The Beginning. What You will Get from Me.

Hello.

I love the cinema. I love movies, films and the things in between. Here you will find reviews, editorials, stories and moments of reflection on a world all around us and away from us. I have studied film for most of my life, either as a personal pursuit or while attending the university. I like to think that movies have had a great influence in shaping my mind and attitudes. I give it credit for a vast amount of things including saving my life in some overly dramatic high school kind of way. Here are my thoughts on, for and about film. I hope you will share them with me.

I leave you with a couple of excerpts from a couple of films I enjoy. The first comes from one of the greatest films in history, Citizen Kane. The excerpt is the promise Charles Foster Kane publishes in the newspaper he had just purchased. The second is the note made by Anton Ego in the delightful animated comedy, Ratatouille.







The details are not exact. The first applies to a newspaper, the greater picture and a bigger wold. The second applies to critics and cooking. I think they still apply. In essence I want to write a truthful, meaningful, direct and honest blog about cinema. There is not much I don't want to talk about or explore. I want to write about movies, good and bad, uncovered and discovered. I want to celebrate actors, writers, directors, make up artists, camera operators and more. This is a blog that will not neglect history or ignore that history is being made with every second that passes. This might be a lot to think about but it is my belief as well as many others that the cinema is the art form of the 20th century. I choose to celebrate that art form.

thank you.

A. Ramirez