On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the documentary ¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! and the slightly sci-fi, wholly anti-aging body horror The Substance (both now in theaters). Continue reading
Category: Reviews
MERCHANT IVORY
Collectively, they released 43 films over four decades, reinvigorated an infatuation with costume dramas, and became high-water marks of independent productions. Why they aren’t household names or the titles on the tips of future filmmakers’ tongues is a bit of … Continue reading MERCHANT IVORY
THE BECOMERS
Their world crumbled, so they came to ours. They came from far away and are doing their best to assimilate—to our ways, our beliefs, our culture, even our appearance. It’s all pretty baffling to them, but they’re trying, and they … Continue reading THE BECOMERS
Boulder Makes the Cut: Sundance Announces Top Finalists to Host Famed Film Festival
And then there were three. In a Sept. 12 press release, the Sundance Institute announced the top three candidates to host the future of the Sundance Film Festival. Boulder made the cut. The other two candidates are Cincinnati, Ohio, and … Continue reading Boulder Makes the Cut: Sundance Announces Top Finalists to Host Famed Film Festival
THE SUBSTANCE
It seems like every time you go back to the core myths, the basic structures of morality governing practically any religion or region on the planet, you encounter the same three warnings: Don’t covet money; don’t covet power; don’t covet … Continue reading THE SUBSTANCE
¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR!
¡Casa Bonita Mi Amor! is kind of like Kitchen Nightmares but with celebrities and a beloved artifact of kitschy 1970s Colorado history. The celebrities in question are Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the successful duo behind Cannibal: The Musical, South … Continue reading ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR!
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
The magnificent stranger rides in from nowhere and with no destination. He sports brown boots, shrunk-to-fit dark jeans, and a forest green serape with a white pattern. He’ll give the name “Joe” when asked, but names don’t really mean much … Continue reading A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS
In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival
We’re coming up on the 200th birthday of motion pictures,” film editor Walter Murch told the audience at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. “I said pictures, not photography,” he continued, pointing out that the first zoetropes and phenakistiscopes created crude … Continue reading In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival
CEMETERY WITHOUT CROSSES (UNE CORDE, UN COLT)
The best Italian westerns revolve around revenge. And, as the old Confucian saying goes, “He who seeks revenge digs two graves.” Robert Hossein’s Cemetery Without Crosses (Une corde, un colt) is a revenge tale so sparse the characters needn’t speak … Continue reading CEMETERY WITHOUT CROSSES (UNE CORDE, UN COLT)
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