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
Category: Reviews
RISEN
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
IN THE SAME BREATH and BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE
On Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced that eight individuals were arrested in conjunction with spreading rumors about a new form of pneumonia. Twenty-two days later, … Continue reading IN THE SAME BREATH and BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE
SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF
You know the movies, you might even know the hands and minds behind them: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Putney Swoop, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Swept Away, Z. But do you know the name of the man who distributed them? Who created … Continue reading SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF
ASHES AND DIAMONDS (POPIÓL I DIAMENT)
Two men wait outside a church. They are armed and tasked with an assassination mission. The mark approaches, and the men leap into action, gunning their target down as he opens the doors to the chapel. Mission accomplished. The date: … Continue reading ASHES AND DIAMONDS (POPIÓL I DIAMENT)
SWAN SONG
Once upon a time, Pat Pitsenbarger was the bon vivant of his small Ohio town. The “Liberace of Sandusky,” one resident calls him. Pat was a hairdresser, and he was responsible for all the socialites of Sandusky. Then his star … Continue reading SWAN SONG
SABAYA
Located in Northern Iraq, the Yazidi Home Center houses the Yazidi—a Kurdish minority religion with monotheistic roots in the pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. In 2014, Daesh (ISIS) killed and abducted thousands of Yazidi women and girls, imprisoning them and selling them … Continue reading SABAYA
ANNETTE
Annette begins with a proclamation: “Breathing will not be tolerated.” What follows is meant to be taken in whole. For if you were to take it bit by bit, the whole thing would fall apart. Only totality can save Annette. Though I’m … Continue reading ANNETTE
PIG
Deep in the Oregonian woods, a man lives with his pig. He is a recluse with a past; she is a Kunekune with a gorgeous ginger coat. Together they hunt truffles, which are all the rage down in Portland. In … Continue reading PIG
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