On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the movies and themes that defined 2023. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, … Continue reading
I love lists. Lists bring order to my day: what to do, what to watch, what to read, what to listen to. Lists provide context to larger themes and suss out tiny commonalities. The lists I author, be they for … Continue reading 2023: Now and Then
It begins with a birth and ends with a death. In between, a hired gun wanders the streets of Manhattan alone on Christmas while a voice in his head—not his voice—prattles on. The voice refers to him as “you,” “your,” … Continue reading BLAST OF SILENCE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two Christmas releases: The Color Purple and Ferrari. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM … Continue reading
Enzo Ferrari wants to win. Before he was the founder of the Italian luxury car manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. and the similarly named Grand Prix racing team, Ferrari was a driver. But with the birth of his first son, Dino, he … Continue reading FERRARI
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two movies out in theaters right now: Eileen and Poor Things. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM … Continue reading
Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter living in a newly built high-rise on the outskirts of London. Not many residents have … Continue reading ALL OF US STRANGERS
Golden Era Hollywood screenwriter Frank S. Nugent once described story as a disturbance of the status quo: “Something happens to upset it; the disturbance is the story; and the story ends when another status quo is attained.” The Boy and … Continue reading THE BOY AND THE HERON (君たちはどう生きるか)
In 2011, writer/director/essayist Mark Cousins released The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-hour documentary covering the first 100 years of cinema’s story. In 2021, Cousins returned to his monumental work with a new supplement: A New Generation. I spoke with Cousins … Continue reading In Conversation With Mark Cousins
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