They needn’t have bothered. Jungle Cruise, Disney’s latest live-action cinematic adaptation of a theme park ride, was already a classic Hollywood adventure before it became a pun-laden excursion down African and Asian rivers. That movie was 1951’s The African Queen, the key … Continue reading JUNGLE CRUISE
There’s a Green Knight in King Arthur’s court, and he wants to play a game—a Christmas game. The rules are simple: Whoever is “boldest of blood and wildest of heart step forth, take up arms and try with honor to … Continue reading THE GREEN KNIGHT
Bill Baker (Matt Damon) is no Philip Marlowe. He thinks he is, and with a bit of training, he might be. But he’s not there yet. You see, his daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), is incarcerated in a French prison for … Continue reading STILLWATER
A man has spent 15 years in prison. On the day of his release, his friends take him out, get him loaded, and drop him off at the local church that will house him until he gets his feet under … Continue reading LORELEI
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Old, now in theaters, and Working Girls, recently restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
Old is obsessed with time. It doesn’t have much to say about it, except that it passes quickly. In one scene, two 6-year-olds are standing in the surf when the first kid admits to the second that he has no friends. … Continue reading OLD
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and Heston had already played Moses and Judah Ben-Hur (he won an Oscar for that one). Box … Continue reading MAJOR DUNDEE
Why isn’t Moholy as common a household name as Picasso? Or Magritte?” That’s the central question behind The New Bauhaus, and documentarian Alysa Nahmias asks it twice: First in the front, at the point when you’re starting to wonder who Moholy … Continue reading THE NEW BAUHAUS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the reopening of the Boedecker Theater, the return of the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival, The Loneliest Whale: The Search for … Continue reading
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