Depending on your mileage, watching a documentary about mock politics in the middle of an election year might either be catnip or a doody-flavored lollipop. Thankfully, Boys State is neither. Sure, it’s about politics and politicking, but the heart of this movie … Continue reading This week in Film — BOYS STATE
On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched space probe Voyager 2 with the expressed mission of exploring the outer planets of the solar system and transmitting the discoveries back to Earth. What, and whom, might it find out there? If Voyager … Continue reading JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY
In the wasteland that is 2020 cinematic releases, Netflix holds some hope. On Sept. 4, they’ll release I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the latest from writer/director/misanthrope Charlie Kaufman. We’ll talk more on Kaufman in a month, but today we turn … Continue reading WILD ROSE
Movies echo movies. Sometimes in the minds of the filmmakers: Conversations in sound and image across time and space. Sometimes in the viewer’s minds: Stories ping-ponging their way through a couple of thousand years of recorded history. More often than … Continue reading AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE
On this week’s After Image I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released documentary, You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski and how that doc got me thinking of another, American Boy: A Profile of … Continue reading
Cinema-going in the time of COVID is sticky business. From shuttered theaters to delayed releases, the business of exhibiting (and seeing) movies is tough getting tougher. And considering that this business model relies on public gatherings, strangers in the dark, … Continue reading This week in Film — See you at the movies? and YOU NEVER HAD IT
On Saturday, Aug. 8, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebrates the work of Charlie Chaplin with 19 films—two of them from the 1950s, an era in which the movie industry changed considerably, and Chaplin found himself on the outside looking … Continue reading LIMELIGHT
On Saturday, Aug. 8, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebrates the work of Charlie Chaplin with 19 films—7 of them shorts from Chaplin’s prolific 1910s period, during which, he became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and one of … Continue reading THE KID
TCM’s Summer Under the Stars kicked off in high fashion with a day devoted to the work of Barbara Stanwyck, easily one of the best actors to ever grace the silver screen. To name her best performances would simply to … Continue reading DOUBLE INDEMNITY
Every August TCM breaks from its regularly scheduled programming to honor the faces that make the great mechanical art form so enchanting. It’s Summer Under the Stars, 24 hours with a dozen or so movies from a single actor, 31 … Continue reading TCM’s Summer Under the Stars
