Overwhelming! Two mega-movies, HEAT & RHAPSODY IN BLUE, light up TCM Fest 2025 3
director michael mann, actor al pacino, ben mank in conversation prior to screening of HEAT (1995) at tcl chinese theater part of tcm fest 2025, april 27, 2025 There’s something lacking in the much-bantered trope, “You have to see it on the big screen.” And yet, those very words motivate film fans from across the ...
Thank you, Robert Evans, for ‘Serpico’ scene at Lewisohn Stadium
In this snippet from Serpico (1973), fellow cops Tony Roberts and Al Pacino haggle in the eerie ghost town of a grand structure where so much New York art and culture — famously, summer concerts by the New York Philharmonic — met an avid audience. It’s the 8,000-seat-capacity Lewisohn Stadium on the campus of City ...
“Scarecrow” cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond @ LACMA
Jan
23
2011
Following a double bill at LACMA so soulful and affecting that the feeling was beatific [“Electra Glide in Blue” & “Scarecrow” both from 1973], the museum hosted the great cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond for a talk. Zsigmond, in tandem with his compatriot Laszlo Kovacs, introduced a palette of mittel European muted natural light to Hollywood. According to ...