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
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts. —George Eliot, Middlemarch On Jan. 31, 2003, Katherine Gun’s life changed. Gun, a translator, working for the British intelligence agency Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), received an email from … Continue reading OFFICIAL SECRETS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Art’s producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss highlights from the 46th Telluride Film Festival—Varda By Agnès, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, A Hidden Life, and Women Make Film: A New Road … Continue reading
For some, equality is a game of mathematics: Clinical, sterile, and dull. But, high up in the Rocky Mountains at the Telluride Film Festival, equality breathes and moves. Here, women dream film, think film, make film, and talk film. And … Continue reading Women Make Film: Dispatches from the 2019 Telluride Film Festival
This week’s edition of After Image is live from Telluride and on the phone with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Don’t Let Go and Love, Antosha, and a quick preview of this year’s Telluride Film Festival. Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
Luxury hotels are bizarre, magical places. They are like hermetically sealed chambers where every possible amenity has been accounted for: Food, drink, entertainment, even pieces of art dot endless hallways of carpet and soft lighting. Muzak plays in the background. … Continue reading THE CHAMBERMAID (LA CAMARISTA)
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss After the Wedding, The Chambermaid and preview the recently released International Film Series Fall calendar. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro … Continue reading
We are living in a golden age of cinema. You might not agree if your focus is solely on multiplexes infected with sequilities and franchise-expansion syndrome. And it might not look that way if your only unit of measure is … Continue reading An International State of Mind: Previewing the Fall 2019 International Film Series
On this week’s edition of After Image, Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I discuss Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The Nightingale, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM … Continue reading
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