That's a photo of my pal Mike Schlesinger, who left us in early January and has been much-missed since then. He was a filmmaker and a very important person in the field of preserving motion pictures and their history. A lot of great movies might not exist today — or at least exist in good and complete prints — were it not for Mike. He was also a helluva nice guy.
On April 6, a bunch of us who miss him will converge on a movie theater in Santa Monica to miss him together. We'll talk about him and all he did…and then we're going to run his favorite movie (which also happens to be my favorite movie) the way we all feel it should be seen — on a big screen with a big, appreciative audience. If you knew Mike and/or want to help us celebrate who he was and all he did, click below for all the details.
