It’s often been joked that if the title wasn’t already taken, most of Robert Mitchum’s movies could’ve been titled Out of the Past. That 1947 drama has become emblematic of the noir cycle popular in the 1940s and early-50s thanks … Continue reading PURSUED
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
Michael J. Cinema 