On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Frank Borzage—the recipient of the first Best Director Oscar. One of his signature films, History is Made at Night has been recently restored and … Continue reading
Nowadays we call them noir, but back in the 1940s and ’50s they didn’t have a name. Born out of 1930s hard-boiled novels and an influx of European filmmakers fleeing fascism, films noir (as French film critics later coined them) were … Continue reading THE FURIES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Courier (available now On Demand), Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (playing Denver Film’s Women+Film Festival), and The Furies, out on Blu-ray and DVD from … Continue reading
When Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club hit shelves in 1989, more than one reviewer interpreted the narrative’s central tension between mothers and daughters as autobiography. And when the movie adaptation came out in 1993—cowritten by Tan—those assumptions multiplied. That happens with … Continue reading AMY TAN: UNINTENDED MEMOIR
Located next to the butcher’s shop, down the row from the local pub, Deadly Cuts is the hair salon where the women of Piglinstown, Dublin, congregate. It’s a safe space in a rundown town that never feels safe. The gangs, … Continue reading DEADLY CUTS
Every year, CU-Boulder’s International Film Series screens all 15 movies nominated in the short subject categories for the Academy Awards. This year, no surprise here, they’re all playing virtually. So it seemed fitting that IFS programmer Pablo Kjølseth and I … Continue reading Z-Brief: Oscar Nominated Short Subjects
Lyz Lopez started skiing when she was 4. Who knows what first drew her to the sport, but 11 years on the slopes have shaped Lyz the prodigy into Lyz the competitor. She’s 15 now, and with proper instruction, she … Continue reading SLALOM
Ernest Hemingway: Few writers have had a greater impact on American letters. Trained as a journalist, Hemingway developed and popularized terse prose, the theory of omission, and an obsession with capturing that which is true. And it didn’t matter the … Continue reading HEMINGWAY
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Hemingway, the latest PBS documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and pick out a few highlight for this year’s Women+Film Festival, screening virtually … Continue reading
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