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Articles Written by: MICHAEL SRAGOW
Who is This?
Michael Sragow (born 26 June 1952 in New Jersey) is a film critic and columnist who has written for The Baltimore Sun, The New Times, The New Yorker (where he worked with Pauline Kael), The Atlantic and salon.com. Sragow also edited James Agee's film essays (for the book Agee on Film), and has written or contributed to several other cinema-related books.
When he was a penniless San Francisco musician, Mark Bittner, the hero of this documentary, became a self-taught parrot authority and bonded with the species. The title flock, all escaped pets, now roams free, and the birds make fabulous subjects. ...
From MICHAEL SRAGOW,
The New Yorker,
23 Nov 2009
An Anglo-American popular front dedicated to fairness, teamwork, and freedom—that’s the image of Operation Overlord immortalized in this government-produced documentary from 1945. With crackerjack moviemaking and none of the mustiness or restraint of ...
From MICHAEL SRAGOW,
The New Yorker,
16 Nov 2009
author of the Pulitzer-winning civil-rights history "Parting the Waters," spent 1992's election night in Little Rock, Ark., and heard his old political pal Bill Clinton issue "a clarion call for our country to face the challenges of the end of the Cold ...
aspect of teaching acting." Asked whether his scenes in the film resemble moments from his own career and life, he laughs and says, "I couldn't get around that fact if I tried or wanted to."
CHARLES S. DUTTON is the sort of actor who elevates every ...
From MICHAEL SRAGOW,
Inside Bay Area,
1 Oct 2009
Rating: PG; scary images, some violence, language and mild sensuality
Where: In wide release In “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the gang at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry enters the molten thick of adolescence.
The director, David ...
Athletic feats are often described as poetry in motion; a Muhammad Ali fight, good or terrible, was an act of imagination that he worked out before our eyes. That was never more the case than with his most astonishing triumph, the Rumble in the ...
From MICHAEL SRAGOW,
The New Yorker,
29 Jun 2009
her husband's hometown, she says she's happy with "Imagine That" — seeing it for the first time at its recent premiere, she was surprised at how incisive it was about parenting. And she's ecstatic on her Black Forest family vacation with her husband ...
“Shall We Kiss?” is a sensational date movie. Writer-director-star Emmanuel Mouret restores the first kiss to its romantic primacy. He undresses his characters – physically and psychologically – with a light comic touch. They’re amorous idealists. They ...
A pair of films in the boxed set “Alexander Korda’s Private Lives” (Criterion Eclipse) prove that the producer-director Korda and the idiosyncratic star Charles Laughton were, in their prime, as formidable a filmmaking team as John Ford and John Wayne ...
From MICHAEL SRAGOW,
The New Yorker,
25 May 2009
Rapturously engaging. Ousmane Sembene names his movie for a single mother of two educated children, who manages a Dakar, Senegal, gas station with unbeatable aplomb, wielding a bicycle horn like a combination intercom and sceptre. She dispenses justice ...
From MICHAEL SRAGOW,
The New Yorker,
4 May 2009
