On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Dear Evan Hansen (out now in wide release), recap the Toronto International Film Festival, and pay tribute to the late, great Melvin Van Peebles, … Continue reading
Westermarkt 20 in Amsterdam is home to the Anne Frank House, the secret annex where the Frank and van Pels families hid from the Nazis for more than two years before being captured and sent to the camps. Today, Anne … Continue reading A World at Odds with Itself: Dispatches from the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Blue Bayou (now playing in theaters), recap the Telluride Film Festival, and identify some themes coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival. Listen … Continue reading
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. There’s been a shooting at the school. Those might be the worst words a parent can hear. Words too many parents have heard in recent years. Amy Carr (Naomi Watts) hears them while … Continue reading LAKEWOOD
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. I want to be alone. So said Greta Garbo, an icon of the screen and one of the more reclusive celebrities of the 20th century. Its pithiness fit her persona like a glove. … Continue reading ALONERS (혼자 사는 사람들)
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. Childhood did a number on Violet Calder (Olivia Munn). There once was a time when she was happy and confident and in control. Now, not so much. Not that she’s incapacitated: Violet’s worked … Continue reading VIOLET
Reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival. A young girl’s grandmother has died. So she goes to a cottage in the woods with her mother and father to clean out the house. One day, she, Nelly, wanders into the woods … Continue reading PETITE MAMAN
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