On this week’s After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to talk about how some distribution companies are partnering with art-house theaters to keep the cinema stream going. And, if that wasn’t enough for you, a … Continue reading
On May 14, 2018, Tom Wolfe—one of America’s most exuberant writers—died at the age of 88. Among his litany of good works, Wolfe penned The Right Stuff, effectively coining a phrase while summing up the spirit of the idolized American … Continue reading Robert Mitchum
Midge Kelly is the champion. How do we know he’s the champion? Because a ring announcer calls him such a half-dozen times before we even see his face. He is played by Kirk Douglas after all, and with that million-watt … Continue reading CHAMPION
A film is—or should be—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. —Stanley Kubrick Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, November 12, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 