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The best is yet to come

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Neither wind nor rain nor sleet nor snow has stopped the Denver Film Festival before — though the blizzard of 1997 tried when it...

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 ...

Too cool to be forgotten

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When Girlfriends opened in New York City on Aug. 11, 1978, a newspaper strike kept the movie’s release from a public announcement. So, director...

Daydream believer

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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,...

Who lives, who dies, who tells your story

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Alexander Hamilton was a thinker, a writer, a dreamer, a mind constantly at work. Born out of wedlock and orphaned on a Caribbean island,...

Cinema 101

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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 con man’s lament

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Some men just think they’re better than others. Connie does. Scratch that, Connie knows he’s better. Better than the two-bit drug-dealer he’s in cahoots...

Scenes from a marriage

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Out in the hinterlands of Iceland, a married couple is grieving. Some time ago, they lost a child. It has created a noticeable rift...

The Disney ouroboros

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It all started in Kansas City with a young dreamer named Walt Disney. Alice’s Wonderland wasn’t his first creation, but it was significant. The...

This is us

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What is the story of us? That’s a question many movies try to answer, sometimes with the “us” meaning you and me, sometimes with...

‘Friends are the family you choose’

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Stories of how movies get made are as varied as the movies themselves. For Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, two first-time writer/directors, the story...

Where the coconuts are

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Zama — the latest from Argentinean writer/director Lucrecia Martel — opens with a parable: There is a fish, a long-suffering fish, which spends its...