On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 13th annual TCM Classic Film Festival (which recently wrapped in Hollywood, California) and the new release, Petite Maman. Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
What does home mean to you? That’s the question Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen poses to Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee on the eve of marrying his boyfriend. Amin has a story from his past to tell. And until he does, there … Continue reading Escape the Virtual/Experience/The Virtual Escape: The 44th Denver Film Festival
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. A young girl’s grandmother has died. So she goes to a cottage in the woods with her mother and father to clean out the house. One day, she, Nelly, wanders into the woods … Continue reading PETITE MAMAN
The allure of a portrait is the suggestion of the secret. Just look at the one of Lisa del Giocondo. We know when she was born, June 15, 1479, and we know Leonardo da Vinci painted her sometime in the … Continue reading PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
For some, equality is a game of mathematics: Clinical, sterile, and dull. But, high up in the Rocky Mountains at the Telluride Film Festival, equality breathes and moves. Here, women dream film, think film, make film, and talk film. And … Continue reading Women Make Film: Dispatches from the 2019 Telluride Film Festival
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