Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. —Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globe acceptance speech. On May 25, 2019, Bong Joon-ho, the 49-year-old filmmaker from Daegu, South Korea, ascended the stairs … Continue reading Essential Cinema: South Korea
In addition to the praise and accolades each year’s Oscar nominations bring, there’s a fair amount of teeth-gnashing and viewers crying foul. A stupid movie got too much. Another didn’t get enough. My favorite didn’t get anything. On and on … Continue reading Cinema on the Shorter Side: 2020 Oscar Nominated Short Films
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss The Cave and plenty of other Oscar-nominated movies. Wanna catch up with some of them before the awards ceremony on Feb. 9? Click … Continue reading
On Monday, Jan. 13, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced their nominations for this year’s Oscars. Out of the 53 movies nominated, Joker leads the pack with 11 nominations. The Irishman and Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood … Continue reading Oscars 2020
All the best movies elicit our emotions—Roger Ebert famously called these movies “empathy machines”—but there is a fine line between an emotion earned and an emotion provoked. Movies that hopscotch across this line are what many dub “Oscar-bait” and the … Continue reading Big Emotions in Small Packages: 2019 Oscar Nominated Short Films
Meet Zain (Zain Al Rafeea), a 12-year-old boy incarcerated in a Beirut jail for stabbing—as he says—“a sonofabitch.” “You stabbed someone,” the judge clarifies, softening the young man’s testimony. “Yes,” Zain responds. “A sonofabitch.” Well, what else do you call … Continue reading CAPERNAUM (کفرناحوم)
Instead of using that tired old cliché, “Big things come in small packages,” let’s rely on another one; one a little more apropos to this year’s Academy Awards: Little things often lead to bigger things. Case in point: Irish playwright-turned-filmmaker … Continue reading And the Award Goes To… 2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films
It’s Oscar season at the movies, and that means celebrating the cinematic high-water marks that 2016 brought. And with 62 nominated films to choose from, there is ample opportunity to discover something new for everyone. More often than not, the … Continue reading Salute Your Shorts: 2017 Oscar Nominated Short Films
It may be Hollywood’s biggest night, but the Academy Awards are much more than a TV show that trots out Hollywood’s elite and validates a life spent making movies. In a very real sense, those little statues open big doors. … Continue reading Big Movies Come in Small Films: 2016 Oscar Nominated Short Films
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