CU-Boulder’s International Film Series returns January 26 with a free 35 mm screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Between tomorrow night screening and May 2’s presentation of the Indian spectacle RRR, there are more than 50 programs to … Continue reading Back on the Big Screen
On Monday, January 9, the Denver Film Critics Society—15 writers and broadcasters working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2022. In total, 38 movies received nominations, with Everything Everywhere … Continue reading And the nominees are…
Lydia Tár is broken. Pulled from the podium, kicked out of her Berlin apartment, barred from seeing her daughter, the disgraced conductor returns to her family house on Long Island, pokes around her childhood room—perfectly preserved as if she were … Continue reading 2022: Accommodating for Others
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my favorite movies of 2022, trends that emerged throughout the year, and some prognostications about where things might be headed. Listen to After Image, … Continue reading The Best of 2022
It’s about time. For conductor Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett), time is her job. Her right hand “starts the clock,” while her left shapes the music and guides the orchestra. She can also stop time, slow it down, speed it up, … Continue reading TÁR
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the best movie of the year Tár, now in theaters, and one of the best American debuts in the last four decades, recently restored … Continue reading
You may overlook the anachronisms at first, but a few things ought to tip you off that Women Talking, the latest from writer-director Sarah Polley, does not take place when you think it does. A slow-moving traffic sign here, a manufactured … Continue reading Daydream Believer: Dispatches from the 49th Telluride Film Festival
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