On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Gladiator II, out now in theaters, and, in honor of Thanksgiving, highlight some of my favorite food moments, including slicing garlic in GoodFellas, making a mushroom omelet in Phantom Thread, slicing fish in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and favorite food movies: Babette’s Feast and The Taste of Things. Continue reading
Loving cinema is a one-way street. Oh, I love movies. Hell, I love certain movies more than some of the people in my life. But I realize that adoration isn’t reciprocated. I Know Where I’m Going! doesn’t give a damn … Continue reading MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER
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
Whenever I hear people dismiss movies as “fantasy” and make a hard distinction between film and life, I think to myself that it’s just a way of avoiding the power of cinema. Of course it’s not life—it’s the invocation of … Continue reading In Their Words — August 16, 2013
I’ve always been a very serious-minded person, but people don’t know it, really, they’re always puzzled by my films, that there’s usually something going on in the film besides what you’re looking at, which is of course, the contact with the … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, November 18, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 