After Image: June 27, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies in theaters: Elio and F1: The Movie. Continue reading After Image: June 27, 2025
F1: The Movie
Sure, he’s handsome, but can he drive? You bet. His name is Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), and he can drop behind the wheel of a Formula One racecar, take it for a spin and tell you exactly what’s wrong with … Continue reading F1: The Movie
After Image: June 20, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, out now in theaters, and discuss the nature of remakes thanks to two new restorations and releases from The Criterion Collection: 1953’s Wages of Fear and 1977’s Sorcerer. Continue reading After Image: June 20, 2025
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Two nations are at war—so long now that no one living might even know why. All they know are the losses each side has suffered, which are many, and the extent to which they are willing to win, which is … Continue reading HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Dad Strangelove: Nile Southern on Terry Southern
Once upon a time, American letters were full of subversives, satirists, and provocateurs. They made you laugh. They made you think. They changed how you saw the world. The best of them made you uncomfortable within safe spaces and made … Continue reading Dad Strangelove: Nile Southern on Terry Southern
CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (风流一代)
Caught By the Tides isn’t your typical movie. It’s an assembly of previously shot footage directed by Jia Zhange-ke, all of them starring his wife, actress Tao Zhao, over three decades. In one aspect, these are the odds and ends, … Continue reading CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (风流一代)
After Image: June 6, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two collections you can now stream on The Criterion Channel: Terry Southern: Hollywood’s Most Subversive Screenwriter and Directed by Jia Zhangke. Continue reading After Image: June 6, 2025
Women+Film: Julia Stiles on WISH YOU WERE HERE
After 30 years in front of the camera, actress Julia Stiles has taken on a new position in cinema: director. “It was a revelation,” Stiles said at the 2025 Women+Film Festival in May. “The messaging when you’re an actress, predominantly, … Continue reading Women+Film: Julia Stiles on WISH YOU WERE HERE
BRING HER BACK
What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable—even for those who haven’t … Continue reading BRING HER BACK
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