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
He’s just so damn handsome. Smooth skin, full head of shiny black hair, snappy dinner clothes, thin as a rail—what girl wouldn’t fall for Jerry Corbett? Coffee heiress Joan Prentice sure does. She falls for his charm and she falls … Continue reading MERRILY WE GO TO HELL
They’re all sort of home movies—a vacation documented… —Orson Welles to Peter Bogdanovich Paris, February 1955: Orson Welles is trying to get a staged version of Moby Dick off the ground. Enter English writer Wolf Mankowitz. Armed with means, Mankowitz convinces Welles … Continue reading AROUND THE WORLD WITH ORSON WELLES
Middle East peace is always a very attractive proposition,” Gamal Helal says. “It’s a very sexy topic. I cannot think of a secretary of state who did not want to get involved in the Middle East. And, by the way, … Continue reading THE HUMAN FACTOR
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Human Factor and Together Together, now playing at your local theater. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 … Continue reading
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Limbo and Four Good Days, both you’ll find in theaters, and three new additions to CU-Boulder’s International Film Series’ virtual theater: The County, About … Continue reading
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