On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival and preview the Sie Film Center’s May retrospective series, Bruce Lee and Beyond. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
It’s been four years since Karsh lost his wife. It probably feels less, considering Karsh (Vincent Cassel) owns both the graveyard where she is buried and the restaurant next door. That’s where he takes dates and discloses that his beloved … Continue reading THE SHROUDS
The father has two sons and one of them is rotten. The only problem is the father sees more of himself in the rotten one than the other. This here is the West, and 20 years ago, it took men … Continue reading GUNMAN’S WALK
On this week edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Shrouds, out now in wide release, and The Decline of Western Civilization, playing the Dairy Arts Center Friday Night Weird series. Continue reading
The year was 1919, and Charles Chaplin, along with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford, formed the distribution company United Artists. Four years later, made with his own money and on his own schedule, Chaplin released his first film … Continue reading A WOMAN OF PARIS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Sinners, out now in theaters. Continue reading
Concerned about what?” That was the question an attendee at the Conference on World Affairs posed after hearing about the theme of the ongoing Boulder Weekly special issue series: A Survival Guide for Concerned Citizens. “Concerned about the planet?” he … Continue reading Documentaries for Concerned Citizens: Cinematic Survival Guide, Vol. 2
The twins have come home. Years ago, they left for the war in Europe, then money in Chicago, but now they’re back in 1930s Mississippi with a truckload of Irish beer and Italian wine and designs to open up a … Continue reading SINNERS
We’ve been here before. Sure, it seems worse, and some of the problems we’re facing are novel, but you don’t have to look hard to find analogs and parallels from the past. As Mark Twain put it: “History doesn’t repeat … Continue reading Distress Flares: Cinematic Survival Guide, Vol. 1
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