Director Sam Mendes has been a force in Hollywood for decades, blowing the doors down in 1999 with American Beauty, nabbing five Academy Awards, including Best Director, while the film itself was nominated for eight. That’s a hell of an… Read More ›
Crystal Clarke
Sam Mendes’s “Empire of Light” is a love letter to theaters themselves and the significance they hold. [Film Fest 919]
Empire of Light immediately had me on its side because I too work at an independent, two-screen cinema that features grand Beaux Arts architecture, an eclectic group of regulars, and perhaps an even more eclectic staff. Operating as a sort… Read More ›