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Jedi mind tricks from ‘The Men Who Stare At Goats’

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"Is this really based on facts?” a fellow critic asked the studio rep at the screening of The Men Who Stare At Goats. “Does it matter?” I responded, and I was right, it doesn’t. Whether it’s factual or just a riff on the craziness of modern military and contemporary ...

Boring vampire sex

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The fourth film in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness...

Something for everyone

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The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) keeps getting bigger. Helmed once again by Beeck sisters Robin and Kathy, BIFF 16 (March 5-8) offers moviegoers 88 features...

Home viewing: ‘Pierrot le Fou’

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It’s the story of boy meets girl, but it’s all mixed up. He’s Ferdinand (Jean-Paul Belmondo), a married man with kids. She is Marianne...

The limits of empathy

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The man looks unassuming. He’s Teodoro Ulber (Nathán Pinzón), a middle-aged English professor, short and squat with proper manners and nice clothes. He’s timid...

Meet Dalton Trumbo

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If you’ve spent any time on CU’s campus, you probably noticed the courtyard fountain next to the UMC — the kind where couples take their engagement photos and children play on hot summer days. You might’ve even noticed the small plaque on the south pillar, dedicating...

Home viewing: Women Make Film

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Running 14 hours and featuring the work of 183 directors, 700 clips and seven narrators, Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema...

Revenge with a twist that falls short in ‘Citizen’

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Law Abiding Citizen is the latest in the bad-lawyer genre, with Jamie Foxx as careerfocused attorney Nick Rice, who accepts a plea bargain from the killer of affable inventor Clyde Shelton’s (Gerard Butler) family to ensure his excellent trial outcome record...

These pictures of you

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Hank has given up. Marooned on a deserted island in the Pacific, he has run out of food, water and reasons to live. All...

A story of fire and ice; silver and gold

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Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90 percent of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything...

Reading cinema

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They always say write the book that you want to read,” Brad Weismann says. “I was looking for a reference book that covered the...

The show must go on—Dispatches from the 48th Telluride Film Festival

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There was no show last year; it was called on account of pandemic. Just as well: Wildfires all along the West draped a burnt...