The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,'… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Though finally overwhelmed by a preening lassitude, 'Hotel' is never less than fascinating, breaking into multiscreen scenarios like Mr. Figgis's 2000 experiment,… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can't ignore the Asian and Hispanic populations in L.A. We can let audiences know independent film is not just about white… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's so many great films coming out. It's still kind of astonishing to me how certain films get ignored, and that film… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It's got a great subject - the extraordinarily voluble… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent.… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope of my programming… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
We want to see ourselves - but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised;… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The film's star, Eminem, doesn't appear to have a great deal of range, but he can play himself. Even though the protagonist… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's notebook - it clarifies… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Eight-Legged Freaks' runs out of gas scarily fast - its one-joke premise lends itself more to a short than a feature. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like being… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Never Die Alone' is primarily a riveting genre film that neatly exhibits the director's growing assurance - Donald Goines would be proud. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think if some people know anything about African cinema it's something like the The Gods Must Be Crazy, which is such… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
Watching daring, high-tech criminals in action, I have the same thought that probably occurs to other moviegoers: if these guys just held on to… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
Some people bring their work home with them. You might suppose that Sid Mashburn is one of those guys - the man was born… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that will see him in court. With 'Shanghai Knights,' he has… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap contest. This… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share
