Maybe you were underwhelmed by the summer blockbuster season. A lot of them did feel somewhat unfinished and underdeveloped, didn’t they? Perhaps you felt the spring release slate was a little light, and the winter award season was a tad … Continue reading Here Comes Cinema: 2024 Fall Movie Preview
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 51st Telluride Film Festival, and some of my favorite titles from the fest: Will & Harper, Emilia Pérez, and The Apprentice. Continue reading
We’re coming up on the 200th birthday of motion pictures,” film editor Walter Murch told the audience at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. “I said pictures, not photography,” he continued, pointing out that the first zoetropes and phenakistiscopes created crude … Continue reading In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released International Film Series fall calendar and TCM’s new series, Making Change: The Most Significant Political Films of All Time. Continue reading
Former CU professor and current filmmaker Alex Cox is gearing up to make his final feature. “I don’t want it to be my last movie,” Cox says. “It’s just that it very well may be the case. It’s been seven … Continue reading Go West! Alex Cox on Making His Last Movie and the Re-Release of His First
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about one of the best movies out this year: Sing Sing (out now in limited release). Continue reading
In case you somehow haven’t heard, the Sundance Film Festival might be coming to Boulder in 2027. “The Sundance Film Festival has a deep history in the Mountain West, and we can think of no better home for its next … Continue reading Coming Attraction? Unpacking Boulder’s bid for the Sundance Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Alien: Romulus (out now in theaters everywhere) and the Mimesis Documentary Festival (playing the Boedecker Theater in Boulder this weekend). Continue reading
Of the many cruelties of our carceral system—and there are many—the stoppage of time seems especially callous. Think of your schedule so far today: the things you did, the places you went, the freedom to move between them. How much … Continue reading SING SING
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