On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two to see in virtual theaters: City Hall (CU-Boulder’s International Film Series) and Frida Kahlo (Denver Film Center). Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
Boulder-based filmmaker Jeff Orlowski has a new documentary out on Netflix, The Social Dilemma, about the tech industry—specifically the companies associated with social media. You can probably guess the topics of interest: Undermined democratic processes and the rise of conspiracy theories … Continue reading CHASING CORAL
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the bio-pic Tesla, new to Video On Demand, and Dark Circle, a documentary from 1982 about the dangers of nuclear radiation, which … Continue reading
Three plutonium triggers a day, 720 bombs a year, many of them thousands of times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan. That was the output of the Rocky Flats Plant during its heyday—a factory that produced nuclear weapons … Continue reading DARK CIRCLE
Cinema-going in the time of COVID is sticky business. From shuttered theaters to delayed releases, the business of exhibiting (and seeing) movies is tough getting tougher. And considering that this business model relies on public gatherings, strangers in the dark, … Continue reading This week in Film — See you at the movies? and YOU NEVER HAD IT
Tonight would be a night for Stan Brakhage. When school is in session, the first Sunday of every month belongs to Celebrating Stan at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series. But with no school in session, and no IFS, no Celebrating Stan. … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
Filmmaker extraordinaire Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker) and CU-Boulder International Film Series curator Pablo Kjølseth have a weekly podcast where they talk movies while sipping beer. Since I specialize in both, they were kind enough to invite … Continue reading Cox & Kjølseth
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to talk about what’s coming up at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series, and The Lyric‘s latest, Essential Cinema: South Korea. Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
His name might not be as synonymous with the development of cinematic grammar as Alice Guy-Blaché, Orson Welles, or Jean-Luc Godard, but experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s ripples are still felt in contemporary cinema. From The Act of Seeing With One’s … Continue reading Sunday Streams — BRAKHAGE
Ah, the last few weeks of August. The summer blockbuster season winds down, the cineastes prepare for the fall festival season to kick into gear, and students return to class. And with their return, CU-Boulder’s International Film Series releases their … Continue reading This week in Film — CU’s International Film Series
