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
We stand together and reinforce the extraordinary value of this art form. And by ‘we,’ I mean all of us who love cinema and who learn about it as we watch and re-watch these precious films. —Martin Scorsese On April … Continue reading A Community in the Dark: Dispatches from the TCM Classic Film Festival
It takes an army to make a movie. Behind the writers, directors, producers, and actors, hundreds of unseen hands toil endlessly to set the cinematic stage and deliver the illusion we call “movie magic.” “You bring together what [is] real … Continue reading Courtney Hoffman and Rosemary Brandenburg on THE HATEFUL EIGHT
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. That line from John Ford’s seminal 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, doesn’t just encapsulate the movie’s theme, Ford’s overall career, or even the entirety of the … Continue reading Print the Legend: Westerns at the Sie Film Center
When I go to the cinema, I’m often frustrated because I can guess exactly what is going to happen about ten minutes into the screening. So, when I’m working on a subject, I’m always looking for the element of surprise. … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, April 8, 2013
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa. —Sergio Leone Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, January 3, 2013
Politics no longer make any sense in Italy! That’s why I make the films I do. We believed in mankind and mankind has let us down… As intellectuals, we have resigned ourselves, tired of the battle… Me, I live apart and don’t … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, December 17, 2012
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