He’s just so damn handsome. Smooth skin, full head of shiny black hair, snappy dinner clothes, thin as a rail—what girl wouldn’t fall for Jerry Corbett? Coffee heiress Joan Prentice sure does. She falls for his charm and she falls … Continue reading MERRILY WE GO TO HELL
Middle East peace is always a very attractive proposition,” Gamal Helal says. “It’s a very sexy topic. I cannot think of a secretary of state who did not want to get involved in the Middle East. And, by the way, … Continue reading THE HUMAN FACTOR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Human Factor and Together Together, now playing at your local theater. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 … Continue reading
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Limbo and Four Good Days, both you’ll find in theaters, and three new additions to CU-Boulder’s International Film Series’ virtual theater: The County, About … Continue reading
There’s plenty of cultural baggage in Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, the latest from the Swedish filmmaker, not to mention stasis. Andersson is the king of static shot tableau filmmaking, and About Endlessness comprises 32 immobile shots, most of them non sequiturs of varying … Continue reading ABOUT ENDLESSNESS
Sometimes a coincidence is too good to ignore, and this weekend we’ve got two new movies, alike in style and substance, ripe for a good old-fashioned double feature. First up, Limbo from Scottish writer/director Ben Sharrock. Set on an unnamed Scottish isle, Limbo centers … Continue reading LIMBO and ABOUT ENDLESSNESS (OM DET OÄNDLIGA)
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Frank Borzage—the recipient of the first Best Director Oscar. One of his signature films, History is Made at Night has been recently restored and … Continue reading
Nowadays we call them noir, but back in the 1940s and ’50s they didn’t have a name. Born out of 1930s hard-boiled novels and an influx of European filmmakers fleeing fascism, films noir (as French film critics later coined them) were … Continue reading THE FURIES
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