His name might not be as synonymous with the development of cinematic grammar as Alice Guy-Blaché, Orson Welles, or Jean-Luc Godard, but experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s ripples are still felt in contemporary cinema. From The Act of Seeing With One’s … Continue reading Sunday Streams — BRAKHAGE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Joker, the 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters, and the new 4K restoration of Bird With the Crystal Plumage. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. … Continue reading
It’s a double dose of looking back this week. First with Garland, then with Brakhage. Few faces are as iconic in the cinema as is Judy Garland, which is why Renée Zellweger’s performance is so commendable: She inhabits Garland’s looks, … Continue reading This week in Film — JUDY and Celebrating Stan
“I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man.” —Notes From the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky Who makes the monster, and where do they come from? We’ve been asking those questions for far too long … Continue reading JOKER
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the new Judy Garland bio-pic, Judy, a meta-zombie comedy, One Cut of the Dead, and the Boedecker’s screening of 1976’s Network. Listen to … Continue reading
When Network was released in 1976, it was already past its prime. The glory days of the newsrooms were over and sensationalism had replaced rationalism. It looks and feels revolutionary from today’s vantage, but for audiences watching it on the … Continue reading This week in Film — NETWORK and ONE CUT OF THE DEAD
One of my favorite TCM discoveries of 2018 was a 10-minute short Warner Bros. and Vitaphone production: So You Want to Be a Detective. Starring George O’Hanlon (who would go on to voice George Jetson), and created by Richard L. … Continue reading Sunday Streams — (So You Want) Joe McDoakes Comedies…
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the new sci-fi epic, Ad Astra, and a documentary about the epic abilities of mushrooms, Fantastic Fungi. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. … Continue reading
What an odd combination of recommendations. One of the earth, the other of space. One of connection, the other of separation. One of a forager, the other of an explorer. One of… You get the picture. As Ad Astra takes … Continue reading This week in Film — FANTASTIC FUNGI and AD ASTRA
Life at the bottom isn’t easy. Near the bottom ain’t any easier, and that’s where Kasie (Tiffany Chu) resides. Her mother left when she was a child, her father (James Kang) is a bed-ridden invalid in his final days, and … Continue reading MS. PURPLE
