She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares with her son. She takes a bath and services a john. Then she goes to bed, … Continue reading JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES
You could see Stanley Kubrick’s iconic anti-war film Paths of Glory (Jan. 30). Or maybe you’ll check out Kasi Lemmons’ feature debut Eve’s Bayou on 35 mm (Feb. 3). You could see what this critic considers to be the best … Continue reading Cinema Springs Eternal: CU’s International Film Series Returns for Another Semester
In The Story of Film, Mark Cousins traces the innovations and development of cinema’s first century. The book, published in 2004, spans roughly 400 pages with about as many photographs. Cousins’ 2011 documentary of the same name runs 15 hours and … Continue reading THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION
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
For the godfather of narrative cinema, D.W. Griffith, moving pictures “moved.” As he said in 1944, “What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.” For Griffith—and the vast majority of storytellers who … Continue reading NO HOME MOVIE
Michael J. Cinema 