On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Marlon Brando’s centenary, which is being celebrated all month long on TCM, and the newly restored All That Money Can Buy available on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
October marks the 75th anniversary of Alvah Bessie, Herbert Biberman, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Samuel Ornitz, Adrian Scott, and Dalton Trumbo’s refusal to answer the House on Un-American Activities Committee’s question: “Have … Continue reading HIGH NOON ON THE WATERFRONT
Listen to Me Marlon… This is one part of yourself speaking to another part of yourself. Listen to the sound of my voice and trust me. You know I have your interests at heart… Just relax, relax, relax. I’m going … Continue reading LISTEN TO ME MARLON
Some movies never grow old. They exist outside of time and space, always there, always waiting for us to return. Case in point: The Godfather Part I and II. Director Francis Ford Coppola’s saga tells the story of the Corleone crime family, whose evolution … Continue reading THE GODFATHER
If the movie works, nobody notices the mistakes… If the movie doesn’t work, the only thing people notice are mistakes. —Francis Ford Coppola Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, December 16, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 