Nowadays we call them noir, but back in the 1940s and ’50s they didn’t have a name. Born out of 1930s hard-boiled novels and an influx of European filmmakers fleeing fascism, films noir (as French film critics later coined them) were … Continue reading THE FURIES
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Human Factor and Together Together, now playing at your local theater. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 … Continue reading
Though the name Emily Dickinson may be well known—most can identify her as one of the greatest American poets—not many can recite the Belle of Amherst, a play about her life, line-by-line. That same disparity can be found in the oeuvre … Continue reading A QUIET PASSION
It’s 1950, and John Ford wants to make a movie: The Quiet Man, from a story by Maurice Walsh, about a retired boxer who returns to his birthplace in Ireland and falls for a vivacious redhead. The movie will star John Wayne … Continue reading RIO GRANDE
When Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club hit shelves in 1989, more than one reviewer interpreted the narrative’s central tension between mothers and daughters as autobiography. And when the movie adaptation came out in 1993—cowritten by Tan—those assumptions multiplied. That happens with … Continue reading AMY TAN: UNINTENDED MEMOIR
His name is Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli), and he calls no nation home. He’s a sailor by trade—the kind mothers warn their daughters about: tall, dark, and handsome with a few roguish scars and a spectacular head of hair. He’s … Continue reading MARTIN EDEN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Limbo and Four Good Days, both you’ll find in theaters, and three new additions to CU-Boulder’s International Film Series’ virtual theater: The County, About … Continue reading
Molly (Mila Kunis) was 17 when she sprained her knee waterskiing. Later that day, she walked out of the doctor’s office with a fistful of oxy. Now Molly’s 31, toothless, and strung out on her mother’s front porch. I just … Continue reading FOUR GOOD DAYS
