Words, for better or worse, shape our perception of the world. Some, like death and decay, carry negative connotations. Hearing them conjures images of mortality, finality, even obsolescence. Others, like birth and growth, invoke positivity: Tiny baby hands grasping adult … Continue reading THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Joker, the 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters, and the new 4K restoration of Bird With the Crystal Plumage. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on … Continue reading
Watching a Stan Brakhage film is like dreaming with your eyes open. The collision of colors and shadows, images overlapping images, distortions, and rapid-fire editing imprints on your eye and synthesizes in your mind. Close your eyes, and what do … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
Judy Garland was born in a trunk. Or so the story goes in A Star Is Born, a movie about an aging actor on his way out, thanks to addiction, and the young starlet he handpicks to bear the burden of … Continue reading JUDY
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the new Judy Garland bio-pic, Judy, a meta-zombie comedy, One Cut of the Dead, and the Boedecker’s screening of 1976’s Network. Listen to … Continue reading
When writer Paddy Chayefsky penned the script for Network, he stumbled onto something special. When director Sidney Lumet and actors Faye Dunaway and William Holden joined, it became mythical. Released in 1976, Network is a landmark of American cinema. For some, it’s an … Continue reading NETWORK
Somewhere in a remote part of Japan, a film crew is shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned World War II facility. The two leads are teen heartthrobs, and the director is of the megalomaniac variety. He can’t get … Continue reading ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (カメラを止めるな!)
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the new sci-fi epic, Ad Astra, and a documentary about the epic abilities of mushrooms, Fantastic Fungi. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on … Continue reading
Ad Astra, from filmmaker par excellence James Gray, opens with a shot of the cosmos, vast and terrifying. As the camera pans across the twinkling dots of a thousand suns, a lens flare catches the frame and briefly illuminates the … Continue reading AD ASTRA
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