In 1985, Jean-Luc Godard—the enfant terrible of the French New Wave—and the Israeli producer Menahem Golan signed a contract on a cocktail napkin: the story of King Lear, written by Norman Mailer, filmed by Godard, ready for the following year’s … Continue reading KING LEAR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading
It’s like a grade school love note: Do you like me? (check one)□ Yes□ No♡ Maybe And right now, Boulder is still waiting patiently for a reply. On Jan. 23, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival got underway with no announcement … Continue reading No News is Good News? Dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
When it comes to westerns, 1950 was a banner year. More than 125 features were released that year—a high-water mark the genre would never again see—and many would become emblematic of the genre: John Ford’s Wagon Master, Henry King’s The … Continue reading WINCHESTER ’73
A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks. “I’m going to kill myself,” the woman says. “And I want you to be in the room next door when I do.” That … Continue reading THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
Though he never had the cross-Atlantic success of rivals Oasis or a stateside post-boy band solo career à la Ricky Martin coming out of Menudo, Robbie Williams was a massive pop star at a time when Britpop was all the … Continue reading BETTER MAN
For Bruce Springsteen, it was the starting snare shot of “Like a Rolling Stone” that kicked open the door to his mind. He’s not wrong. And he’s not alone. That iconic Bob Dylan song has and will stand the test … Continue reading A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
Leo Fife, an acclaimed Canadian documentarian, is rapidly withering away from cancer. With his few remaining breaths, he would like to tell his story. It’s a story no one else fully knows—maybe not even Leo himself. “You can’t do this,” … Continue reading OH, CANADA
It’s been 25 years since the world ended. Some sort of climate catastrophe is what did it, and the only survivors we know of are Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton), Son (George MacKay), their Doctor (Lennie James), Butler (Tim … Continue reading THE END
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