When you see Elio this weekend, hang around for the end credits and keep an eye out for the name Matthew Silas. He’s a CU Boulder grad, and he’s working for Pixar Animation Studios in layout. “Layout is the department … Continue reading The Animated Life: Matthew Silas on ELIO
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies in theaters: Elio and F1: The Movie. Continue reading After Image: June 27, 2025
Sure, he’s handsome, but can he drive? You bet. His name is Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), and he can drop behind the wheel of a Formula One racecar, take it for a spin and tell you exactly what’s wrong with … Continue reading F1: The Movie
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, out now in theaters, and discuss the nature of remakes thanks to two new restorations and releases from The Criterion Collection: 1953’s Wages of Fear and 1977’s Sorcerer. Continue reading After Image: June 20, 2025
Once upon a time, American letters were full of subversives, satirists, and provocateurs. They made you laugh. They made you think. They changed how you saw the world. The best of them made you uncomfortable within safe spaces and made … Continue reading Dad Strangelove: Nile Southern on Terry Southern
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two collections you can now stream on The Criterion Channel: Terry Southern: Hollywood’s Most Subversive Screenwriter and Directed by Jia Zhangke. Continue reading After Image: June 6, 2025
What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable—even for those who haven’t … Continue reading BRING HER BACK
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Bring Her Back, The Phoenician Scheme, and preview the Sie FilmCenter’s June program: Science Friction. Continue reading After Image: May 30, 2025
The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme—the latest from director Wes Anderson—come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there. By the beginning, I don’t mean the actual opening … Continue reading THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
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