On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Dream Horse, now in theaters, and Merrily We Go to Hell, an underrated pre-Code gem restored and released on Blu-ray and DVD from The … Continue reading
He’s just so damn handsome. Smooth skin, full head of shiny black hair, snappy dinner clothes, thin as a rail—what girl wouldn’t fall for Jerry Corbett? Coffee heiress Joan Prentice sure does. She falls for his charm and she falls … Continue reading MERRILY WE GO TO HELL
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Frank Borzage—the recipient of the first Best Director Oscar. One of his signature films, History is Made at Night has been recently restored and … Continue reading
Nowadays we call them noir, but back in the 1940s and ’50s they didn’t have a name. Born out of 1930s hard-boiled novels and an influx of European filmmakers fleeing fascism, films noir (as French film critics later coined them) were … Continue reading THE FURIES
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Courier (available now On Demand), Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (playing Denver Film’s Women+Film Festival), and The Furies, out on Blu-ray and DVD from … Continue reading
Tall, skinny, blond, and lonely, Connie wants to meet someone and go somewhere. Where really doesn’t matter, and who she doesn’t know yet—maybe someone who looks like James Dean and sings like James Taylor. She’s only 15, so there’s a … Continue reading SMOOTH TALK
Has decency become a sin?” Ibrahima Dieng cries. On his knees, Ibrahima holds out his empty hands in mock offering. The world has stripped him bare, and now, in an ending fitting of Kafka, Ibrahima offers up the scraps. So … Continue reading MANDABI
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two World War II dramas: Dara of Jasenovic (now playing in select theaters) and The Ascent (available now on Blu-ray and DVD from The … Continue reading
Great movies don’t require a signature shot, but it helps when they have one. What would Vertigo be without that dizzying dolly zoom? The Godfather without the door closing on Kay? The Graduate without Benjamin Braddock trapped in the crook of Mrs. Robinson’s leg? They are … Continue reading THE ASCENT (Восхождение)
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