Neither wind nor rain nor sleet nor snow stopped the Denver Film Festival before—though the blizzard of 1997 tried when it dropped 21 inches and shut the city down. That year Jack Palance received DFF’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the … Continue reading The Best is Yet to Come: Dispatches from the 43rd Denver Film Festival
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, TCM’s Women Make Film series continues with episode eight of Mark Cousins’ docuseries Women Make Film: A New Road Film Through Cinema. The themes of the night’s programming: home, religion and work. Encompassing all three themes—but … Continue reading HOMELAND OF ELECTRICITY (Родина электричества)
Tuesday, Oct. 13 marks the halfway point for TCM’s Women Make Film series—easily the cinematic highlight of 2020—and the premiere of the same-sex love story, Rafiki. Rafiki really encapsulates the spirit of the Women Make Film series,” TCM host Alicia Malone … Continue reading Alicia Malone on RAFIKI
Tall and lean, Jimmy Ringo’s come to town. His pants are ill-fitting and his jacket is a little shabby. His mustache is dumpy and that bowl cut sure isn’t making the women swoon. But the men are in awe. “Hiya, … Continue reading THE GUNFIGHTER
It’s the story of boy meets girl, but it’s all mixed up. He’s Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a married man with kids. She is Marianne (Anna Karina), the babysitter. But they are not strangers; they’ve known each other for years: Four … Continue reading PIERROT LE FOU
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Dick Johnson Is Dead, currently streaming on Netflix. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM … Continue reading
Dick Johnson isn’t dead. Not yet, at least. But he will be. We all will, sooner or later. And it’s sooner for Dick if his daughter has anything to say about it. Born C. Richard Johnson in 1932, Dick was … Continue reading DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD
For more than 30 years, Kirsten Johnson has seen the world from behind the camera. “[It’s] taught me to be quiet,” she says. “To wait for things. And listen and look at people’s bodies and the way they move as … Continue reading Kirsten Johnson on CAMERAPERSON
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Kajillionaire (new in theaters), Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3 (new to Blu-ray/DVD on Sept. 29), Wild Daze (now playing virtual theaters), and … Continue reading
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