While watching recent Academy Award winnerThe Artist in the theater not long ago, we couldn’t help but notice that it lifted footage from a classic silent era film (The Mark of Zorro) starring one our favorite action heroes, Douglas Fairbanks. Selecting just one Fairbanks feature to recommend as a starter is a difficult exercise; The Mark … Continue reading
Martin Scorsese has long been regarded as a great American filmmaker of astounding talent. With his latest film, Hugo (adapted from the children’s novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret), he has indelibly established himself as a master filmmaker, one whose repetoire continues to expand. Hugo is the movie that we’d least expect from the man; it’s also the … Continue reading
So I’ve decided to take the plunge into the blogosphere. My career has pretty much centered on two things: cinema and writing. Hence the title of this sucker. It pretty much sums up what I intend to do here, which is take my film journalism experience and channel it into two areas: film criticism and … Continue reading