JUDY
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
Category: Outlets
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
NETWORK
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
ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (カメラを止めるな!)
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
FANTASTIC FUNGI
For Paul Stamets, it begins and ends with mushrooms. From death, they create life. From fractures, they create connections. And from sickness, they create health. “Mushrooms represent rebirth. Rejuvenation. Regeneration,” Stamets says. Fantastic Fungi, directed by Louie Schwartzberg and edited by … Continue reading FANTASTIC FUNGI
AD ASTRA
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
OFFICIAL SECRETS
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
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