I have Varda on the mind. And not just because she passed away earlier this year at the age of 90. Or that I just wrote about one of her best films, Vagabond. Or that the Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake’s Femme … Continue reading FACES PLACES
Yesterday is a trifle of a movie: a light, sugary sweet confection that is delicious and satisfying. It’s kind of like an early era Beatles song: bouncy, energetic, and consumed by puppy dog love. Sure, The Beatles also wrote “Don’t … Continue reading YESTERDAY
Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I sit down to discuss Yesterday, Vagabond, and Framing John DeLorean. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, 93.7 FM in Nederland, 98.7 FM in Fort Collins, and … Continue reading
You may think you know my story,” Ophelia (Daisy Ridley) tells us. And for most of us, we think we do. She is Ophelia, daughter of Polonius (Dominic Mafham), brother of Laertes (Tom Felton), and girlfriend to Hamlet (George MacKay). … Continue reading OPHELIA
To see a Studio Ghibli film is to believe: In wonder, in magic, in childhood imagination, and, most importantly, in the capacity for human compassion. And what could we use more right now than a little compassion? Thankfully, GKIDS and … Continue reading Studio Ghibli Fest 2019
When Agnès Varda died March 29, 2019, at the age of 90, cinema lost a titan. Varda’s first film, La pointe courte (about an unhappy couple trying to work through their problems), was shot on location in a fisherman’s village and mixed … Continue reading VAGABOND (SANS TOIT NI LOI)
It’s funny how some movies make their way to the screen. Or don’t, as the case may be. Take Pasolini, the 84-minute biopic about notorious Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini; directed by an equally notorious filmmaker, Abel Ferrara and starring Willem … Continue reading MAMMA ROMA
Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, known simply as Christo, is an 83-year-old environmental artist. Along with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, who died in 2009, Christo found notoriety in large-scale temporary art projects. They wrapped Paris’ Pont Neuf Bridge in 450,000 square feet of … Continue reading WALKING ON WATER
Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I sit down to discuss Toy Story 4 and Walking on Water. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, 93.7 FM in Nederland, 98.7 FM in Fort … Continue reading
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