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
This joy is immense. This hope is infinite. Yet … all is vain and ephemeral. Those words, spoken in whispered voiceover, express one of the closing thoughts of Cette maison, a movie bursting with ideas and insights. Written and directed … Continue reading Screened Reality: Previewing the 2024 Mimesis Documentary Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new documentary featuring Martin Scorsese discussing the films and careers of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers, Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger. Continue reading
Loving cinema is a one-way street. Oh, I love movies. Hell, I love certain movies more than some of the people in my life. But I realize that adoration isn’t reciprocated. I Know Where I’m Going! doesn’t give a damn … Continue reading MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a new documentary streaming on Max, Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., and documentaries that have fun with the fluidity of the form: Orson Welles’ F for Fake, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence, Martin Scorsese’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, even Abbas Kiarostami’s fiction/nonfiction hybrid: And Life Goes On… Continue reading
It was the mirrors that caught my attention. I hadn’t seen Jeremy O. Harris’ groundbreaking Slave Play, but Charles McNulty’s review in the Los Angeles Times heralding the West Coast premiere made me very curious. A stage with mirrors behind … Continue reading SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY.
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new horror/murder-mystery, Longlegs (out now in theaters), and the new time-travel romance, The Greatest Hits (on Hulu and Disney+). Continue reading
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
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