On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Another Round, The Changin’ Times of Ike White (both at IFS’ virtual theater), 76 Days (at IFS and Denver Film‘s virtual theater), and Totally … Continue reading
It’s not easy to wrap your head around Ike White. He was a gifted musician at a time when gifted musicians had currency. As one colleague says, “He was in the pocket.” He was also in jail—serving a life sentence … Continue reading THE CHANGIN’ TIMES OF IKE WHITE
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
Divided into three sections: Fear, Flight, and Fate, Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, took an existentialist approach to Blackness in America. It’s right there in the titles of the section, and it’s baked into every frame of the 1951 cinematic adaptation … Continue reading NATIVE SON
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
After a few weeks off from the weekly grind of the newspaper business, I’m back and making up for the absence in running time: 450 minutes, more or less, with the restored release of the Hungarian masterpiece, Sátántangó. Based on … Continue reading This week in Film — SÁTÁNTANGÓ and slow cinema
