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
'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muhammad Ali, is Mr. Mann's first… — 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
Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation'… — 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
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
I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum. — 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
Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema? — 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
Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep. — 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 Image
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. — 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 the form… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 pursuing it. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
