Screen
Living archive, living cinema
Ken Jacobs is coming back to Boulder, and it’s kind of a big deal.
“He’s part of the history of poetic cinema/experimental cinema, the...
A revival you can’t refuse
Some movies never grow old. They exist outside of time and space, always there, always waiting for us to return. The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II are two such movies and they return to the big screen Sunday, June 22 at Century Theatre in Boulder...
Your vice is a locked room and only I have the...
Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) lives for the 1960s. The clothes she wears, the music she listens to, even the movie posters on her bedroom wall...
Waltzing with the enemy
Since 1994, Pierre Dulaine, subject of the 2013 documentary Dancing in Jaffa, has run a program called Dancing Classrooms, which teaches fifth graders the fundamentals of ballroom dance. The program teaches more than just footwork, it teaches the students elegance, ...
Ride fast, die young
All it took was Lance Armstrong and a very successful “Bike to Work” campaign and cycling became more popular than ever. Especially in Boulder where the cycling community is positioned to overthrow every last automobile on Broadway. On Sunday, August 24, Stage 7 of ...
Cons, vexing
Despite its title and the fact that Will Smith continually mouth-dumps exposition about how pulling a con requires attention to detail, Focus is hella sloppy. It’s not just that genuinely thrilling “who’s playing who” moments bump up against a holistically ...
A woman’s work and a son’s obsession
There’s a bit of fairy
tale when it comes to Benedetta Barzini. As the story goes, it was 1963 when
Barzini was discovered on the streets...
Swing and a miss
Dame Helen Mirren as a toughtalking Nevada brothel madam? We like to think our finest screen performers can play anyone. Mirren, whose career has encompassed the full spectrum of human behavior, from queens to gangster’s molls, is fully capable of tackling a ...
Happy little trees
With a tightly wound blond perm, a smoker’s pipe and a voice that registers just north of a whisper, Carl Nargle is one of...
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...
Children of the night
The fictional oil town of Bad City, Iran is, as far as we know, populated with pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, drug users, a stray family member or two, a cat and The Girl (Sheila Vand). Casting a menacing shadow over this ghost town, The Girl rides a skateboard, ...


















