary of the same name runs 15 hours and … Continue reading THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Judy Garland’s centenary, which is being celebrated all month long on TCM and The Criterion Channel. And speaking of The Criterion Channel, there is … Continue reading
Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. —Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globe acceptance speech. On May 25, 2019, Bong Joon-ho, the 49-year-old filmmaker from Daegu, South Korea, ascended the stairs … Continue reading Essential Cinema: South Korea
2014, like any year prior to it, was a magnificent year for moviegoing. Granted, there were the duds, the sequels, the franchises, and, once again, a Michael Bay Transformers movie took the number one spot at the box office, but they … Continue reading 2014: A Year of Moviegoing
In case you’ve had your head under a rock or simply don’t care how movies are presented, then here is a very brief recap. In the past decade, theaters nationwide have swapped their 35 mm reel-to-reel projectors for digital cinema … Continue reading Film on Film: Pablo Kjølseth on CU’s International Film Series
In 2014, the nations of Earth decided that they could no longer ignore the issue of global warming. Their solution was to use airplanes to disperse a chemical into the atmosphere in hopes of bringing the temperature down. They inadvertently … Continue reading SNOWPIERCER
Michael J. Cinema 