Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. It opens with sex: Explicit, hardcore sex in the bedroom. The woman before the camera is Emilia (Katia Pascariu), a teacher at a local private school. The man holding the camera is Eugene (Stefan … Continue reading BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 44th Denver Film Festival‘s opening night film, Spencer, one from the Colorado Spotlight sidebar, The Sleeping Negro, and another playing Women+Film, Ballad of … Continue reading
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. With a nod to the writings of James Baldwin, Skinner Myers’ The Sleeping Negro consists of two conversations about race and revolution punctuated by a call to action and the dramatic rendering of theoretical decisions. In … Continue reading THE SLEEPING NEGRO
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. At first blush, Paris, 13th District appears to be a collection of short stories. It starts with Camille (Makita Samba) meeting Émilie (Lucie Zhang). He is looking for a room to rent, and she is looking … Continue reading PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (LES OLYMPIADES)
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. When it comes to cinematic landscapes, few are as iconic—or at least as mined—as Monument Valley. Located in northern Arizona, home to the Navajo Nation, Monument Valley was placed in the geography of cinema … Continue reading THE TAKING
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. Rysûke Hamaguchi’s cinematic adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, “Drive My Car,” opens with another Murakami short story, also taken from the collections Men Without Women. The story is “Scheherazade,” about a social worker’s weekly … Continue reading DRIVE MY CAR (ドライブ・マイ・カー)
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Last Night in Soho, and preview the 44th Denver Film Festival—particularly the new documentary Anonymous Sister. Speaking of, Anonymous Sister director Jamie Boyle spoke … Continue reading
Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) lives for the 1960s. The clothes she wears, the music she listens to, even the movie posters on her bedroom wall scream Swingin’ Sixties. That’s when style mattered, when London was the center of the universe, and … Continue reading LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Somewhere deep in the Oregonian woods, a creature lurks. The origins of the beast are not known, though a retired sheriff suspects it to be ancient and long-dormant. Why it decided to show up in 2019 is anybody’s guess, but … Continue reading ANTLERS
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