As TCM’s Women Make Film series winds to a close this Wednesday, it seemed fitting to revisit a conversation I had with Colorado native, now Los Angeles-based, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith. We chatted back in 2015, when her debut feature, The … Continue reading THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
To hold a meteorite is to place an object older than the history of humanity in your hand. It’s also to touch a truly foreign object. Where it came from and how long it took to get here, we cannot … Continue reading FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two to see in virtual theaters: City Hall (CU-Boulder’s International Film Series) and Frida Kahlo (Denver Film Center). Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
It’s likely that Frida Kahlo’s face is better known than her paintings. Then again, the same could be said of many public figures. Surely more people own some form of paraphernalia with Marilyn Monroe plastered on it than have seen … Continue reading FRIDA KAHLO
On Dec. 1, TCM’s 14-week series Women Make Film comes to a close with movies on death, endings and a little song and dance. When it’s all said and done, TCM’s series will have screened 100 movies from all six … Continue reading This week in Film — Sara Sugarman on VERY ANNIE MARY
A city can’t thrive if we’re disconnected from each other,” Boston Mayor Martin Walsh says. Documentarian Frederick Wiseman agrees. City Hall is the 90-year-old filmmaker’s 44th crack at studying how an institution functions. It’s a stunning work of observation, understanding, and compassion. … Continue reading CITY HALL
Every moment he felt that … he was drawing nearer and nearer to what terrified him. —Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston) is one of those Hollywood agents that earn enough to afford a home in the … Continue reading IVANSXTC.
Despite some hokey moments with swelling, triumphal music, Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 (streaming on Netflix) successfully captures a fractured moment in American history and the growing frustration with representation in the Democratic Party. Similarly, Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and … Continue reading NATIONTIME
If you tuned into this week’s edition of After Image, then you’ve already heard my disappointment with Ammonite—the new romantic drama from British filmmaker Francis Lee. I have many issues with the movie, but one of the main sticking points came with … Continue reading JOYCE AT 34
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two movies that you could have seen in theaters but now will find on streaming: Ammonite and Sound of Metal. Listen to After Image, … Continue reading
