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The Great Buster: A Celebration
Before he was a filmmaker, Peter Bogdanovich was a critic and historian par excellence. Coming of age as the first wave of Hollywood filmmakers...
All the president’s meh
Although he may still be a panty dropper to the baby boomer set, Robert Redford looks like he needs a good nap. The bags under his eyes are scene-stealing, uncredited supporting actors in The Company You Keep, a ’70s-style thriller about investigative journalism that...
Soldiers of cinema
Unless you’re a real film buff, the name Jeremy Thomas might not mean anything to you. But it should. He is one of the...
Racing the clock
Yes, it’s beautiful out there. Probably the Boulder region’s best summer in recent memory: cool temperatures (until recently), lots of rain and no smoke...
Home viewing: Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
Both born at the end of the 19th century, Arthur Stanley Jefferson (Stan Laurel) and Oliver Norvell Hardy (“Babe” to friends and family), found...
reel to reel | Week of May 10, 2012
ALL ABOUT ACTRESSES A woman director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown, the intellectuals, the comics and the forgotten ...Filming absolutely everything, with or without their permission, the director will be...
These pictures of you
Hank has given up. Marooned on a deserted island in the Pacific, he has run out of food, water and reasons to live. All...
Whirl fools
Imagine watching Star Wars and deciding the franchise should forever forward follow C-3PO. And that C-3PO was played by a former hunk who now...
A portrait of the writers as young men
David Foster Wallace is an ordinary guy. He reads obsessively, eats junk food en masse, is addicted to watching TV, wonders what it is like when Alanis Morissette eats a bologna sandwich and lives his life with a nagging feeling of emptiness. Wallace self-diagnoses ...
How to make friends
A cross far too many stretches of our movie-going lives, we see movie after movie without seeing one that really moves. At once stealthy and breathlessly paced, The Social Network scoots at a fabulous clip, depicting how its version of Facebook founder Mark ...
















