They tried to warn us, but the lesson didn’t take. Released in 2006, writer-director Mike Judge’s Idiocracy was offloaded into theaters and damn near buried by distributor 20th Century Fox. In another world, Idiocracy would have come and gone with … Continue reading Cue the Projector: Previewing the Spring 2025 International Film Series
This weekend, you could celebrate the 70th anniversary of Seven Samurai—“one of the most thrilling movie epics of all time,” according to esteemed film critic, Roger Ebert. Next week, it could be a quiet but powerful drama starring Dakota Johnson … Continue reading Cinematic Staple: Previewing the Fall 2024 International Film Series
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released International Film Series fall calendar and TCM’s new series, Making Change: The Most Significant Political Films of All Time. Continue reading
Former CU professor and current filmmaker Alex Cox is gearing up to make his final feature. “I don’t want it to be my last movie,” Cox says. “It’s just that it very well may be the case. It’s been seven … Continue reading Go West! Alex Cox on Making His Last Movie and the Re-Release of His First
In case you somehow haven’t heard, the Sundance Film Festival might be coming to Boulder in 2027. “The Sundance Film Festival has a deep history in the Mountain West, and we can think of no better home for its next … Continue reading Coming Attraction? Unpacking Boulder’s bid for the Sundance Film Festival
This joy is immense. This hope is infinite. Yet … all is vain and ephemeral. Those words, spoken in whispered voiceover, express one of the closing thoughts of Cette maison, a movie bursting with ideas and insights. Written and directed … Continue reading Screened Reality: Previewing the 2024 Mimesis Documentary Festival
It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.” So said the late film critic Roger Ebert of Cinema Interruptus, the weeklong panel dissecting a movie one shot … Continue reading Watching Out Loud: Josh Larsen on Ebert Interruptus 2024: THE BABADOOK
There are no small parts in movies—only those that are long and those that are short. That was the philosophy British filmmaker Michael Powell ascribed to. It’s one worth keeping in mind anytime you watch a movie, but it’s especially … Continue reading Short Kings: 2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the newly released CU-Boulder’s International Film Series spring calendar and what to see, thoughts on the 40th Sundance Film Festival, and musings about the nature of documentary movies. Continue reading
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