On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new documentary My Old School (now playing in limited release) and the 49th Telluride Film Festival (albeit with some technical difficulties). Listen to … Continue reading
You know something’s amiss from the start. There’s something benign about the secondary school classroom setting, something pedestrian about the participants that makes your antenna immediately go up. The presence of the actor Alan Cumming is the second indication. Everyone … Continue reading MY OLD SCHOOL
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Three Thousand Years of Longing (out now in theaters), and the newly restored Buck and the Preacher (available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection). … Continue reading
It opens like any other western: Sepia soaked still photographs of settlers in wagons traversing a wild frontier while title cards credit the actors, the filmmakers, and the dedication. Then the pictures begin to move. In the background, a lone rider … Continue reading BUCK AND THE PREACHER
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the upcoming CU-Boulder International Film Series schedule and give a few recommendations (mark your calendars for the 35mm screening of Memoria on Oct. 12). … Continue reading
I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
A jitterbug contest. Hot rods drag race on a mountain road. A violent car crash. A woman wanders the Hollywood Hills with a head injury. A man recounts a dream of meeting a monster living behind a diner dumpster. A film … Continue reading MULHOLLAND DRIVE
We think of this film as a love triangle between Maurice and Katia, the volcano and the spirit of the French New Wave,” Shane Boris tells me over the phone. The L-word comes up a lot in our chat about … Continue reading Shane Boris on FIRE OF LOVE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the triumphant return of the Mimesis Documentary Festival, screening at the Dairy Arts Center Aug. 2-7, and the feature debut of writer/director B.J. Novak, … Continue reading
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