There are two moments in 2019’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood that take your breath away. The first is visual: A series of neon signs flickering on in the setting Los Angeles sun on Friday, Aug. 8, 1969. The second takes … Continue reading ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD and YESTERDAY
Yesterday is a trifle of a movie: a light, sugary sweet confection that is delicious and satisfying. It’s kind of like an early era Beatles song: bouncy, energetic, and consumed by puppy dog love. Sure, The Beatles also wrote “Don’t … Continue reading YESTERDAY
There’s an oft-quoted line from a 1982 Frank and Ernest comic strip about Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers: As good as Fred was, Ginger could do everything he did, only backward and in heels. Though both actors found success apart, history will forever … Continue reading THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES
The new film from director Danny Boyle and writer Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs, marks the third cinematic interpretation of Apple’s storied co-founder in the past two years—Jobs (Joshua Michael Stern, 2013) and Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015) were the previous … Continue reading STEVE JOBS
Apocalypse Now fueled my obsession with experiences in the cinema, really, of trying to create. There are risks attached to it. You’re trying to stretch things, but you are also fundamentally committed to getting as many people to see it is … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 20, 1956
I don’t want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. At this time of the year you think about awards and if you want to win one you think you should … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 20
I don’t want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that’s under their skin. —Danny Boyle Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, October 19, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 