On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my favorite film of 2024, Nickel Boys, out now in limited release, and the newly restored western classic, Wichester ’73, available from The Criterion … Continue reading
On Friday, Jan. 24, the Denver Film Critics Society—a group of writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their picks for the best of 2024. Of the 42 movies nominated, … Continue reading And the winner is…
When we talk about movies, we talk about what they’re about. But when we talk about Nickel Boys, we have to talk about how it’s about what it’s about. “The intention is to be inside the perspective—inside the worldview of … Continue reading “Running in the Rain.” Filmmaker RaMell Ross on Making NICKEL BOYS a First-Person Masterpiece
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about September 5, out now in theaters, and Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, which is playing as part of the Dairy Arts Center’s Artists You Should Know series. Continue reading
On Friday, Jan. 17, the Denver Film Critics Society—a group of writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2024. In total, a whopping 42 … Continue reading And the nominees are…
Ben Chaplin wants to surprise you. It’s a simple charge, but it’s what the stage and screen actor of more than 30 years has in mind when he takes a new role. “That’s always my goal: to do something that … Continue reading “I don’t mind making them uncomfortable.” Ben Chaplin on SEPTEMBER 5
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
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
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