Caught By the Tides isn’t your typical movie. It’s an assembly of previously shot footage directed by Jia Zhange-ke, all of them starring his wife, actress Tao Zhao, over three decades. In one aspect, these are the odds and ends, … Continue reading CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (风流一代)
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two collections you can now stream on The Criterion Channel: Terry Southern: Hollywood’s Most Subversive Screenwriter and Directed by Jia Zhangke. Continue reading After Image: June 6, 2025
After 30 years in front of the camera, actress Julia Stiles has taken on a new position in cinema: director. “It was a revelation,” Stiles said at the 2025 Women+Film Festival in May. “The messaging when you’re an actress, predominantly, … Continue reading Women+Film: Julia Stiles on WISH YOU WERE HERE
What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable—even for those who haven’t … Continue reading BRING HER BACK
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Bring Her Back, The Phoenician Scheme, and preview the Sie FilmCenter’s June program: Science Friction. Continue reading After Image: May 30, 2025
The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme—the latest from director Wes Anderson—come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there. By the beginning, I don’t mean the actual opening … Continue reading THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, out now in theaters, and the 16th Women+Film Festival, which will play the Sie FilmCenter May 30-June 1. Continue reading After Image for the weekend of May 23, 2025
Some topics never go out of fashion. We really wish they would, but we never seem to be that lucky. On June 1, the Women+Film Festival will host a community conversation: The Makings of a Moral Panic (10 a.m.), exploring … Continue reading Wish You Were Here: Previewing the 2025 Women+Film Festival
For the past 30 years, Ethan Hunt has had a choice. “Your mission, if you choose to accept.” And he accepts; he always does. But what if Hunt never had a choice to start with? I guess the choice: “Yes … Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
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