On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new documentary featuring Martin Scorsese discussing the films and careers of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers, Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger. Continue reading
Loving cinema is a one-way street. Oh, I love movies. Hell, I love certain movies more than some of the people in my life. But I realize that adoration isn’t reciprocated. I Know Where I’m Going! doesn’t give a damn … Continue reading MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER
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 30 years ago this April that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) first signed on the air. Truly, it wasn’t that big of a deal then: AMC still stood for American Movie Classics, public broadcasting stations re-ran old movies either … Continue reading “To Build a Better World Together” Dispatch from the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival
Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year. My top 10 is relatively familiar at this point, but the sheer breadth … Continue reading SENSES OF CINEMA: 2023 World Cinema Poll
On Friday, Jan. 5, the Denver Film Critics Society—19 writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2023. In total, 33 movies received nominations, with … Continue reading And the nominees are…
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch—later rechristened Mean Streets—he hardly thought he was changing how movies would look and move. The kid who grew up on Elizabeth Street in … Continue reading MEAN STREETS
Thoughts on Martin Scorsese’s latest, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Continue reading
Every April, tiny flowers spread like confetti across the blackjack hills of Oklahoma. This is Osage Territory—land carved out and granted to the Osage Nation in the 19th century after they were forced out of Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas. Here … Continue reading KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
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