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Home viewing: ‘Lucía’

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Set across three time periods in Cuba — 1895, 1932, 196.. — Lucía is the story of three different women, all named Lucía, all...

Home viewing: Silent clowns

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It’s mid-June, which means we ought to be full swing into Chautauqua’s Summer of Silents — the annual celebration of cinema sans dialogue. And...

Wildly contradictory and totally true

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Practically everyone knows of Tonya Harding, the figure skater connected with kneecapping her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics. But how...

A perfect gentleman

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Fading Gigolo, which opened The Boulder International Film Festival in February and is now enjoying a theatrical run, begins in a truly unexpected fashion: a pimp and his hoe discussing business while packing up a used bookstore. The pimp, Murray (Woody Allen), ...

‘Cars 3’ tackles the generational divide

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Speed. I am speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning. You are until you’re not. When racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen...

8,500 miles in my shoes

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There are roughly three New Yorks ... First, the New York of the man or woman who was born here ... Second, there is...

The sickness unto death

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What is there left to say about Woody Allen, the 79-year-old writer/ director of 45 feature films, a dozen of them masterpieces? Better yet, what does Woody Allen have left to say? Averaging a little more than a movie a year since his inauspicious debut in 1966 (What...

Where the past begins

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When Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club hit shelves in 1989, more than one reviewer interpreted the narrative’s central tension between mothers and daughters...

Local Theater Company’s ‘Discount Ghost Stories: Colorado’

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Whether they’re tossed aside carelessly or discarded maliciously, some pieces of history just get lost.  Like the story of Florence Molloy and Mabel MacLeay, who...

The eternal appeal of The Great Stone Face

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Still wonderful, isn’t it? And no dialogue. We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces. There just aren’t any faces like that anymore. —Norma Desmond,...

Home viewing: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 3

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In 1990, Martin Scorsese brought together a band of cinema enthusiasts to protect motion picture history by creating The Film Foundation (TFF) — a...

‘The magic circle’

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Few figures loom as large in CU’s history as Stan Brakhage. As a filmmaker, his influence on the visual medium is incalculable — even...