I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
Film noir gained popularity in the early 1940s, just as America entered the war, and the moviegoing public was looking for something darker to sink their teeth into. Lucky for them, Hollywood recently gained an influx of European émigrés fleeing … Continue reading DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Some pictures play wonderfully to a room of eight people. I don’t go for that. I go for the masses. I go for the end effect. I love to shoot elegantly and I pride myself that it’s not whacked together … Continue reading Born On This Day — June 22, 1906
Michael J. Cinema 