On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the passing of James Caan and highlight one of my favorite Caan performances, 1981’s Thief. Turning now to the present, the Boulder Environmental/Nature/Outdoors Film … Continue reading
The man is silent. He removes a welder’s helmet and reveals his face: tired, soaked in sweat and soot. He pulls a chair to the center of the room and sits, taking a cigarette out and lighting it. A crinkle … Continue reading THIEF
March might be the best month for Boulder moviegoers. From the smattering of archival prints unspooling at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series to the delightfully bizarre and thought-provoking images beaming from the Brakhage Center Symposium (March 14-15). From regional premieres and … Continue reading Hometown Heroes: Previewing the 2020 Boulder Jewish Film Festival
Some movies never grow old. They exist outside of time and space, always there, always waiting for us to return. Case in point: The Godfather Part I and II. Director Francis Ford Coppola’s saga tells the story of the Corleone crime family, whose evolution … Continue reading THE GODFATHER
Michael J. Cinema 