On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Blue Bayou (now playing in theaters), recap the Telluride Film Festival, and identify some themes coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Listen … Continue reading
Reporting from the Telluride Film Festival. Cyrano feels like it should work. A musical retelling of Edmond Rostand’s 19th-century play set on the isle of Sicily with comedy, action, and romance. Starring Peter Dinklage, Haley Bennett, Ben Mendelsohn, and Kelvin Harrison … Continue reading CYRANO
Reporting from the Telluride Film Festival. There’s a not insignificant part of me that wants to reject King Richard. Here is the story of Venus and Serena Williams—two of the greatest tennis players to ever set foot on the court—filtered through the … Continue reading KING RICHARD
The allure of a portrait is the suggestion of the secret. Just look at the one of Lisa del Giocondo. We know when she was born, June 15, 1479, and we know Leonardo da Vinci painted her sometime in the … Continue reading PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
You don’t have to know a thing about soccer, or even care much for it, to enjoy Diego Maradona, Asif Kapadia’s documentary about the legendary Argentina player. Constructed from over 500 hours of archival footage, and bolstered by audio interviews with … Continue reading DIEGO MARADONA
It’s been 20 years since novelist Jonathan Lethem published Motherless Brooklyn — the story of Lionel Essrog, a low-level gumshoe with Tourette’s — and actor Edward Norton has been trying to bring it to the screen every since. Oh, to know the … Continue reading MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN
It’s been one week since wrapping the 46th Telluride Film Festival, which means it’s high time for reviews and fall previews. In the spirit of the festival, let’s kick things off by first looking back. Each year, TFF invites someone … Continue reading LATE AUTUMN
Few cinematic pleasures are greater than a Labor Day weekend spent inside Telluride’s picturesque box canyon. At 8,750 feet above sea level, the air is thin and crisp. The sun’s rays beat down on you, but a breeze instantly chills … Continue reading This week in Film — Dispatches From the 46th Telluride Film Festival
With the 46th annual Telluride Film Festival opening next weekend (Aug. 30–Sept. 2), now seems like a fine time to dig into TFF’s past and highlight a few recent masterpieces. Let’s start with 2017’s First Reformed, a movie whose righteous … Continue reading FIRST REFORMED
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