LONGLEGS
The first thing you see is a house inside a boxy frame with rounded edges, like a 16 mm home movie. It’s winter, Jan. 14 to be precise, and a young girl is turning 9 years old. She thinks she’s … Continue reading LONGLEGS
Category: Outlets
MACBETH
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, few hold fascination with artists and audiences quite like The Tragedie of Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet has the romance and Hamlet has the speech, but Macbeth—first published in 1623—is filled with control, corruption, and comeuppance. There’s … Continue reading MACBETH
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about MaXXXine (out now in theaters) and the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival, screening July 11-14 at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder. Continue reading
Passing the Baton: Sarah Keo on the 2024 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
Now in its sixth year, the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival (Boulder ENOFF) has become a summer staple. Screening July 11-14 at the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder ENOFF rolls out the green carpet for four days of … Continue reading Passing the Baton: Sarah Keo on the 2024 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies out in theaters: A Quiet Place: Day One and Kinds of Kindness. Continue reading
KINDS OF KINDNESS
What do you even say about a movie like Kinds of Kindness? Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, the film is composed of three stories, each involving a handful of characters, each played by the same handful of actors. The stories don’t … Continue reading KINDS OF KINDNESS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Hit Man (streaming on Netflix) and The Bikeriders (in theaters). Continue reading
HIT MAN
You wouldn’t see Gary Johnson coming a mile away. He looks a lot like a classic dweeb with those glasses and terrible haircut—never mind that it’s Glen Powell with his chiseled physique and disarming smile under all of that. Gary … Continue reading HIT MAN
TUESDAY
The specter of death hangs over everyone and everything. In the movie Tuesday by writer-director Daina Oniunas-Pusić, that specter takes the form of a size-shifting parrot—a filthy, scarred one with a deep and terrifying voice supplied by Arinzé Kene. How … Continue reading TUESDAY
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