On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about A Thousand and One, the newly released winner of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize; a new documentary about an … Continue reading
Harold Lloyd’s Glasses character was a real go-getter. The middle-class boy next door could accomplish anything he put his mind to. And it made him immensely popular with the rah-rah-rah mentality of the Roaring Twenties. 1923’s Safety Last! might be his best, … Continue reading SAFETY LAST!
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
If great comedy must involve something beyond laughter,” film critic James Agee writes, “Lloyd was not a great comedian. If plain laughter is any criterion—and it is a healthy counterbalance to the other—few people have equaled him, and nobody has … Continue reading SPEEDY
Known as “the third genius,” Harold Lloyd did not have the same background in vaudeville as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton; yet, he ended up making more movies than both of them combined. Lloyd started his career as a Chaplin … Continue reading THE FRESHMAN
This Friday, Marvel Studios releases Avengers: Infinity Wars, a massive movie that will, reportedly, tie up 10 years and 18 installments worth of narrative threads and character arcs in one ear-ringing, eyeball-searing, two-hour-and-30-minute extravaganza. The geek may not inherit the Earth, … Continue reading Enjoy the Silence: Previewing the 2018 Denver Silent Film Festival
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)
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