Undine—the latest from German filmmaker Christian Petzold—is a curious little mystery about one woman, two men, and a whole lot of water. Derived from the Latin word for wave, unda, Undine is a water nymph in European mythology, which ought … Continue reading UNDINE
It was the 1960s, and revolution was in the air. For French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, cinema was the way to express ideas artistic, political, and otherwise. He opened the decade with Breathless, a free-flowing anarchic take on cinematic language that was … Continue reading MASCULIN FÉMININ
An elderly man in an all-white suit sits in an all-white room. He is broken, beaten, and bloody. What happened to him, we know not. We don’t even know his name. Nor do we know the name of the second … Continue reading THE AMUSEMENT PARK
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the return to movie theaters with A Quiet Place Part II and Cruella (also available on Disney+ Premiere). But if those aren’t your bag, … Continue reading
A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit he is that man. —Robert Warshow Like a lot of you, I spent 2020 at home. And, as you probably know, that meant an awful lot … Continue reading A QUIET PLACE PART II
First things first: No harm comes to the dogs (it’s hard to harm a digital dog). True, there’s one outfit that appears to be fashioned out of Dalmatian hide, but it’s a ruse. Come to think of it, the very … Continue reading CRUELLA
Elizabeth and Monty opens not with a movie but with an incident. Arguably the most infamous incident of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift’s relationship: Him lying on the ground in a pool of blood, her in a white satin cocktail dress fishing broken teeth from his throat. Continue reading ELIZABETH AND MONTY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THEIR INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Dream Horse, now in theaters, and Merrily We Go to Hell, an underrated pre-Code gem restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD from The … Continue reading
Cefn Fforest of South Wales has seen better days. Storefronts are boarded up, and the residents shuffle between jobs that provide no purpose, no sense of meaning. This used to be a mining village—emphasis on used to be. And it … Continue reading DREAM HORSE
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