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Wes Anderson could go full Burton
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...
Step into the story
At last year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, I entered a theater playing the movie Grigris with no knowledge of what it was about, who made it, what country it came from or anything other than it was screening and I was free. Grigris — a joint production between Chad ...
C’mon get happy
Judy Garland was born in
a trunk. Or so the story goes in A Star Is Born, a movie
about an aging actor on his way...
Reel to reel | Week of July 4, 2013
The BolderLife Festival films are showing this week at the SIE Film Center. For a full listing of the films go to denverfilm.org...
More free dumb!
The exhaustive brilliance of both Mad Max: Fury Road and Creed means you can’t dismiss a sequel outright just because of a decades-long gap...
‘Chipmunks’ sequel should’ve been roadkill
"Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel" is a kids...
Life during wartime
Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), a gay Black 20-something, trades the cold streets of New York City for the harsh regiment of Marine boot camp....
From banal to extraordinary
Stan Brakhage may have died in 2003, but his legacy lives on in the town in which he made his home. To this day, the spirit of the experimental filmmaking legend lives on in many ways — and in Boulder, there is no shortage of places to go and see films and speakers ...
The reality of experience
“Say it, no ideas but in things”
—William Carlos Williams, Paterson
As the legend goes, when poet William Carlos Williams sat down to pen what would...
