A letter has arrived at the Swan residence, a despicable letter riddled with obscenities and sexual vulgarity. It’s the 19th of its kind, and each one has scandalized dear old Victoria Swan (Gemma Jones), her stiff-upper-lip of a husband, Edward … Continue reading WICKED LITTLE LETTERS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new comedies out in theaters: The Fall Guy and Wicked Little Letters. Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new sexy tennis drama Challengers (out now in theaters) and the 1964 political drama I Am Cuba, available now on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
It was 30 years ago this April that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) first signed on the air. Truly, it wasn’t that big of a deal then: AMC still stood for American Movie Classics, public broadcasting stations re-ran old movies either … Continue reading “To Build a Better World Together” Dispatch from the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Civil War, now playing theatrically. Continue reading
Within every game, there’s a second game playing out inside the first. We can’t always see it, but it’s often much more significant than the one we’re watching. This is true regardless of your level of involvement with any given … Continue reading CHALLENGERS
What are you boys fighting for? That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote finds it in the story of a Union soldier encountering a beleaguered Confederate rebel, a … Continue reading CIVIL WAR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Marlon Brando’s centenary, which is being celebrated all month long on TCM, and the newly restored All That Money Can Buy available on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.” So said the late film critic Roger Ebert of Cinema Interruptus, the weeklong panel dissecting a movie one shot … Continue reading Watching Out Loud: Josh Larsen on Ebert Interruptus 2024: THE BABADOOK
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