As you read this, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) are currently pounding the pavement in New York and Los Angeles, raising signs and rhyming chants to anyone who will … Continue reading National Film Registry 2023 Nominations Ballot
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
Ingmar Bergman said it best: “To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.” And French writer/director Michel Gondry has been heeding this advice since the ’90s. With his start in music videos—Foo Fighters, “Everlong;” Björk, “Bachelorette;” Kylie Minogue, … Continue reading MICROBE AND GASOLINE
Mood Indigo is a simple story of a boy and a girl. The boy is Colin (Romain Duris), 30-something, single, and independently wealthy. He lives in a fantastic apartment, practically pulsating with life. He lives with Nicholas (Omar Sy), his confidant … Continue reading MOOD INDIGO
On seeing Le voyage en Ballon: It’s the first film I remember. It’s the film I like to re-watch the best. When you’re young, you’re very receptive to all the stuff you see, the emotions. And then you try all the … Continue reading Born On This Day — May 8, 1963
Michael J. Cinema 