Nothing screams summer quite like a road trip. The pull of the open road, the freedom to choose this path or that, the small pockets of life one comes across on the way to the destination, the transformative experience of … Continue reading The International Road Movie with Suranjan Ganguly
I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
I have Varda on the mind. And not just because she passed away earlier this year at the age of 90. Or that I just wrote about one of her best films, Vagabond. Or that the Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake’s Femme … Continue reading FACES PLACES
Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo and I sit down to discuss Yesterday, Vagabond, and Framing John DeLorean. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, 93.7 FM in Nederland, 98.7 FM in Fort Collins, and … Continue reading
When Agnès Varda died March 29, 2019, at the age of 90, cinema lost a titan. Varda’s first film, La pointe courte (about an unhappy couple trying to work through their problems), was shot on location in a fisherman’s village and mixed … Continue reading VAGABOND (SANS TOIT NI LOI)
Michael J. Cinema 