Mike Kohler

Dec 14, 2024 | deseret.com | Mike Peterson |Tim Jimenez |Trevor Lee |Mike Kohler |Rex Shipp |Nicholean Peck | +1 more

The 2024 elections here in Utah are over. The results are in. According to the media and most elected leaders, everything went great. We, as legislators, disagree. Elections should be simple. Properly identified voters mark ballots, drop them in a closed box and later that night, election officials count and report them. There is no need for "Election Season," followed by weeks of counting.

Jun 24, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Brogan Morris |Jessica Kiang |Mike Kohler |Isabel Stevens

Sidney Lumet left an immense body of work behind him when he died in 2011. In the 50-year stretch from his first feature to his last, he racked up a total of 44 films (which is to say nothing of the dozens of hours of television he also directed, at the beginning and end of his career). To anyone approaching the Lumet catalogue fresh, such volume alone would be intimidating. Equally imposing, though, is the director’s reputation as an American master.

Jun 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Jessica Kiang Talkies |Jessica Kiang |Mike Kohler |Isabel Stevens

“Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive,” wrote Joan Didion in 1977, toward the end of what had been the driest recorded three-year period in California history. But anyone who’s seen Roman Polanski’s masterpiece Chinatown, released on midsummer eve in 1974, the year that dry spell began, must have reverence for California’s water struggles.

Jun 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Mike Kohler |Isabel Stevens |Hayley Scanlon |Jonathan Romney

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.”George LucasA typical dictionary offers many definitions of acoustic ‘sound’ – covering energy transfer, neurological perception, media content, collectively, such as ‘the sound of The Beatles,’ and environmentally, as in ‘within the sound of the church bells’. Sound invites cross-sensory and emotional response.

Jun 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Isabel Stevens |Mike Kohler |Hayley Scanlon |Jonathan Romney

Agnieszka Holland was a precocious 15-year-old when she decided to become a filmmaker. She has notebooks from those years in which she wrote that three things were important to her: visual expression (she originally wanted to be a painter), telling stories, and – the really precocious bit – power, although she didn’t want to be a politician to get it. “It was the mid-60s, when cinema was very artistic, original and personal,” she tells me.