formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
A good holiday gift for any film buff is a movie poster.On Saturday, The Kentucky Theatre hosted a Posters and Popcorn Sale.The historic Lexington venue had a variety of movie posters dating back 20-30 years. There was also hot cocoa … Continued
Robert Pope, then aged seven, remembered screaming and shouting in the Glen Cinema in Paisley, where around 600 children watched a matinee on Hogmanay afternoon in 1929, but that was normal for a Western, he thought. But as Pope sunk … Continued
A decade back, Clarissa Campolina burst on the filmmaking scene co-directing with Helvecio Marins Jr. “Swirl” (“Girimunho”), a portrait of an elderly faith healer on Brazil’s arid highlands and the beliefs, myths and habits of rural Brazil before they are … Continued
There isn’t much that would entice me — a city dweller, born in the District — to regularly drive two hours round-trip into the far distant suburbs . . . for a movie. But Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the beloved Texas-based chain of … Continued
Anyone can be possessed by the memory of a person or the idea of a person. Scottie Ferguson, the retired San Francisco detective played by Jimmy Stewart in “Vertigo”, becomes obsessed with the prototypical Hitchcock blonde, Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak). … Continued
“Where do you get your ideas?” People love to lob this question at writers, and it’s often unanswerable, but for James Cameron, the writer-director of “The Terminator,” it’s a question that scrapes the dust — or nuclear ash — off … Continued