On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the two new restorations from The Criterion Collection: Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising Continue reading
Author: Michael J. Casey
WITHNAIL AND I and HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
Everybody has a friend like Withnail. And everybody’s worked for a Denis. That’s easy to see. It gets harder when, one day, you stare into the mirror and see either of them looking back. When that day comes, it’s time … Continue reading WITHNAIL AND I and HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
Grand Illusions: Dispatch from the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival
They don’t make ’em like they used to. That’s a line you’re bound to hear anytime you talk to someone fixated on the yesteryears of cinema. Their position: Movies are a paradise lost. But if you know even the surface … Continue reading Grand Illusions: Dispatch from the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival and preview the Sie Film Center’s May retrospective series, Bruce Lee and Beyond. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
THE SHROUDS
It’s been four years since Karsh lost his wife. It probably feels less, considering Karsh (Vincent Cassel) owns both the graveyard where she is buried and the restaurant next door. That’s where he takes dates and discloses that his beloved … Continue reading THE SHROUDS
GUNMAN’S WALK
The father has two sons and one of them is rotten. The only problem is the father sees more of himself in the rotten one than the other. This here is the West, and 20 years ago, it took men … Continue reading GUNMAN’S WALK
On this week edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Shrouds, out now in wide release, and The Decline of Western Civilization, playing the Dairy Arts Center Friday Night Weird series. Continue reading
A WOMAN OF PARIS
The year was 1919, and Charles Chaplin, along with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford, formed the distribution company United Artists. Four years later, made with his own money and on his own schedule, Chaplin released his first film … Continue reading A WOMAN OF PARIS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Sinners, out now in theaters. Continue reading
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