On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Three Thousand Years of Longing (out now in theaters), and the newly restored Buck and the Preacher (available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection). … Continue reading
It opens like any other western: Sepia soaked still photographs of settlers in wagons traversing a wild frontier while title cards credit the actors, the filmmakers, and the dedication. Then the pictures begin to move. In the background, a lone rider … Continue reading BUCK AND THE PREACHER
A jitterbug contest. Hot rods drag race on a mountain road. A violent car crash. A woman wanders the Hollywood Hills with a head injury. A man recounts a dream of meeting a monster living behind a diner dumpster. A film … Continue reading MULHOLLAND DRIVE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the new documentary, Bitterbrush (playing theatrically in limited release on On Demand through all the usual providers), Cha Cha Real Smooth (also in limited … Continue reading
A master among masters, the filmography of Martin Scorsese is nothing to sneeze at. Raging Bull, GoodFellas, The Irishman—you know the lineup. But what sometimes gets overlooked are the documentaries, a dozen of them, personal and nuanced works that play like B-sides … Continue reading THE LAST WALTZ
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Deep Water, now playing on Hulu, The Last Waltz, which will be on 4KUHD/Blu-ray on March 29 from The Criterion Collection, and—if you click … Continue reading
A young girl spies her mother in bed with a man who is neither her father nor the woman’s husband. The young girl is Flora (Anna Paquin), the speaking child of her mute mother, Ada (Holly Hunter). Both were bought and … Continue reading THE PIANO
Any town is sort of like a fruit tree: Some of the people are good, some of them are bad. Just like the fruit on a tree. No matter if you go or stay, think of it like that until … Continue reading THE LEARNING TREE
Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year—including those seen for the first time regardless of the year of release. As I … Continue reading SENSES OF CINEMA: 2021 World Cinema Poll
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