Live from the 50th Telluride Film Festival. Continue reading
Celebrating Stan 20 Years On
Few figures loom as large in CU’s history as Stan Brakhage. As a filmmaker, his influence on the visual medium is incalculable—even if he’s not commonly known. (Brakhage is to cinema what The Velvet Underground was to rock ’n’ roll.) … Continue reading Celebrating Stan 20 Years On
What do “Drylongso” and The Ranown Westerns have in common? Find out on this week’s After Image. Continue reading
Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner: DRYLONGSO and The Ranown Westerns
Pica (Toby Smith) is an Oakland college student taking Polaroids in a photography class devoted to 35 mm. “I came here to learn how to express myself,” she tells the teacher (Salim Akil). “You gotta have a 35 mm camera … Continue reading Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner: DRYLONGSO and The Ranown Westerns
Thoughts on the fourth annual Mimesis Documentary Festival. Continue reading
National Film Registry 2023 Nominations Ballot
As you read this, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) are currently pounding the pavement in New York and Los Angeles, raising signs and rhyming chants to anyone who will … Continue reading National Film Registry 2023 Nominations Ballot
This is Us: Previewing the 2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival
What is the story of us? That’s a question many movies try to answer, sometimes with the “us” meaning you and me, sometimes with the “us” meaning everyone. Few ever get there, but it’s still a question worth asking, whether … Continue reading This is Us: Previewing the 2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival
A COMPASSIONATE SPY
At 18, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Ted was a thoughtful man, though a terrible soldier. As his wife Joan recounts, Hall hated the Army-issued hat he had to wear and … Continue reading A COMPASSIONATE SPY
Thoughts on the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, “Mutant Mayhem,” and a preview of CinemaQ at the Sie Film Center. Continue reading
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