THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks. “I’m going to kill myself,” the woman says. “And I want you to be in the room next door when I do.” That … Continue reading THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Category: Outlets
Cue the Projector: Previewing the Spring 2025 International Film Series
They tried to warn us, but the lesson didn’t take. Released in 2006, writer-director Mike Judge’s Idiocracy was offloaded into theaters and damn near buried by distributor 20th Century Fox. In another world, Idiocracy would have come and gone with … Continue reading Cue the Projector: Previewing the Spring 2025 International Film Series
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Nosferatu, out now in theaters, and the Sie FilmCenter’s newest repertory program: Janus for January. Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my top 10 movies of 2024. Continue reading
2024: The End Has No End
The call came around 8:30, Friday morning. As these things do, it came without presage or pageantry. A friend had died. It happened while he was on a typical bike ride—nothing nefarious, nothing significant, just a simple fall, and that … Continue reading 2024: The End Has No End
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies—one a doc, the other a narrative—about watershed moments in 1960s rock ‘n’ roll: Beatles ’64 and A Complete Unknown. Continue reading
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
For Bruce Springsteen, it was the starting snare shot of “Like a Rolling Stone” that kicked open the door to his mind. He’s not wrong. And he’s not alone. That iconic Bob Dylan song has and will stand the test … Continue reading A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
OH, CANADA
Leo Fife, an acclaimed Canadian documentarian, is rapidly withering away from cancer. With his few remaining breaths, he would like to tell his story. It’s a story no one else fully knows—maybe not even Leo himself. “You can’t do this,” … Continue reading OH, CANADA
THE END
It’s been 25 years since the world ended. Some sort of climate catastrophe is what did it, and the only survivors we know of are Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton), Son (George MacKay), their Doctor (Lennie James), Butler (Tim … Continue reading THE END
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