On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a new documentary streaming on Max, Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., and documentaries that have fun with the fluidity of the form: Orson Welles’ F for Fake, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence, Martin Scorsese’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, even Abbas Kiarostami’s fiction/nonfiction hybrid: And Life Goes On… Continue reading
It was the mirrors that caught my attention. I hadn’t seen Jeremy O. Harris’ groundbreaking Slave Play, but Charles McNulty’s review in the Los Angeles Times heralding the West Coast premiere made me very curious. A stage with mirrors behind … Continue reading SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY.
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new horror/murder-mystery, Longlegs (out now in theaters), and the new time-travel romance, The Greatest Hits (on Hulu and Disney+). Continue reading
The first thing you see is a house inside a boxy frame with rounded edges, like a 16 mm home movie. It’s winter, Jan. 14 to be precise, and a young girl is turning 9 years old. She thinks she’s … Continue reading LONGLEGS
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, few hold fascination with artists and audiences quite like The Tragedie of Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet has the romance and Hamlet has the speech, but Macbeth—first published in 1623—is filled with control, corruption, and comeuppance. There’s … Continue reading MACBETH
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about MaXXXine (out now in theaters) and the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival, screening July 11-14 at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder. Continue reading
Maxine Minx always knew she was going to be a star. Her father did, too, but that’s another story in itself. Elizabeth Bender (Elizabeth Debicki) sees Maxine’s star power. Tasked with directing The Puritan II, Bender has auteurist aspirations and … Continue reading MAXXXINE
Now in its sixth year, the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival (Boulder ENOFF) has become a summer staple. Screening July 11-14 at the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder ENOFF rolls out the green carpet for four days of … Continue reading Passing the Baton: Sarah Keo on the 2024 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
There’s not a lot of life left in the Despicable Me franchise. Gru (voiced by Steve Carrell) has renounced his villainous ways, joined the Anti-Villain League as a spy, adopted his girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes … Continue reading DESPICABLE ME 4
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