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A lesserknown masterpiece

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Every decade, the British Film Institute conducts its Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Movies Ever Made. In 2012, the top two films were familiar: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but third was a dark horse: Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 ...

Brand Xenu man

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Writer/director/demigod of modern American cinema Paul Thomas Anderson — or PTA, as his peeps call him — has a filmography so stunning that merely making a very good movie means it’s his worst one yet. So, with a heavy heart comes the news that The Master isn’t ...

Kung Ow Kickin’

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Sometimes, life is simple. If you don’t like beef, don’t order a rib-eye. If you don’t like stale, recycled jokes, don’t watch CBS sitcoms. If you don’t like action movies, avoid The Raid: Redemption like a television-phobic vegan would avoid the stuff mentioned ...

A knife in the water and the snakes in the grass

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In the history of cinema, there are few feature debuts as mysterious, haunting and assured as Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water. Yes, that...

Emma.

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Emma Woodhouse (Anya Taylor-Joy) is handsome, clever and rich. She’s also a bit of a wrecking ball — the kind who thinks she’s holding...

From flood to film

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Lyons has a new man in town and he’s starting up a film festival. That man is Jake Fink. Fink spent 15 years as a journeyman on film sets, starting out as a production assistant in New York City, before moving on to work for the NHL. A project on alien abduction got ...

In this theater I call my soul

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My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. —Martin Scorsese It all goes back to Mean Streets: “You don’t make up...

Brakhage Center Symposium to honor George Kuchar

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To borrow a line from French filmmaker and critic, Jean-Luc Godard, “Cinema is everywhere.” And from March 4-6, cinema is indeed everywhere in Boulder....

‘What year is this?’

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If the whole of 2017 could be summed up in one cinematic moment, then that moment would not be found in the cinema but...

All eyes on Europe

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Now playing online, 'The French' and 'Kyiv Frescos'

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 ...

Wes Anderson could go full Burton

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It’s not writer/director Wes Anderson’s fault that since he burst on the scene with what is still his best film, Bottle Rocket, he has become a hipster demigod...