Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sydney Pollack, Francis Ford Coppola, Norman Jewison, Brian De Palma, Werner Herzog…just a small handful of the legendary directors who made t...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/directorial-debuts-part-iii-1960s/
Rather than waste my time by writing some fancy build-up to what the premise of this post is, I will just come right out and say it…this trailer sucks. I speak as an enthusiastic devotee of the...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/new-great-gatsby-trailer-looks-terrible/
I can’t sit through this movie, but perhaps I actually would have liked Dirty Dancing if it was directed by David Lynch. I came across this video a while back and thought it was pretty funny �...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/what-if-david-lynch-directed-dirty-dancing/
Here’s one movie I now have on my radar. Scheduled for release in December of this year, Scott Walker makes his debut as writer and director of the serial killer thriller Frozen Ground. The fil...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/frozen-ground-first-look-into-serial-killer-pic/
Last week, Tim Burton’s newest film Dark Shadows was released and opened to a modest $30 million domestic at the box office. But it is Burton after all, and the perfect opportunity to welcome a...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/tim-burtons-dark-shadows-a-movie-review/
I saw this video a couple of years back — it made me laugh then, and it surely makes me laugh now. Here, Sir Ian McKellen is interviewing Ricky Gervais for a stage play. But McKellen wants to m...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/weekend-humor-sir-ian-mckellen-on-acting/
The 1970’s is my favorite decade of cinema by far. Most of my most admired directors had their heyday during this ten-year period, and the majority of films I consider my all-time favorites cam...
https://magiclanternfilm.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/directorial-debuts-part-ii-1970s/