Distress Flares: Cinematic Survival Guide, Vol. 1

April 10, 2025May 2, 2025 Michael J. Casey

We’ve been here before. Sure, it seems worse, and some of the problems we’re facing are novel, but you don’t have to look hard to find analogs and parallels from the past. As Mark Twain put it: “History doesn’t repeat … Continue reading Distress Flares: Cinematic Survival Guide, Vol. 1

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In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival

September 5, 2024September 19, 2024 Michael J. Casey

We’re coming up on the 200th birthday of motion pictures,” film editor Walter Murch told the audience at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. “I said pictures, not photography,” he continued, pointing out that the first zoetropes and phenakistiscopes created crude … Continue reading In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival

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Distress Flares: Cinematic Survival Guide, Vol. 1

In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival