by Jack Brown | Jul 3, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
In film, there have always been levels of stardom. There are those stars whose wattage is measured in tooth whiteness, and whose films are expected to earn many millions based more or less on their mere presence — your Pitts, your Cruises, your Lawrences. Then there...
by Jack Brown | Jun 26, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
Many years ago, I found myself deep in the basement of the old Pleasant Street Theater (now the location of McLadden’s pub in Northampton), cleaning out some old storage lockers. From one of them, I pulled out a dented, dusty, film can, a flat circle of metal about 15...
by Jack Brown | Jun 19, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns
There have been many eulogies given over the years for the American Movie Musical. And while the popularity of the form is certainly not what it was during its heyday — superhero movies, with their own kinds of acrobatics and wish-fulfillment scenarios, seem to have...
by Jack Brown | Jun 12, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns
This week, bicyclists (okay, you power walkers can come, too) get a film festival devoted to that sense of freedom when the Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival comes to the Academy of Music in Northampton for a Thursday evening screening. Now in its eighth...
by Jack Brown | Jun 5, 2017 | Articles, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, Newsletter
Fans of filmmaker John Waters might be familiar with the director’s odd fascination with rats. They crop up with some regularity in his life and work — from the original poster for 1977’s Desperate Living, which featured a cooked rat on a restaurant dinner plate, to...
