Last week, Michael R. Miller, chair of the UNCSA School of Filmmaking editing faculty, discussed his early life and his decision to join the school in 2015. This week, he generously shares some memories of his adventures in ...
The January doldrums continue with The Turning, an atmospheric but half-baked adaptation of the classic 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw. Not helping matters any is that the earlier screen adaptation, Jack Clayton’s The Innocents ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT DVD PICK OF THE WEEK FAIL SAFE (The Criterion Collection): Producer/director Sidney Lumet’s 1964 adaptation of the best-selling ...
Michael R. Miller has worked with some remarkable filmmakers on some remarkable films: Woody Allen (Manhattan, Stardust Memories), Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull), Brian De Palma (Blow Out), Paul Schrader (Patty Hearst), Herbert Ross (Boys on the Side), Terry Zwigoff ...
Despite the holiday blockbusters and awards contenders still playing multiplexes, January has long been considered a dumping ground for new films, almost as if the studios were unloading their trash come ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT DVD PICK OF THE WEEK PROPHECY (Scream Factory/Shout! Factory): Great directors don’t always make great movies, such as ...
Alabama slammer: Jamie Foxx seeks Just Mercy Its obvious good intentions notwithstanding, Just Mercy comes dangerously close to being a bad film. This fact-based legal drama, depicting a Death Row inmate’s struggle to prove his innocence, spells out ...
Brett Gelman, a 1999 graduate of the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has two reasons to celebrate the new year, both courtesy of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Gelman is ...
MARK BURGER’S VIDEO VAULT DVD PICK OF THE WEEK STREET PEOPLE (Kino Lorber Studio Classics): Roger Moore and Stacy Keach – touted in ...
Having done double-duty in the James Bond series with Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015), director/producer Sam Mendes returns to more somber, if no less stylish, fare with 1917, an absorbing World War I saga he co-wrote with Krysty Wilson-Cairns, ...
