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
Filmmaker extraordinaire Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker) and CU-Boulder International Film Series curator Pablo Kjølseth have a weekly podcast where they talk movies while sipping beer. Since I specialize in both, they were kind enough to invite … Continue reading Cox & Kjølseth
On this week’s edition of After Image, I talk with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a slew of new releases via virtual theaters: Trolls World Tour, The Booksellers (partnering with the Sie Film Center in Denver), Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The … Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to talk about what’s coming up at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series, and The Lyric‘s latest, Essential Cinema: South Korea. Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
His name might not be as synonymous with the development of cinematic grammar as Alice Guy-Blaché, Orson Welles, or Jean-Luc Godard, but experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s ripples are still felt in contemporary cinema. From The Act of Seeing With One’s … Continue reading Sunday Streams — BRAKHAGE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss After the Wedding, The Chambermaid and preview the recently released International Film Series Fall calendar. Listen to After Image every Friday at 3:00 p.m. on … Continue reading
Ah, the last few weeks of August. The summer blockbuster season winds down, the cineastes prepare for the fall festival season to kick into gear, and students return to class. And with their return, CU-Boulder’s International Film Series releases their … Continue reading This week in Film — CU’s International Film Series
Mamma Roma, or: The past you will always have with you. Thirty-three years separated its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and a stateside theatrical release, but now Mamma‘s back and better than ever. CU-Boulder’s International Film Series screens Mamma Roma on 35mm with a special introduction from Film Studies professor Sabrina Negri. Continue reading This week in Film — MAMMA ROMA
This week at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series, programmer extraordinaire, Pablo Kjolseth, has Terrence Malick’s first five films — Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life — on 35mm with special introductions. Yours truly will be introducing Badlands on Monday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. The world is bigger than you think. Continue reading This week in Arts & Culture — Malick at IFS
