On this week’s edition of After Image, Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I discuss Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The Nightingale, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM, 1390 … Continue reading
I left my first view of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood eager to see it again. There was simply too much to absorb on a single viewing. And while the first viewing was mesmerizing, the second was clarifying. There … Continue reading This week in Film — ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD and YESTERDAY
On its surface, The Nightingale is a by-the-numbers revenge tale: A woman is wronged, and she vows to hunt the perpetrated to the ends of the Earth and exact justice. But in execution, The Nightingale is anything but routine. Yes, … Continue reading THE NIGHTINGALE
Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett) can’t sleep. She can’t focus either. She once was an architect, an incredible one, some called her “genius,” but she gave that up 15 years ago. Now, with no outlet for her energy, it explodes out … Continue reading WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE
On August 1, 2019, D(onn) A(lan) Pennebaker, Penny to most, died. He was 94. A true titan of cinema, Pennebaker leaves behind a plethora of work, almost all of it falling under the category of Direct Cinema. His purpose was … Continue reading Sunday Streams — D. A. Pennebaker
Winner of the audience award at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, The Peanut Butter Falcon is a feel-good film wrapped around a Mark Twain yarn. But, the real story is how the movie got made. My interview with … Continue reading This week in Film — THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON
Piranhas (La paranza dei bambini) opens with a theft; a battle between two rival gangs and a government building Christmas tree. Who are these battling gangs? Don’t know. Why do they want it? We have our suspicions, but they are … Continue reading PIRANHAS
Cinematographer Jack Cardiff was born for Technicolor. One of the company’s first technicians, Cardiff mastered the three-strip process in the late-1930s with industrial and instructional films before getting a chance to work as a 2nd unit cameraman on Michael Powell … Continue reading Sunday Streams — 10 from Cardiff
It feels like summer blockbuster season is a little late to the party this year, but Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw makes up for a lot of missed opportunities: Kinetic, bananas, and a hell of a lot of … Continue reading
Documentaries about notable figures are a dime a dozen. The ones that lionize the artists are the most egregious because they distance their work from their humanity. Yes, John Coltrane may have been one of the greatest jazz musicians of … Continue reading This week in Film — TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM
