On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 21st Boulder International Film Festival and pick four to see at this year’s fest: The Friend, The White House Effect, In Waves and War, and One to One: John & Yoko. Continue reading
The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) turns 21 this year. If it were a person, it could order a drink. Frankly, BIFF could probably use one, with the sword of Sundance hanging over its head. And while questions of film … Continue reading BIFF Marches On: Previewing the 2025 Boulder International Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 97th Academy Awards, and pick two that I’m rooting for: Flow and Incident. Continue reading
You might not believe it, but the Academy Awards mean a lot. Sure, it’s nice to be nominated, but winning that 8.5-pound golden statue—designed by the great MGM art director Cedric Gibbons and, allegedly, modeled after a nude sketch of … Continue reading FLOW and INCIDENT: Two First-Time Nominees to Root for at the 2025 Oscars
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about CU-Boulder’s International Film Series Black History Month lineup and Thick as Thieves, the upcoming repertory screening series at the Sie FilmCenter. Continue reading
Kelly Sears isn’t impatient, but she’s eager for the 2025 Brakhage Symposium to begin. “I’m ready to hit play and see it unfold,” the CU Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts associate professor and filmmaker says. She’s not alone. For … Continue reading ‘New Forms of Cinema.’ Previewing the 2025 Brakhage Symposium
Though he’s from the jungles of Peru, Paddington is British through and through. Sent to London by his kind and wise Aunt Lucy, the orphaned bear was adopted by the Brown family, named after the train station where they found … Continue reading PADDINGTON IN PERU
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 No Other Land, now playing a limited engagement at the Sie FilmCenter, and Tromeo and Juliet, playing Feb. 14 and 15 at the Dairy … Continue reading
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