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When I paint my masterpiece

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Consider the bus driver. Do you notice them as you board the Skip? Do you wonder what they see as the Dash rumbles down...

Not awful, at least

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Compared to 27 Dresses, The Ugly Truth and Killers — The Ugly Truth and Killers being extra-specially evil benchmarks of how low modern romantic comedies can go — Life as We Know It does not crush your soul, does not turn Katherine Heigl into a shrill pain in the ...

Always on my mind

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Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter...

High-flying fun

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is tremendous fun, non-stop action and an adventure film with an appealing story. The film starts with Dastan (William Foster), a beggar boy living by his wits in the bazaar in Persia, getting caught stealing. Seconds before he’...

A star is born

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One of the many pleasures of going to the movies is the discovery of new ideas, new voices and new faces. Last weekend, that...

I’m-a let you finish, but…

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I love it when people argue about whether a certain year was “good” or “bad” for film. It is one of the sillier movie debates a person can have, ranking only behind “Best Adam Sandler Movie” and “Worst Moment in the Star Wars Prequels.” Every year is a good year ...

K for Kane

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For many, it’s the greatest of all time. But when it was released 80 years ago, Citizen Kane was a death sentence. The movie’s director and...

Oui, Oui!

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Other than offering a great celebutant joke based on its titular similarity to an infamous sex tape, 2 Days in Paris was stunningly forgettable and a remarkably unlikely target for a sequel. This is to say, there’s no good reason why 2 Days in New York even exists, ...

Peter Jackson’s latest: ‘The Lovely Bones’

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It won't surprise you that to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, heaven, or at least a lovely version of purgatory, looks an awful lot like the forests and valleys of New Zealand...

Shorts

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BIFF Shorts 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303- 443-8696. The Boulder International Film Festival won’t be fully taking over downtown again until March 5, but that doesn’t mean you have to go BIFF-less until then. On Thursday, Nov...

The poetry of cinema

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Though an obscure class or two on film studies or screenwriting sometimes appears on the course list at Naropa University, the Buddhist-inspired Boulder school has no film studies major. However, since 1999, Naropa has enjoyed the presence of the novelist, singer-...

A patient Western

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At one point in Meek’s Cutoff, set in 1845, the frontier settler played by the excellent, plain-spoken Michelle Williams fires two warning shots after an alarming encounter with a Native American. Hurriedly she loads the rifle with gunpowder and ammunition, while ...