I always wanted to be a cameraman,” Michael Talarico says over Zoom. “I was always into photography, and it was somewhere in my second year at [Colorado State University] that I … thought: I really want to be a cameraman. … Continue reading Michael Talarico on RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON
When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015, he laid down the groundwork with his particular brand of bigotry by claiming, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending the best. … They’re sending people that have lots … Continue reading Jonás Cuarón on DESIERTO
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
About halfway through Sarah Polley’s 2013 documentary Stories We Tell, Michael Polley turns to his daughter and asked, “What is this documentary about?” Well, it’s about stories and, as Melissa Tamminga adds, “Storytelling.” In addition to writing film criticism for Seattle Screen Scene, … Continue reading STORIES WE TELL
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983 film, Born in Flames—a guerrilla-style collage of archival footage, documentary, and scripted narrative that’s as relevant … Continue reading BORN IN FLAMES
It meant an awful lot to me,” Welsh writer/director Sara Sugarman says. “I mean, I wrote all my little films, and Annie Mary, sitting in Wendy’s kitchen, listening to her and her friends talk.” Wendy is Wendy Phillips, a cleaning lady … Continue reading VERY ANNIE MARY
Last Friday, KDVR (Fox 31/Channel 2 in the Denver-metro area) wanted to know what I thought about movie theaters reopening. I had a few thoughts: “Michael Casey is a well-known local film critic.” Flattery will get you everywhere. I think … Continue reading KDVR: How will movie theaters recover from the pandemic?
Rafiki really encapsulates the spirit of the Women Make Film series,” TCM host Alicia Malone says. “It’s rule-breaking, it’s risk-taking, it’s highly entertaining to watch.” And, as the series suggests, it’s a movie made by a woman, Wanuri Kahiu, an award-winning … Continue reading RAFIKI
For more than 30 years, Kirsten Johnson has seen the world from behind the camera. “[It’s] taught me to be quiet,” she says. “To wait for things. And listen and look at people’s bodies and the way they move as … Continue reading CAMERAPERSON
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