The timing couldn’t be better. The Alamo Drafthouse’s series, Hot Takes & Remakes, is a bizarre and beautiful collection of 30ish movies—some revered, some despised, all worth a second look. And if you haven’t given Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Boston cops … Continue reading THE DEPARTED
My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. Every film I make represents a departure for me. You see, it takes so long to make a film. By the time you … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 18, 1933
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. —Roman Polanski Continue reading In Their Words — August 18, 2013
I think about a film almost continuously. I try to visualize it and I try to work out every conceivable variation of ideas which might exist with respect to the various scenes, but I have found that when you finally … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, August 8, 2013
I can’t honestly say what led me to make any of my films. The best I can do is to say I just fell in love with the stories. Going beyond that is a bit like trying to explain why … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, July 26, 2013
I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is that I don’t know. The second, all my opinions on the subject are in my films. … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, June 8, 2013
The most difficult thing is to recognize an idea out of the chaos of feelings, reflections, observations, impulses that the surrounding world stirs up in us. Among thousands of possibilities, why do we isolate one idea, that one and not … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 2, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 