On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to talk about Shirley, about the writer Shirley Jackson, two of Josephine Decker’s previous films, and recommend a few more movies about writers—Veronica even tosses … Continue reading
From Boulder Weekly Vol. 25, No. 39, “How we got here.” What good does it, writing about classic films? If it’s covering an undiscovered gem or a movie never properly released, that’s one thing. But to cover a classic, a … Continue reading IN A LONELY PLACE
I don’t think plot as a plot means much today. I’d say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven’t seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don’t worry much about plot anymore. I … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 30, 1896
You think you know fuck everything and I know fuck nothing. Well let me tell you, I know fuck all! The next time I want an idiot to do this, I’ll do it myself! —Michael Curtiz (and his wonderful grasp of … Continue reading Born On This Day — December 24
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, November 1, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 