It’s been 25 years since the world ended. Some sort of climate catastrophe is what did it, and the only survivors we know of are Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton), Son (George MacKay), their Doctor (Lennie James), Butler (Tim … Continue reading THE END
Day 2 of SDFF37 started with a bang and ended with a fire alarm. Halfway through The Clouds of Sils Maria, the fire-alarm went off and the theaters were evacuated (most likely due to a nearby beauty shop, which was flooding as … Continue reading Starz Denver Film Festival: Day 3 & 4
At last year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, I entered a theater playing the movie Grigris with no knowledge of what it was about, who made it, what country it came from, or anything other than it was screening, and I was free. … Continue reading Step Into the Story: Dispatches from the 37th Starz Denver Film Festival
There was this debate between Mark Danner and Peter Sellars in Telluride, and Mark was totally pessimistic and Peter was optimistic. And I said, to make this film you have to be both. You have to be pessimistic because the … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 23, 1974
Formed in 1927 by Louis B. Mayer, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was designed to deal with improving the industry’s image. At that time, movies were not seen on the same sophisticated level as literature, music, and … Continue reading Oscars 2014
I think it’s our obligation as filmmakers, as people investigating the world, to create the reality that is most insightful to the issues at hand. Here are human beings, like us, boasting about atrocities that should be unimaginable. And the … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 23
Michael J. Cinema 