On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 51st Telluride Film Festival, and some of my favorite titles from the fest: Will & Harper, Emilia Pérez, and The Apprentice. Continue reading
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In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival
We’re coming up on the 200th birthday of motion pictures,” film editor Walter Murch told the audience at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. “I said pictures, not photography,” he continued, pointing out that the first zoetropes and phenakistiscopes created crude … Continue reading In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival
In Conversation With Mark Cousins
In 2011, writer/director/essayist Mark Cousins released The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-hour documentary covering the first 100 years of cinema’s story. In 2021, Cousins returned to his monumental work with a new supplement: A New Generation. I spoke with Cousins … Continue reading In Conversation With Mark Cousins
Someone to Watch Over Me: Dispatches from the 50th Telluride Film Festival
It all started with a movie, Lonesome, and the promotional team in charge of booking screenings of the 1928 romantic comedy in various mountain towns. They were Bill and Stella Pence, James Card, and Tom Luddy, cinephiles with more industry … Continue reading Someone to Watch Over Me: Dispatches from the 50th Telluride Film Festival
Live from the 50th Telluride Film Festival. Continue reading
MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. His name and visage might be the most recognizable in all of movie history. Thanks to his cameos, his TV shows, and his copious appearances on talk shows, he’s practically a household name … Continue reading MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK
MIÚCHA, THE VOICE OF BOSSA NOVA
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. Today it’s probably more synonymous with elevator music and the dentist’s office, but in the late-1950s and early-1960s, Bossa Nova took the musical world by storm. Born out of Brazil’s samba and featuring … Continue reading MIÚCHA, THE VOICE OF BOSSA NOVA
ARMAGEDDON TIME
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The kid’s a class clown. You get the sense he might have a learning disability, but Armageddon Time doesn’t make much of it. Just that he acts out at school, befriends the lone Black kid … Continue reading ARMAGEDDON TIME
WILDCAT
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. Young Harry Turner left Britain for the battlefields of Afghanistan and came back a troubled man. The things he saw there—the fate of one little girl, in particular—marked Harry so deeply that it’s … Continue reading WILDCAT
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