There was no show last year; it was called on account of pandemic. Just as well: Wildfires all along the West draped a burnt orange curtain inside Telluride’s box canyon and cut visibility from miles to feet. Movies are about … Continue reading The Show Must Go On: Dispatches From the 48th Telluride Film Festival
Sometimes it seems like the right person walks into your life just a moment before you need them. You don’t know it at the time, but when you look back, it almost feels scripted. That’s one of the pleasures of Language … Continue reading LANGUAGE LESSONS
I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels So says Ruth Roman in Tomorrow is Another Day, a forgotten lovers-on-the-lam noir from 1951. Or it would have been forgotten … Continue reading Eddie Muller on DARK CITY: THE LOST WORLD OF FILM NOIR
Childhood isn’t easy for a lot of people, but for Jennifer Vogel, it was a little harder. That’s because Dad left, and Mom hit the bottle. Mom eventually cleaned herself up, but Dad never came back. He couldn’t. Shady business … Continue reading FLAG DAY
The world of Candyman is all upside down and backward. As if truth can only be seen reflected. In a way, that’s what a camera lens does—it takes an image, inverts it, and captures it. And when the image is projected, things … Continue reading CANDYMAN
You don’t know it at first, but this is purgatory. Well, a way station might be a better description. Regardless, all the clients who arrive are deceased, and it’s up to the clerks to get them to the next place. … Continue reading AFTER LIFE (ワンダフルライフ)
Though Sauron divvied out 19 rings, he only needed one. Wenwu has 10, five for each arm, and they can do just about whatever he wants: Accelerate punches, shoot energy blast, fly around the room and knock over enemies, you … Continue reading SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new documentaries that make for one heck of a double feature: In the Same Breath (streaming now on HBO Max) and Bring Your … Continue reading
The small farming town of Badger, New York has dropped dead. Yesterday, 3,000 people lived there. Today it’s a gray and ashen wasteland. Tomorrow, 49 of the dead will come back to life. Risen, written and directed by Eddie Arya, … Continue reading RISEN
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