by Jack Brown | Jun 10, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
It’s been almost two months since a devastating earthquake struck Nepal, and while the story of that terrible event — thousands dead, many more injured and homeless, and continuing damage done by some strong aftershocks — has slowly faded from the day-to-day...
by Jack Brown | Jun 2, 2015 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film
We Americans have always seemed, to me, to be a nostalgic people. Maybe my thinking has something to do with the long line of Irish storytellers in my family — even today, the smallest of family events rarely passes without reference to the outlandish history of some...
by Jack Brown | May 27, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Music
Jazz and film have a great history together. In the early days, jazz was a boon to the young film industry, providing a seemingly endless collection of tunes for hit musicals. Indeed, in those days a great soundtrack was not merely something to sing; in many cases the...
by Jack Brown | May 12, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film
Nobody in their right mind would suggest that making a movie is easy. There are so many levels to moviemaking — the writing, the casting, the shooting and editing and sound and music and so on — that it’s a wonder any of them ever come off decently, never mind...
by Jack Brown | May 20, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
Even as they fade from our landscape, there is something quintessentially American about drive-in theaters. They seem, somehow, to contain all the great stages of our lives in one place; in one car, the reckless romance of youth; in another — probably a station wagon...
