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Tag: The Red Shoes

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

NUREYEV

March 17, 2023April 14, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Why do you want to dance?Why do you want to live?Well, I don’t know exactly why, but I must.That’s my answer too. —Boris Lermontov and Vicky Page, The Red Shoes Born March 17, 1938, in Irkutsk, Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was a … Continue reading NUREYEV

Boulder Weekly, Cinema 101

Cinema 101

September 21, 2022September 20, 2022 Michael J. Casey

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

Boulder Weekly, Home Video, Reviews

THE RED SHOES

December 14, 2021December 4, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Why do you want to dance?” the man asks the girl. The girl pauses and answers his question with a question, “Why do you want to live?” “I don’t know exactly why,” the man responds with a smile. “But I … Continue reading THE RED SHOES

Boulder Weekly, Sunday Streams

THE GOLD RUSH

November 28, 2021November 29, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Made in 1925, Charlie Chaplin’s greatest comedy is also his most recognizable. From the Little Tramp (Chaplin) woefully underdressed in the Klondike to hunger so intense he envisions his cabin-mate as a large roast chicken. But it’s the dance of … Continue reading THE GOLD RUSH

Sunday Streams

10 from Cardiff

August 4, 2019February 12, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Cinematographer Jack Cardiff was born for Technicolor. One of the company’s first technicians, Cardiff mastered the three-strip process in the late-1930s with industrial and instructional films before getting a chance to work as a 2nd unit cameraman on Michael Powell … Continue reading 10 from Cardiff

In Their Words

Born On This Day — December 5, 1902

December 5, 2014October 17, 2021 Michael J. Casey

I think that a film should have a good story, a clear story, and it should have, if possible, something which is probably the most difficult thing—it should have a little bit of magic. Magic being untouchable and very difficult … Continue reading Born On This Day — December 5, 1902

Essays, The Archers

The Archers

March 14, 2013May 5, 2021 Michael J. Casey

The study of cinema is the study of directors, or more accurately, the study of auteurs. Single visions brought to life via a committee. Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, John Ford, all of these names immediately pop into our minds when we think of … Continue reading The Archers

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