Michael Cimino

In July, 2015, the BBC released a list of the 100 Greatest American Films, curated by polling critics all over the world. I’m watching them and writing about them as a form of self taught film school. This week in honor of spring being right around the corner, we’re doing…

Restored in 4K to haunt a new generation — In 1998, the year of my high school graduation and a time before the internet dominated, the American Film Institute released its 100 Years… 100 Movies list. Here were 100 of the greatest American films ever made, being published just as a burgeoning young cinephile worked his first real job…

Imagine this: Michael Cimino, fresh off five Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director) and the next big “thing” fails to complete the filming of Heaven’s Gate (1980) and stops making movies, all because he couldn’t handle the pressure of following up on not only the movie he needed…

Michael Cimino, the maverick director behind such great works as The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate is dead. He passed away at the age of 77, leaving behind one of the most controversial and brilliant bodies of work in all of the American cinema. There’s some symmetrical in thinking about…

Some of the most interesting upcoming home video releases on the market are coming from Germany and France. Here’s a round-up of some of the discs we’re most looking forward to.

Reconsideration is one of the keys to good cinephilia. Context is everything. This month has seen two works placed up for re-evaluation by two of the foremost specialist home video labels. Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion Of Joan Or Arc has long been a part of the modern canon of…