If the Western is the vehicle with which contemporary filmmakers investigate the past to understand the present, then Liberty Valance illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since. Continue reading THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, playing CU-Boulder’s International Film Series on Sunday, Nov. 2, and OBEX, playing the Denver Film Festival Oct. 31 and Nov. 8. Continue reading After Image: Oct. 31, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Blue Moon and Frankenstein, out now in theaters, and highlight a few of the features and shorts playing the Colorado sidebar at the upcoming Denver Film Festival. Continue reading After Image: Oct. 24, 2025
No filmmaker working today makes movies like Guillermo del Toro. His are gothic affairs, full of love and sympathy for all creatures great and small, doomed and saved. The color palettes, even when monochromatically muted, have a garish quality to … Continue reading FRANKENSTEIN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Born in Flames (available now on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection) and Orwell: 2+2=5, out in theaters starting Oct. 10. Continue reading After Image: Oct. 3, 2025
On the screen: a green, bucolic, treeless landscape. Welcome to the Scottish isle of Jura. On the soundtrack: the shallow, ragged breath of someone struggling for one more day. These are the dying wheezes of writer George Orwell, born Eric … Continue reading ORWELL: 2+2=5
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic Revolution—“the most peaceful revolution the world has ever known”—but the women have been left behind. So opens Lizzie Borden’s 1983 Born in Flames, a rally cry committed to celluloid that’s bound to stir … Continue reading BORN IN FLAMES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about One Battle After Another and Eleanor the Great, both out in theaters. Continue reading After Image: Sept. 26, 2025
The revolutionary enters the private chambers of the commanding officer. He is Captain Steven J. Lockjaw (Sean Penn)—a magnificent name for a man who walks like the Terminator with a case of hemorrhoids. She is Perfidia Beverley Hills (Teyana Taylor), … Continue reading ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
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