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Tag: Emeric Pressburger

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival

May 6, 2021August 24, 2023 Michael J. Casey

For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

BLACK NARCISSUS

June 2, 2016May 22, 2023 Michael J. Casey

Movies aren’t reality. They’re visual expressions of an emotional experience. The best filmmakers have known this all along, but it’s worth bringing up, as many seem to forget this crucial caveat. For too many, movies must present, literally, the source … Continue reading BLACK NARCISSUS

Boulder Weekly, Reviews, The Archers

THE RED SHOES

June 4, 2015August 10, 2023 Michael J. Casey

Why do you want to dance?” the man asks the girl. The girl pauses and answers his question with a question, “Why do you want to live?” “I don’t know exactly why,” the man responds with a smile. “But I … Continue reading THE RED SHOES

In Their Words

Born On This Day — December 5, 1902

December 5, 2014October 17, 2021 Michael J. Casey

I think that a film should have a good story, a clear story, and it should have, if possible, something which is probably the most difficult thing—it should have a little bit of magic. Magic being untouchable and very difficult … Continue reading Born On This Day — December 5, 1902

In Their Words

Born On This Day — December 5

December 5, 2013December 6, 2021 Michael J. Casey

I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing—that it all started with a mouse. Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new … Continue reading Born On This Day — December 5

In Their Words

Born On This Day — September 30

September 30, 2013December 21, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Of course, all films are surrealist. They are because they are making something that looks like a real world but isn’t. Seventy years ago there were men like D.W. Griffith and seventy years later—now—there are not many men like Martin … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 30

In Their Words

In Their Words — Saturday, April 27, 2013

April 27, 2013December 14, 2021 Michael J. Casey

The great innovators have always been fearless . . . I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, April 27, 2013

The Archers

The Archers

March 14, 2013August 16, 2023 Michael J. Casey

The study of cinema is the study of directors, or more accurately, the study of auteurs. Single visions brought to life via a committee. Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, all of these names immediately pop into our minds when we think of … Continue reading The Archers

In Their Words

In Their Words — Thursday, October 4, 2012

October 4, 2012December 27, 2021 Michael J. Casey

…how many times have I told you that a film is not words … it is thoughts, and feelings, surprises, suspense, accident. —Emeric Pressburger Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, October 4, 2012

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