When it comes to westerns, 1950 was a banner year. More than 125 features were released that year—a high-water mark the genre would never again see—and many would become emblematic of the genre: John Ford’s Wagon Master, Henry King’s The … Continue reading WINCHESTER ’73
Every August TCM breaks from its regularly scheduled programming to honor the faces that make the great mechanical art form so enchanting. It’s Summer Under the Stars, 24 hours with a dozen or so movies from a single actor, 31 … Continue reading TCM’s Summer Under the Stars
I have always been trusting my audience to have imagination. Otherwise they should stay out of the cinema. You have to leave something open. The moment you start preaching in a film, the moment you want to teach your audience, … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, August 10, 2013
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. —Douglas Sirk Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, April 26, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 