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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A WOMAN OF PARIS
The year was 1919, and Charles Chaplin, along with Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford, formed the distribution company United Artists. Four years later, made with his own money and on his own schedule, Chaplin released his first film … Continue reading A WOMAN OF PARIS
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the Sundance Film Festival coming to Boulder (starting in 2027), Death of a Unicorn (out now in theaters), and A Woman of Paris (newly restored and available on home video from The Criterion Collection). Continue reading
KING LEAR
In 1985, Jean-Luc Godard—the enfant terrible of the French New Wave—and the Israeli producer Menahem Golan signed a contract on a cocktail napkin: the story of King Lear, written by Norman Mailer, filmed by Godard, ready for the following year’s … Continue reading KING LEAR
WINCHESTER ’73
When it comes to westerns, 1950 was a banner year. More than 125 features were released that year—a high-water mark the genre would never again see—and many would become emblematic of the genre: John Ford’s Wagon Master, Henry King’s The … Continue reading WINCHESTER ’73
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my favorite film of 2024, Nickel Boys, out now in limited release, and the newly restored western classic, Wichester ’73, available from The Criterion … Continue reading
FUNNY GIRL
I once spent a week with a family friend in the London suburb of Cheltenham, England. “I call the place ‘Evergreen,’” the lady of the house proudly told me. And she wasn’t referring to the tree, but the Barbra Streisand … Continue reading FUNNY GIRL
Go West! Alex Cox on Making His Last Movie and the Re-Release of His First
Former CU professor and current filmmaker Alex Cox is gearing up to make his final feature. “I don’t want it to be my last movie,” Cox says. “It’s just that it very well may be the case. It’s been seven … Continue reading Go West! Alex Cox on Making His Last Movie and the Re-Release of His First
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in theaters everywhere, and the newly released set from The Criterion Collection: Three Revolutionary Films from Ousmane Sembène. Continue reading
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