by Jack Brown | Jan 28, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film, News
As a young and nerdish boy, I was obsessed with words. I collected them the way a lepidopterist might collect moths, catching them on the wing and pinning them down to puzzle out their origins, oddities, and family ties to other words. It all felt like a marvelously...
by Jack Brown | Jan 21, 2015 | Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Film
The people who run the show over at Amherst Cinema have never been content with the idea that their venue is a mere movie theater. From the start, the vision of the theater encompassed not just great film, but also community enrichment, education, and more. As the...
by Jack Brown | Jan 15, 2015 | Articles, Arts, Cinemadope, Columns, Featured, Film, News
Any career that lasts long enough is sure to have its share of ups, downs, and surprises. Sometimes we come out on top, sometimes we fall flat on our face. Most of us, though, have the blessing of soaring or falling with a bit more privacy than the actors and...
by Jack Brown | Jan 7, 2015 | Cinemadope, Columns, Film
For all its sun, California has never lacked for shadows. Before their books were made into genre-defining films, writers like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett — authors who essentially invented hard-boiled detective fiction with books like The Big Sleep and The...
by Jack Brown | Dec 24, 2014 | Articles, Featured, News
The musical has always been an important part of the filmmaking world. In the earlier days of film, when crowds were more likely to be familiar with singing stars of the stage, a flimsy story could be propped up with a handful of winning tunes. Think of the...
