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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...
It’s all over now, baby blue
Tall, skinny, blond and lonely, Connie wants to meet someone and go somewhere. Where really doesn’t matter, and who she doesn’t know yet —...
‘To die with something to live for’
On Sept. 1, 2013, Hayao Miyazaki, the imaginative creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away and The Wind Rises, announced his retirement....
Roll out the barrel
Martin has been immobilized. He’s only 40, but the life drained out of his face years ago. His wife barely talks to him, and...
A story of fire and ice; silver and gold
Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90 percent of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything...
‘How nice it is not to be alone.’
The biggest surprise cinema held for me in 2021 came at the Telluride Film Festival with the U.S. premiere of The Power of the Dog,...
Reading cinema
They always say write the book that you want to read,” Brad Weismann says. “I was looking for a reference book that covered the...
Sinful and sorrowful
The
Irishman begins in darkness. A small box of light at the center of
the frame opens like an iris, and we see nurses and doctors....
The best is yet to come
Neither wind nor rain nor sleet nor snow has stopped the Denver Film Festival before — though the blizzard of 1997 tried when it...
Cinema 101
I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap...
‘The Lovely Bones’ a profound movie
When someone is murdered, their spirit lingers on, observing and trying to influence the course of justice, a ghost seeking revenge. But what of the ghost during this period, what’s their experience and what if there is no peace, no justice, nothing but someone who ...
Daydream believer
You may overlook the anachronisms at first, but a few things ought to tip you off that Women Talking, the latest from writer-director Sarah Polley,...