On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Bring Her Back, The Phoenician Scheme, and preview the Sie FilmCenter’s June program: Science Friction. Continue reading After Image: May 30, 2025
The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme—the latest from director Wes Anderson—come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there. By the beginning, I don’t mean the actual opening … Continue reading THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, out now in theaters, and the 16th Women+Film Festival, which will play the Sie FilmCenter May 30-June 1. Continue reading After Image for the weekend of May 23, 2025
Some topics never go out of fashion. We really wish they would, but we never seem to be that lucky. On June 1, the Women+Film Festival will host a community conversation: The Makings of a Moral Panic (10 a.m.), exploring … Continue reading Wish You Were Here: Previewing the 2025 Women+Film Festival
For the past 30 years, Ethan Hunt has had a choice. “Your mission, if you choose to accept.” And he accepts; he always does. But what if Hunt never had a choice to start with? I guess the choice: “Yes … Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the two new restorations from The Criterion Collection: Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising Continue reading
Everybody has a friend like Withnail. And everybody’s worked for a Denis. That’s easy to see. It gets harder when, one day, you stare into the mirror and see either of them looking back. When that day comes, it’s time … Continue reading WITHNAIL AND I and HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
They don’t make ’em like they used to. That’s a line you’re bound to hear anytime you talk to someone fixated on the yesteryears of cinema. Their position: Movies are a paradise lost. But if you know even the surface … Continue reading Grand Illusions: Dispatch from the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 16th TCM Classic Film Festival and preview the Sie Film Center’s May retrospective series, Bruce Lee and Beyond. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
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