Tag: cinephile
Will the cinema experience survive?
In the past month, I have written 15 articles about American professional football. That fact may not be of interest to readers of a movie blog – especially an international one like Curnblog whose readers probably think American football is the equivalent of Tom Hooper’s Cats, overblown and silly, spectacle over substance, with the odd…
The Cinema of 1969: Five classics you may have missed
I’ve started writing fifty-year memory essays of late. It’s probably because I am now far enough past fifty to recall the world I lived in fifty years ago. I mean, I have written about The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) and Double Indemnity (1944) as well, but if I have to go back one hundred…
Interview: Shannon Lee, Justin Lin and Jonathan Tropper on Cinemax’s ‘Warrior’
Ahead of the release of Warrior, the new series based on an original concept by Bruce Lee, we chat to his daughter Shannon Lee, Executive Producer Justin Lin, and series creator Jonathan Tropper.
Celebrating 50 years of ‘Memories of Underdevelopment’
It was late March, 1972, and at the Olympia Theater on Broadway, New York film fans were eagerly anticipating a series of Cuban movies, kicked off by Humberto Solas’s historical epic Lucia. The screening was interrupted by a stink bomb – and by the appearance of rats – both reportedly the work of anti-Castro protestors.…
Women in Film: Are things looking up in 2018?
In the final two months of 2018, here in the States, several intriguing movies centered on women will be released. Diverse genres will be represented, including the star vehicle (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which is already generating Oscar buzz for Melissa McCarthy), period ensembles (The Favourite, which has already won awards at the Venice…