Eleanor the Great is a movie in two parts, adjoined, perhaps haphazardly, by another delightful performance from June Squibb. Here, Squibb plays Eleanor, a cagey old coot who doesn’t suffer the lazy and self-centered subsequent generations gladly, doesn’t mince words … Continue reading ELEANOR THE GREAT
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two romances: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, out now in theaters, and I Know Where I’m Going!, screening at the Dairy Arts Center’s Boedecker Theater on Sept. 22. Continue reading After Image: Sept. 19, 2025
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is not for me. There’s part of me that wishes it was, and another part of me that’s glad it’s not. That’s not to say Journey is for no one. Watch this movie for 10 … Continue reading A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY
Butch Cassidy. The Sundance Kid. The names are legendary—synonymous with the Wild West, outlaws and bandits, banks and train robberies. Cassidy was the thinker. The Kid was the fighter. Together, they robbed and rode along the Outlaw Trail and called Hole-in-the-Wall their own. Continue reading BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new nature documentary from Ben Masters, The American Southwest, and preview the Denver Silent Film Festival, screening Sept. 12-14 at the Sie FilmCenter. Continue reading After Image: Sept. 5, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Caught Stealing (out now in theaters) and preview the International Film Series fall 2025 calendar, including an upcoming screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Continue reading After Image: Aug. 29, 2025
Hank is in a whole heap of trouble. It all started a decade ago when Hank, drunk behind the wheel, brought his promising baseball career to a crashing halt. Now he tends bar in New York’s Lower East Side, where … Continue reading CAUGHT STEALING
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Shoeshine, recently restored and available now from The Criterion Collection, and a few back-to-school movies: Clueless, Sing Street, The Holdovers, Rushmore, and College. Continue reading After Image: Aug. 22, 2025
For the boys Giuseppe and Pasquale, the horse means everything. It means the possession of freedom, of financial possibilities. They could rent the horse to wealthy Romans to buy food and maybe a place to call home. Both are in … Continue reading SHOESHINE
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