On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Civil War, now playing theatrically. Continue reading
CHALLENGERS
Within every game, there’s a second game playing out inside the first. We can’t always see it, but it’s often much more significant than the one we’re watching. This is true regardless of your level of involvement with any given … Continue reading CHALLENGERS
CIVIL WAR
What are you boys fighting for? That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote finds it in the story of a Union soldier encountering a beleaguered Confederate rebel, a … Continue reading CIVIL WAR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Marlon Brando’s centenary, which is being celebrated all month long on TCM, and the newly restored All That Money Can Buy available on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
Watching Out Loud: Josh Larsen on Ebert Interruptus 2024: THE BABADOOK
It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.” So said the late film critic Roger Ebert of Cinema Interruptus, the weeklong panel dissecting a movie one shot … Continue reading Watching Out Loud: Josh Larsen on Ebert Interruptus 2024: THE BABADOOK
Reviews of “All That Money Can Buy” and “About Dry Grasses,” and a conversation with Josh Larsen about the 2024 Ebert Interruptus pick: “The Babadook.” Continue reading
ABOUT DRY GRASSES (KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE)
Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in this remote village of perpetual winter with detachment and resentment. Samet’s only friend is a 13-year-old … Continue reading ABOUT DRY GRASSES (KURU OTLAR ÜSTÜNE)
ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
Some people have all the luck, but Jabez Stone is not some people. He’s a New Hampshire farmer with little more to show than the mortgage he owes Miser Stevens. And he’s not the only one: All the farmers in … Continue reading ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Problemista, a dazzling debut from writer/director/actor Julio Torres out now in wide release, and VardaVision, a new series at the Sie Film Center focusing on the films of Agnès Varda. Continue reading
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