Joan Webster has known where she is going since day one. But it wasn’t until today that she knew the destination: Kiloran. It’s an island in the Scottish Hebrides, and she sets off to wed the man who waits for … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Hamnet and Merrily We Roll Along, both in theaters everywhere, and offer Criterion’s latest Eclipse Set: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features for those of you shopping for the cinephile in your life this holiday season. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 5, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Born in Flames (available now on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection) and Orwell: 2+2=5, out in theaters starting Oct. 10. Continue reading After Image: Oct. 3, 2025
It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic Revolution—“the most peaceful revolution the world has ever known”—but the women have been left behind. So opens Lizzie Borden’s 1983 Born in Flames, a rally cry committed to celluloid that’s bound to stir … Continue reading BORN IN FLAMES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Shoeshine, recently restored and available now from The Criterion Collection, and a few back-to-school movies: Clueless, Sing Street, The Holdovers, Rushmore, and College. Continue reading After Image: Aug. 22, 2025
For the boys Giuseppe and Pasquale, the horse means everything. It means the possession of freedom, of financial possibilities. They could rent the horse to wealthy Romans to buy food and maybe a place to call home. Both are in … Continue reading SHOESHINE
Remakes may feel like the name of the game these days, but it’s always been like this. What’s changed is the availability of the original. Saw How to Train Your Dragon in theaters? Watch the animated version on Peacock today! … Continue reading Sweaty Double Feature: THE WAGES OF FEAR and SORCERER
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, out now in theaters, and discuss the nature of remakes thanks to two new restorations and releases from The Criterion Collection: 1953’s Wages of Fear and 1977’s Sorcerer. Continue reading After Image: June 20, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the two new restorations from The Criterion Collection: Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising Continue reading
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