To hold a meteorite is to place an object older than the history of humanity in your hand. It’s also to touch a truly foreign object. Where it came from and how long it took to get here, we cannot … Continue reading FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS
If you tuned into this week’s edition of After Image, then you’ve already heard my disappointment with Ammonite—the new romantic drama from British filmmaker Francis Lee. I have many issues with the movie, but one of the main sticking points came with … Continue reading JOYCE AT 34
Kino Now (an on-demand streaming service by the good folks at Kino Lorber) celebrated its anniversary this past October. To mark the occasion, they’re making eight films free to stream with the promo code KNBDAY until Nov. 15. The films: Beanpole, Boy, … Continue reading DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Martin Eden is one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, and it got me thinking about one of the best movies I saw last year: Transit. Christian Petzold is one of those directors who has my number, and his latest, Undine, … Continue reading TRANSIT
For 50 years, Agnès Varda lived on Paris’ Rue Daguerre, a quiet street of merchants not far from Montparnasse. She saw the men and women (mostly husbands and wives) who ran the shops, cut the hair, baked the bread, and … Continue reading DAGUERRÉOTYPES
Boulder-based filmmaker Jeff Orlowski has a new documentary out on Netflix, The Social Dilemma, about the tech industry—specifically the companies associated with social media. You can probably guess the topics of interest: Undermined democratic processes and the rise of conspiracy theories … Continue reading CHASING CORAL
Cinematographer Michael Chapman died on Sept. 20, 2020. He was 84. We hadn’t heard or seen much of Chapman recently (his last credit was Bridge to Terabithia in 2007), but Chapman was king in the 1970s and ’80s. Chapman’s first credit as … Continue reading TAXI DRIVER
The Argentinian filmmaker, Lucrecia Martel, knows a thing or two about heat. Hot, sweltering heat. It suffocates every frame of her debut La cinéaga (2001)—a spectacular film that also happens to terribly unsettling to watch—and it practically steams the lens in Zama, her … Continue reading ZAMA
She lives in Astoria, but she works in the City. That means the company car picks her up long before the sun has a chance to crack the horizon. And like most administration assistants, she’s the first in, last out, … Continue reading THE ASSISTANT
The Second World War was fought on the land, in the air, and on the sea. And in the Atlantic Ocean, there is a space just out of range of Allied air forces. Here, only sea vessels go: “The Black … Continue reading GREYHOUND
