On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Blue Bayou (now playing in theaters), recap the Telluride Film Festival, and identify some themes coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Listen … Continue reading
Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker want you to know that God loves you—yes, he does. Their message is simple and humble, but they are anything but. They want to be on TV: she as a singer, he as a preacher. … Continue reading THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE
Gonna see my baby againGonna be with some of my friendsMaybe I’ll feel better againOn Blue Bayou That song, written by Joe Melson and Roy Orbison and sung halfway through Blue Bayou, encapsulates more consumable sadness than is probably healthy. Yet, … Continue reading BLUE BAYOU
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. There’s been a shooting at the school. Those might be the worst words a parent can hear. Words too many parents have heard in recent years. Amy Carr (Naomi Watts) hears them while … Continue reading LAKEWOOD
Mike’s cowboyin’ days are behind him. A lot of days are behind him, really, but he has one sizeable favor still hanging out there, and Howard has come to cash in. Howard has a son stuck in Mexico, and the … Continue reading CRY MACHO
Norman Jewison: A Director’s Lifeby Ira WellsSutherland House, 455 pp., Hardcover, $28.95 ($34.95 Canada)Available now Chances are when you think of the films and filmmakers of the New Hollywood Cinema, Jewison is not the name that comes to mind first. … Continue reading NORMAN JEWISON: A DIRECTOR’S LIFE
Reporting from the Telluride Film Festival. It opens with him in bed. Mark Cousins loves movies. He loves looking at movies, talking about movies, and making movies. He’s one of cinema’s greatest enthusiasts, so to find him turning the camera … Continue reading THE STORY OF LOOKING
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. There were cookbooks before Julia Child penned Mastering the Art of French Cooking with Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck, but not like this. And I’m sure there was someone cooking on camera before Julia made … Continue reading JULIA
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. I want to be alone. So said Greta Garbo, an icon of the screen and one of the more reclusive celebrities of the 20th century. Its pithiness fit her persona like a glove. … Continue reading ALONERS (혼자 사는 사람들)
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