On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my top 10 movies of 2024. Continue reading
Author: Michael J. Casey
2024: The End Has No End
The call came around 8:30, Friday morning. As these things do, it came without presage or pageantry. A friend had died. It happened while he was on a typical bike ride—nothing nefarious, nothing significant, just a simple fall, and that … Continue reading 2024: The End Has No End
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies—one a doc, the other a narrative—about watershed moments in 1960s rock ‘n’ roll: Beatles ’64 and A Complete Unknown. Continue reading
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
For Bruce Springsteen, it was the starting snare shot of “Like a Rolling Stone” that kicked open the door to his mind. He’s not wrong. And he’s not alone. That iconic Bob Dylan song has and will stand the test … Continue reading A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
OH, CANADA
Leo Fife, an acclaimed Canadian documentarian, is rapidly withering away from cancer. With his few remaining breaths, he would like to tell his story. It’s a story no one else fully knows—maybe not even Leo himself. “You can’t do this,” … Continue reading OH, CANADA
THE END
It’s been 25 years since the world ended. Some sort of climate catastrophe is what did it, and the only survivors we know of are Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton), Son (George MacKay), their Doctor (Lennie James), Butler (Tim … Continue reading THE END
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Queer, in theaters, and Paper Moon, on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. Continue reading
QUEER
Queer knows how to hide its secrets. Told in three chapters and one epilogue, Queer opens with William Lee (Daniel Craig) in a Mexican village. Like his fellow expats, Lee spends most of his days drinking and cruising for sex. … Continue reading QUEER
The Sie FilmCenter celebrates DENZ-EMBER
He’s one of our greatest living actors, and Denver’s Sie FilmCenter is here to prove it with a 10-plus-four film series tracing the range and charisma of the incomparable Denzel Washington. The series kicked off Dec. 1 with Malcolm X—followed … Continue reading The Sie FilmCenter celebrates DENZ-EMBER
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