On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a new documentary streaming on Max, Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play., and documentaries that have fun with the fluidity of the form: Orson Welles’ F for Fake, Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s A Moment of Innocence, Martin Scorsese’s The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story, even Abbas Kiarostami’s fiction/nonfiction hybrid: And Life Goes On… Continue reading
It was the mirrors that caught my attention. I hadn’t seen Jeremy O. Harris’ groundbreaking Slave Play, but Charles McNulty’s review in the Los Angeles Times heralding the West Coast premiere made me very curious. A stage with mirrors behind … Continue reading SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY.
I don’t even know where to begin. The Matrix Resurrections feels like such a poorly conceived project, approached with such utter cynicism and flimsy execution, that the more I think about it, the less I like it. Any ideas about these characters … Continue reading THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS
So much tragedy in your life. Those words are spoken in jail from one murderer to another. The two men are different: One is convicted and wearing a state-issued jumpsuit. The other is also wearing a suit. Only his is … Continue reading THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK
Mike’s cowboyin’ days are behind him. A lot of days are behind him, really, but he has one sizeable favor still hanging out there, and Howard has come to cash in. Howard has a son stuck in Mexico, and the … Continue reading CRY MACHO
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new documentaries that make for one heck of a double feature: In the Same Breath (streaming now on HBO Max) and Bring Your … Continue reading
On this edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Undine (currently in limited release) and In the Heights (now in wide release and on HBO Max until July 11). Listen to After Image, Fridays … Continue reading
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
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