Something must have been in the water in 1960. All around the world, filmmakers, either at the beginning, middle, or the end of their careers, swung for the fences. In Japan, Akira Kurosawa spun Shakespeare’s Hamlet into a corporate thriller with … Continue reading PEEPING TOM
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new sexy tennis drama Challengers (out now in theaters) and the 1964 political drama I Am Cuba, available now on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Marlon Brando’s centenary, which is being celebrated all month long on TCM, and the newly restored All That Money Can Buy available on Blu-ray and DVD from The Criterion Collection. Continue reading
Some people have all the luck, but Jabez Stone is not some people. He’s a New Hampshire farmer with little more to show than the mortgage he owes Miser Stevens. And he’s not the only one: All the farmers in … Continue reading ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
It begins with a birth and ends with a death. In between, a hired gun wanders the streets of Manhattan alone on Christmas while a voice in his head—not his voice—prattles on. The voice refers to him as “you,” “your,” … Continue reading BLAST OF SILENCE
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch—later rechristened Mean Streets—he hardly thought he was changing how movies would look and move. The kid who grew up on Elizabeth Street in … Continue reading MEAN STREETS
What do “Drylongso” and The Ranown Westerns have in common? Find out on this week’s After Image. Continue reading
Pica (Toby Smith) is an Oakland college student taking Polaroids in a photography class devoted to 35 mm. “I came here to learn how to express myself,” she tells the teacher (Salim Akil). “You gotta have a 35 mm camera … Continue reading Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner: DRYLONGSO and The Ranown Westerns
There once was a time when some of the brightest thinkers wondered if movies were the answer. Could this new visual language topple tyrants? Fix social problems? Rewrite the political landscape? There were many questions, and the answer kept coming … Continue reading PASOLINI 101
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