On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the latest from Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Cloud, and cover three more festivals and series dotting the Front Range: Mimesis Documentary Festival at the Dairy Arts Center, Summer Silent Series at Chautauqua Auditorium, and Reel to Real with History Colorado and the Sie FilmCenter. Continue reading After Image: Aug. 1, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Zola, out now in limited release, Pickup on South Street (recently restored and on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection), and Safety Last!, … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Criterion’s latest 4K restoration, The Cameraman, and suggest a few silent films you can stream if you’re missing Chautauqua’s annual Summer of Silents. … Continue reading
It’s mid-June, which means we ought to be full swing into Chautauqua’s Summer of Silents—the annual celebration of cinema sans dialogue. And whether they’re accompanied by the incomparable Hank Troy or the impressive Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, spending a … Continue reading Home Viewing: Silent Clowns
Still wonderful, isn’t it? And no dialogue. We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces. There just aren’t any faces like that anymore. — Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard Of all the faces to grace the silver screen, none were greater or … Continue reading COLLEGE
Another summer is upon us, and that means it’s time for another season of silent film at Chautauqua. For those unfamiliar with the silent era, a quick primer: Movies didn’t always talk. True, we now call them silent movies, but … Continue reading Send in the Clowns: Chautauqua Silent Film Series (2017)
Coloradoans haven’t been lacking for silent film lately. Whether it’s Howie Movshovitz presenting Sunrise at this year’s Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder, or the Denver Silent Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse in April, the kings and … Continue reading A Life Alongside the Movies: Hank Troy on the 2016 Chautauqua Silent Film Series
The movies started small. So small that only one person at a time could watch them. The year was 1892, and Thomas Edison and his colleague William Kennedy Laurie Dickson discovered that if you spun sequential photographs in a small … Continue reading Tom Hart and Rodney Sauer on Colorado Chautauqua’s 2015 Silent Film Series
There once was a time in the not-too-distant cinematic past when the world was still largely undiscovered, and areas of the planet were a mystery to modern man. What beasts lived on these islands? What creatures were in these jungles? … Continue reading THE LOST WORLD
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