I ask my grandmother whether she remembers her old house. She says: ‘It’s good that I never had a photograph of my childhood home. Because if I had a photo of it, I would have forgotten what it looked like. … Continue reading Mimesis Documentary Festival 2022
For Ben Manalowitz, America is just a theory. And he’s got plenty of them: Theories that favor time over space, myth over fact, conspiracy over simplicity. Some are good, really good, but a lot are over-cooked, over-thought, and over-analyzed after … Continue reading VENGEANCE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about one movie big, Nope (out now in theaters everywhere), and one movie small, In Bed With Ulysses, playing this weekend at the Dairy Arts … Continue reading
For Ricky Park, it all started when the balloon popped. The year was 1998, and Park was the child star of a hit network sitcom opposite a chimpanzee. Then a balloon popped, and unspeakable carnage followed. But the lesson Park … Continue reading NOPE
On June 16, 1904, a 22-year-old James Joyce walked with 20-year-old Nora Barnacle around the Dublin suburb of Ringsend. They enjoyed each other’s company, the sunshine in the park and the sea lapping against the rocks lining the port. And … Continue reading IN BED WITH ULYSSES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the passing of James Caan and highlight one of my favorite Caan performances, 1981’s Thief. Turning now to the present, the Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film … Continue reading
The man is silent. He removes a welder’s helmet and reveals his face: tired, soaked in sweat and soot. He pulls a chair to the center of the room and sits, taking a cigarette out and lighting it. A crinkle … Continue reading THIEF
Fifteen-year-old Olga (Anastasiia Budiashkina) isn’t sure where she belongs. Her mother is a Ukrainian journalist covering the unrest and revolution building in Kyiv. The year is 2013, and things are getting testy in the streets and harder for Olga to … Continue reading OLGA and the 2022 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
The premise for Apples, from Greek director Christos Nikou, is so bonkers it feels real: There’s a pandemic goin’ ‘round, and it’s claiming memories. How and why are never explained. All we know is that it strikes suddenly, attacks without prejudice, … Continue reading APPLES (Μήλα)
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