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Final frontier

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Geoff Marslett found cinema through science. During the 1990s he worked as a physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory before turning his hand to...

One last toast to the wunderkind

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Let us raise our cups. Standing as some of us do on opposite ends of the river, and drink together. ... To the movies....

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Paradoxical.” “Bold.” “Mysterious.” “Eccentric.” “Private.” Five words to describe the subject of the new documentary Finding Vivian Maier. Who was Vivian Maier? A maid and nanny for families in the Chicago area. Why is everyone talking about her? Because Maier was ...

‘Broken Embraces’ isn’t funny

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"Films have to be finished," intones Mateo, the blind-former-filmmaker. "Even if you do it blindly...

Slipping Mickey

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Gather ‘round kids and hear a story from the days of yore, a time when artists drew cartoons with their actual human hands and not every children’s movie had covert sex jokes for ma and pa to chuckle at. It was a time before everything was glossy and smooth, before ...

Laughs & Gasps: The Cinema of Brian Trenchard-Smith

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Any filmmaker’s visit to CU-Boulder’s International Film Series is cause for celebration, but when the filmmaker in question is writer, director, actor, occasional stuntman,...

The more things change…

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On Nov. 15, the Starz Denver Film Festival will screen a 35mm revival of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a movie that is as relevant today as when it debuted in 1989. This past summer’s headlines out of Ferguson, Missouri, and the death of Eric Garner in New York, ...

Don’t escape – innovate

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After a long, hard day at work, many people find themselves in front of a brightly lit screen, immersed in what they consider pure entertainment. To them, it’s a chance to let go, to forget about their troubles, to distract themselves from their boring existence on...

Power play

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Kalia Motley grew up in a world of nostalgia. Her mom was a connoisseur of vintage clothing and her dad a jazz musician. Through...

The black market meets the stock market

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Killing Them Softly is an ambitious mashup of black market and stock market politics, wrapped in the guise of a straight-up crime movie. If that sounds like it’d be hard to pull off, it is. If you think it’s too much for one film, you’re right. Killing Them Softly ...

‘From Paris With Love’ tries too hard

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John Travolta shaved his head, dyed his goatee and...

Bon appétit

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It all starts so innocently: the invitation to a sleepover. The invited wants to go, but her father won’t let her. Not in a...