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
The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Tromeo and Juliet, Cannibal! The Musical, Surf Nazis Must Die, the list goes on. Even if you haven’t seen them, you’ve probably heard of them. They’re legendary movies in cult circles, … Continue reading Mathew Klickstein on LLOYD KAUFMAN: INTERVIEWS
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
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my favorite film of 2024, Nickel Boys, out now in limited release, and the newly restored western classic, Wichester ’73, available from The Criterion … Continue reading
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