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
Plunging temperatures and snow have returned to Colorado’s Front Range. As I donned my heavy coat to walk to the library today, images from Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight flashed through my mind. Now there was a movie with some good coats. Particularly … Continue reading Courtney Hoffman and Rosemary Brandenburg on THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Set to screen once more along Hollywood Boulevard, the 11th annual TCM Classic Film Festival (TCMFF) was canceled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the cable channel has pivoted to a “Special Home Edition” of the festival, April 16-19.Not … Continue reading A Community in the Dark: Dispatches from the TCM Classic Film Festival
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
Michael J. Cinema 