On this week’s After Image I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released documentary, You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski and how that doc got me thinking of another, American Boy: A Profile of … Continue reading
It’s Tuesday at 3 p.m. outside the Century Theater in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and it’s quiet. Too quiet. You’ll have to excuse the cliché, but it fits. This courtyard should be filled with voices of patrons coming and … Continue reading See You at the Movies?
Soft-spoken and even, Charles Bukowski sounds nothing like his face looks. Or like his prose reads. In his introduction to the 1979 edition of John Fante’s Ask the Dust, Bukowski recounts his early days of living in Los Angeles, drinking wine, … Continue reading YOU NEVER HAD IT: AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI
Every August TCM breaks from its regularly scheduled programming to honor the faces that make the great mechanical art form so enchanting. It’s Summer Under the Stars, 24 hours with a dozen or so movies from a single actor, 31 … Continue reading TCM’s Summer Under the Stars
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new (delightful) wartime melodrama, Summerland, and mark the passing of Hollywood titan Olivia de Havilland. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., … Continue reading
They’ll be love and laughterAnd peace ever afterTomorrow, when the world is free —Vera Lynn, “The White Cliffs of Dover” Frank (Lucas Bond) has come to Summerland. Sort of: Under normal conditions, he’d be living in London, but it’s World … Continue reading SUMMERLAND
Walking through life with you, ma’am, has been a very gracious thing. —They Died With Their Boots On Like all great Hollywood stars, her story starts nowhere near the City of Angels. She was born Olivia Mary de Havilland on … Continue reading Home Viewing: Olivia de Havilland
Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) is going to die tomorrow. She knows it for a fact; she sees it coming. And so can we: It’s colored strobe lights, slow-motion photography, and the opening of Mozart’s Requiem. It’s convincing, but when Amy’s … Continue reading SHE DIES TOMORROW
For many, Citizen Kane, made when Orson Welles was 25 years old, is the greatest achievement of the filmmaker’s tempestuous career. The shadow of Kane is indeed long, and Welles never quite found his way out of it, but it … Continue reading CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT
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