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, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM … Continue reading
There are two moments in 2019’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood that take your breath away. The first is visual: A series of neon signs flickering on in the setting Los Angeles sun on Friday, Aug. 8, 1969. The second takes … Continue reading 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 D. A. Pennebaker
Stories of how movies get made are as varied as the movies themselves. For Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, two first-time writers/directors, the story of their debut feature goes back 13–14 years to an apartment building along the Santa Monica … Continue reading Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz on 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 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
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