On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Joker, the 35th anniversary of Ghostbusters, and the new 4K restoration of Bird With the Crystal Plumage. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the new Judy Garland bio-pic, Judy, a meta-zombie comedy, One Cut of the Dead, and the Boedecker’s screening of 1976’s Network. Listen to … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the new sci-fi epic, Ad Astra, and a documentary about the epic abilities of mushrooms, Fantastic Fungi. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Art’s producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss highlights from the 46th Telluride Film Festival — Varda By Agnès, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, A Hidden Life, and Women Make Film: A … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I discuss Where’d You Go, Bernadette, The Nightingale, and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM, 1390 … Continue reading
It feels like summer blockbuster season is a little late to the party this year, but Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw makes up for a lot of missed opportunities: Kinetic, bananas, and a hell of a lot of … Continue reading
Metro Art’s producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I sit down to discuss Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood and The Farewell. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM, 1390 AM, and online at kgnu.org. Continue reading
Midsommar is the much-anticipated horror sequel to writer/director Ari Aster’s breakout hit, Hereditary, and with his sophomore effort, Aster swaps a Satanist cult for Swedish pagans but ends up with similarly uneven results. It’s far from a failure, but the movie’s final third left me wanting. Also at Boulder Weekly, the first annual Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoor Film Festival takes over the Dairy Arts Center’s Gordon Gamm Theatre July 10–13. I spoke with programmer Richard Paradise about the festival and previewed a few movies here. BoulderENOFF isn’t the only film festival/film series coming to the Front Range in January. On this week’s edition of … Continue reading This week in Film — MIDSOMMAR
Her first film, La Pointe Courte debuted in 1955; her final, Varda by Agnès, has yet to make its U.S. release, and in between, the incomparable Agnès Varda re-envisioned what cinema could do and say. She has several masterworks under her belt, none more so than her 1985 story of a drifter, Vagabond. For those in the Denver metropolitan area, Vagabond will screen on Wednesday, July 3, 7:15 p.m. at the Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake. For those of you with subscriptions to The Criterion Channel, Vagabond is currently streaming alongside a bevy of Varda features and shorts. And speaking of masters, GKIDS and … Continue reading This week in Film — VAGABOND, Studio Ghibli Fest 2019, and more
Funny thing, movies. Some of them hit you right up front, but then fizzle out in your mind quicker than flat soda. Others, quietly crawl into bed with you, curl up, and stay awhile. For me, Toy Story 4 is firmly in the latter. Watching it was enjoyable and, at times, quite moving. But, the past two weeks since I’ve seen it have been kind. What seemed understated at the time now seems quietly profound. Its development is deep, its ideas are full, and I’m eager to re-visit it again. Until then, this review will have to do. Naturally, I discussed … Continue reading This week in Film — TOY STORY 4
