Screen
‘We don’t get a lot of things to really care about’
Deep in the Oregonian woods, a man lives with his pig. He is a recluse with a past; she is a Kunekune with a...
A matter of life and death
Everybody clap your hands. Soul, the latest feature film from Disney/Pixar, rolls credits with a new version of the Curtis Mayfield classic, “It’s All...
Play these movies loud
It was just over a year ago, on March 6, 2020, when South By Southwest (SXSW) pulled the plug on its film, music and...
What happens when a son sets out to profile his father?
The documentary film Old Man is as much a story of a troubled, perhaps marginally dysfunctional family as it is the story of a troubled record store — and, in many ways, a dysfunctional town. The portrait of Boulder is not graceful. It’s a critique of the town’s ...
An ache to make something impactful
According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. The primary offender: opioids — heroin,...
The act of seeing with one’s own eyes
Human beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly based on what we see and how we see, but there...
A matter of persistence
The legacy of Orson Welles looms large in the history of cinema. So large, even Welles himself fell into its blackness.
“The word genius was...
‘Youth in Revolt’ part inspired, part irresponsible
"Punk" and "rebel" don't belong in the same sentence with "Michael Cera." But somehow, they connect in the few-holds-barred teen comedy "Youth in Revolt...
Zac Efron cries a lot
The Motion Picture Association of America has given Charlie St. Cloud a PG-13 rating for, among other things, “an intense accident scene,” which is the best way to describe the film itself. With some supernatural melodramas, you may buy what’s on the page, as with...
‘Son of Saul’ to close Boulder Jewish Film Festival
From March 12-21, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival takes over the Boedecker and Gordon Gamm Theater at The Dairy for a 10-night residency of...
