Some folks call it the simple life. Maybe it is compared to the big city, but farm living sure ain’t easy. And simple isn’t the best way to describe it anymore—with robotic arms milking cows every morning and oversized rumbas … Continue reading THE COUNTY
Much like James Joyce’s Ulysses and Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz yoked the novel from the 19th century into the 20th. But unlike Ulysses and The Magic Mountain, Berlin Alexanderplatz has lent itself favorably to the screen. First in 1931, with director Phil Jutzi parring the … Continue reading BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ
Born April 23, 1894, in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzage wanted to be in entertainment since he was a kid. That takes money, so Borzage worked odd jobs in mines and on cooking lines to pay his way. Work … Continue reading Frank Borzage
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Frank Borzage—the recipient of the first Best Director Oscar. One of his signature films, History is Made at Night has been recently restored and … Continue reading
Nowadays we call them noir, but back in the 1940s and ’50s they didn’t have a name. Born out of 1930s hard-boiled novels and an influx of European filmmakers fleeing fascism, films noir (as French film critics later coined them) were … Continue reading THE FURIES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Courier (available now On Demand), Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (playing Denver Film’s Women+Film Festival), and The Furies, out on Blu-ray and DVD from … Continue reading
When Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club hit shelves in 1989, more than one reviewer interpreted the narrative’s central tension between mothers and daughters as autobiography. And when the movie adaptation came out in 1993—cowritten by Tan—those assumptions multiplied. That happens with … Continue reading AMY TAN: UNINTENDED MEMOIR
Located next to the butcher’s shop, down the row from the local pub, Deadly Cuts is the hair salon where the women of Piglinstown, Dublin, congregate. It’s a safe space in a rundown town that never feels safe. The gangs, … Continue reading DEADLY CUTS
Every year, CU-Boulder’s International Film Series screens all 15 movies nominated in the short subject categories for the Academy Awards. This year, no surprise here, they’re all playing virtually. So it seemed fitting that IFS programmer Pablo Kjølseth and I … Continue reading Z-Brief: Oscar Nominated Short Subjects
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