Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos. — Elvis Mitchell Chaos 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with… — Elvis Mitchell Being 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 Experiment Copy Share Image
It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient… — Elvis Mitchell Expression Copy Share Image
Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised. — Elvis Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap… — Elvis Mitchell Frontier Copy Share Image
Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the… — Elvis Mitchell Battlefield Copy Share Image
Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, 'Battlefield Earth' has the musty… — Elvis Mitchell Battlefield Copy Share Image
A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because… — Elvis Mitchell Actors Copy Share Image
Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited… — Elvis Mitchell Black people 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
'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights… — Elvis Mitchell Cuddly Copy Share Image
With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the existentialism of the projects of the novelist Donald Goines. — Elvis Mitchell Delivery 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 Career Copy Share Image
Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his… — 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 Alone Copy Share Image
I think there are some people who have this thing where, from the very beginning, some part of them rejects convention. — Elvis Mitchell Beginning 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
There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. — Elvis Mitchell Africa Copy Share Image
'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as… — Elvis Mitchell Actor Copy Share Image
For years, Ono's work - musical and otherwise - was, in large part, dismissed and derided; at best, it was often misunderstood. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and… — Elvis Mitchell Culture 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 Cinema Copy Share Image
We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And… — Elvis Mitchell Amazing Copy Share Image
One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers. — 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 Circus Copy Share Image
Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old. — Elvis Mitchell Actor 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
Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work… — Elvis Mitchell Acting Copy Share Image
In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it,… — Elvis Mitchell Artist Copy Share Image
The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich. — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
