Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. There’s something going on in the documentary world, something good. It probably has something to do with the proliferation of prosumer cameras: Home movies look and sound better than ever before. Though the quantity … Continue reading NORTH BY CURRENT
Now playing in-person and virtually, the 44th Denver Film Festival features 230-plus narratives and docs, features and shorts, series and music videos, many of them in the Centennial State. Among those featured in the Colorado Shorts program: Ghost Dogs, the latest from … Continue reading Joe Cappa on GHOST DOGS
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. It opens with Mina (Maryam Moghadam) sitting in the passenger’s seat while a single tear rolls down her cheek. The movie will end with another car ride with a single tear running down Mina’s … Continue reading BALLAD OF A WHITE COW (قصیده گاو سفید)
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. It opens with sex: Explicit, hardcore sex in the bedroom. The woman before the camera is Emilia (Katia Pascariu), a teacher at a local private school. The man holding the camera is Eugene (Stefan … Continue reading BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 44th Denver Film Festival‘s opening night film, Spencer, one from the Colorado Spotlight sidebar, The Sleeping Negro, and another playing Women+Film, Ballad of … Continue reading
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. With a nod to the writings of James Baldwin, Skinner Myers’ The Sleeping Negro consists of two conversations about race and revolution punctuated by a call to action and the dramatic rendering of theoretical decisions. In … Continue reading THE SLEEPING NEGRO
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. At first blush, Paris, 13th District appears to be a collection of short stories. It starts with Camille (Makita Samba) meeting Émilie (Lucie Zhang). He is looking for a room to rent, and she is looking … Continue reading PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT (LES OLYMPIADES)
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. When it comes to cinematic landscapes, few are as iconic—or at least as mined—as Monument Valley. Located in northern Arizona, home to the Navajo Nation, Monument Valley was placed in the geography of cinema … Continue reading THE TAKING
Reporting from the Denver Film Festival. Rysûke Hamaguchi’s cinematic adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story, “Drive My Car,” opens with another Murakami short story, also taken from the collections Men Without Women. The story is “Scheherazade,” about a social worker’s weekly … Continue reading DRIVE MY CAR (ドライブ・マイ・カー)
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