On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to preview the 42nd Denver Film Festival. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM, 1390 AM, … Continue reading
This week in FILM — 42nd Denver Film Festival and US
The 42nd Denver Film Festival kicked off October 30 with a tribute to former artistic director Brit Withey. The festival runs through November 10 and features over 250 features and shorts. For the Weekly, I highlighted a couple to check … Continue reading This week in FILM — 42nd Denver Film Festival and US
Blu Tuesday: NEW YORK STORIES
Released in 1989, New York Stories is an omnibus film, three shorts stitched together by a city. And though two of the directors’ oeuvres are inseparable from the city streets, tenements, and high rises that dot the New York skyline, it is … Continue reading Blu Tuesday: NEW YORK STORIES
Sunday Streams — HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE
New Zealand filmmaker Taiki Waititi really likes working with kids. Yes, there’s something amusing about a kid trying to act years beyond their age — or, at least, speak like it — and there’s something revealing about a child playacting … Continue reading Sunday Streams — HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the underlying problems with the new Nazi comedy, Jojo Rabbit, the magnificence of The Lighthouse, and two can’t miss programs for Boulderites: Sans Souci … Continue reading
This week in FILM — JOJO RABBIT and DFF’s Brit Withey tribute
Winner of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award, Jojo Rabbit, is funny as hell, but somewhat misguided. What do you do when satire lacks conviction? I wonder what Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey would have made … Continue reading This week in FILM — JOJO RABBIT and DFF’s Brit Withey tribute
THE LIGHTHOUSE
As the story goes, the titan Prometheus so loved man that he stole fire from Mount Olympus and brought it to Earth for all to use. And for that theft, Zeus chained Prometheus the rock and commanded an eagle to … Continue reading THE LIGHTHOUSE
Blu Tuesday: OUR HOSPITALITY
Buster Keaton was destined for the silver screen before moving pictures were even born. As the story goes, an 18-month-old (or was that six-month-old?) Keaton took a tumble down a flight of stairs and didn’t make a sound. “That’s some … Continue reading Blu Tuesday: OUR HOSPITALITY
On this week’s episode of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Kino Lorber‘s newest Blu-ray boxset, Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection, and highlight a few horror movies to catch this week around the Front … Continue reading
Sunday Streams — BRAKHAGE
His name might not be as synonymous with the development of cinematic grammar as Alice Guy-Blaché, Orson Welles, or Jean-Luc Godard, but experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s ripples are still felt in contemporary cinema. From The Act of Seeing With One’s … Continue reading Sunday Streams — BRAKHAGE
