Few cinematic forms benefited from the advent of digital technology like the documentary. And not just in cost and access to equipment but in the proliferation of digital archives directors can draw upon. Add social media’s connective power to track … Continue reading THE BEACH BOYS and LET IT BE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in theaters everywhere, and the newly released set from The Criterion Collection: Three Revolutionary Films from Ousmane Sembène. Continue reading
The child comes from the land of abundance. There is greenery, fruit, water, animals—an entire civilization living and working together inside this Edenic enclave surrounded by hot desert. That hot desert is what’s left of Australia, possibly the world, after … Continue reading FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about I Saw the TV Glow and Evil Does Not Exist, both new to theaters. Continue reading
The place is filled with glowing neon lights, loud noises, and whirling games. Families play and celebrate birthday parties, but down the center aisle shuffles an old-timer apologizing to everyone and no one for their behavior. It’s a new medication, … Continue reading I SAW THE TV GLOW
Something must have been in the water in 1960. All around the world, filmmakers, either at the beginning, middle, or the end of their careers, swung for the fences. In Japan, Akira Kurosawa spun Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a corporate thriller with … Continue reading PEEPING TOM
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new comedies out in theaters: The Fall Guy and Wicked Little Letters. Continue reading
A letter has arrived at the Swan residence, a despicable letter riddled with obscenities and sexual vulgarity. It’s the 19th of its kind, and each one has scandalized dear old Victoria Swan (Gemma Jones), her stiff-upper-lip of a husband, Edward … Continue reading WICKED LITTLE LETTERS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new sexy tennis drama Challengers (out now in theaters) and the 1964 political drama I Am Cuba, available now on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
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