If the Western is the vehicle with which contemporary filmmakers investigate the past to understand the present, then Liberty Valance illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since. Continue reading THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, playing CU-Boulder’s International Film Series on Sunday, Nov. 2, and OBEX, playing the Denver Film Festival Oct. 31 and Nov. 8. Continue reading After Image: Oct. 31, 2025
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Caught Stealing (out now in theaters) and preview the International Film Series fall 2025 calendar, including an upcoming screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Continue reading After Image: Aug. 29, 2025
Marion Michael Robinson, aka John Wayne, aka The Duke, was born in Winterset, Iowa on May 26, 1907. If he were alive today, he would be 113. But he’s not. Wayne died on June 11, 1979, at the age of … Continue reading THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
Who is Frank talking to? That was the question posed as a group of us exited The Irishman. One was a film programmer, the other four: film professors—the fixating kind. But the question was valid. Who is Frank Sheeran (Robert De … Continue reading THE IRISHMAN
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. That line from John Ford’s seminal 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, doesn’t just encapsulate the movie’s theme, Ford’s overall career, or even the entirety of the … Continue reading Print the Legend: Westerns at the Sie Film Center
Michael J. Cinema 