Many moons ago (okay, four years), the Denver Film Center unveiled a new program conceived by then-technical director, Randall Harper: Classics in Context. All the movies featured in the series would be familiar to cineastes, but Harper’s goal was to … Continue reading Classics in Context: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
I’ve had Hitchcock on the brain recently. Partly because Blow the Man Down (reviewed in this week’s Boulder Weekly), and partly because I’ve been going back through all my Hitchcock Blu-rays, listening to commentary tracks and enjoying the bonus features, … Continue reading VERTIGO
At a seminar with film students in the 1970s, Capra was asked if there was still a way to make movies about the kinds of values and ideals found in the Capra films. “Well, if there isn’t,” he said, “we might as well give up.” Continue reading In Their Words – Saturday, May 18, 2013
“I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-people… You can only involve an audience with people. You can’t involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything else. They couldn’t care less about those things. But you give them something to worry about, some person they can worry about, and care about, and you’ve got them, you’ve got them involved.” -Frank Capra Continue reading In Their Word – Wednesday, January 16, 2013
“Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film.” – Frank Capra Continue reading In Their Words – Monday, August 20, 2012
