To criticize a movie, you have to make another movie. —Jean-Luc Godard It might be the most notorious climax in American cinema: A Black man terrorizes a white woman, a Black militia lays siege to a white family’s cabin, and … Continue reading WITHIN OUR GATES
Few films in the annals of American cinema have a longer shadow than D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent epic, The Birth of a Nation. Many filmmakers have made works in direct conversation with Birth, and one of the best is Oscar … Continue reading This week in Film — WITHIN OUR GATES
I made them see, didn’t I? I changed everything. —D.W. Griffith Continue reading Born On This Day — January 22, 1875
What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees. —D.W. Griffith Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, January 24, 2013
I have thought what a great invention it would be if someone could make a magic box in which we could store the precious moments of our lives and keep them with us, and later on, in dark hours, could … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, January 4, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 