On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Some Kind of Heaven, available now at CU-Boulder’s International Film Series’ virtual theater, and Young Mr. Lincoln, available to stream on TubiTV or for … Continue reading
Anthony (Jamie Dornan) likes flowers. He also likes Rosemary (Emily Blunt) but has a hard time telling her so. He has a hard time telling her about the flowers, too. There’s a lot that Anthony and Rosemary don’t say—to each … Continue reading WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
On Oct. 30, 2015, a fire broke out during a heavy metal concert in the Bucharest nightclub, Colectiv. Twenty-seven concertgoers died that night; another 180 were injured. In the following four months, another 37 died while still in state hospitals. … Continue reading COLLECTIVE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Another Round, The Changin’ Times of Ike White (both at IFS’ virtual theater), 76 Days (at IFS and Denver Film‘s virtual theater), and Totally … Continue reading
It’s not easy to wrap your head around Ike White. He was a gifted musician at a time when gifted musicians had currency. As one colleague says, “He was in the pocket.” He was also in jail—serving a life sentence … Continue reading THE CHANGIN’ TIMES OF IKE WHITE
Divided into three sections: Fear, Flight, and Fate, Richard Wright’s novel, Native Son, took an existentialist approach to Blackness in America. It’s right there in the titles of the section, and it’s baked into every frame of the 1951 cinematic adaptation … Continue reading NATIVE SON
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Epicentro and Beau travail, now playing at virtual theaters, and discuss what’s missing from the 2020 remake of Mulan, now available on Disney+ Premier … Continue reading
Hubert Sauper is in search of a utopia. The Austrian filmmaker has been searching for some time now, just not as bluntly as in his latest documentary: Epicentro. Here, he opens with a man leaving a cinema to stand on a … Continue reading EPICENTRO
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss the bio-pic Tesla, new to Video On Demand, and Dark Circle, a documentary from 1982 about the dangers of nuclear radiation, which … Continue reading
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