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That’s a wrap
The 45th Denver Film Festival concludes this weekend with a full slate of features and shorts, documentaries and narratives, and even a party or...
Films to watch for Earth Day
Since 1993, Boulder’s Global Greengrants Fund has been supporting grassroots movements and communities on the frontlines of environmental and climate justice battles all over...
Page turner
John Ford is cinema. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1894 — just as motion picture cameras were first being put to good use —...
Reel to reel | Week of April 5, 2012
10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU Inspired by the classic Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, and as satirical as it is romantic, this is one teen film that is wide enough to span generations in its appeal. Rated PG-13 At International Film Series. — IFS 21 JUMP ...
Great expectations
In 1850, Charles Dickens published his eighth novel, an autobiography of sorts, and his proclaimed favorite: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of...
Bloody interesting
Early on in the derivative but fairly absorbing blur titled Safe House, set in Cape Town, South Africa, Denzel Washington’s Tobin Frost, a spy in from the cold, is brought to a Central Intelligence Agency safe house so that he can be asked a few questions about the ...
‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...
Racing the clock
Yes, it’s beautiful out there. Probably the Boulder region’s best summer in recent memory: cool temperatures (until recently), lots of rain and no smoke...
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 ...
Grindhouse ground out
I have a friend who tells this one joke where it takes an eternity to get to the punch line. And that’s the real joke: that you donated so much of your time for such a small amount of pleasure. The psychology behind my friend’s “humor” has apparently become writer/...
One for something and all for nothing
Terry Gilliam’s outlook of the future is bleak. It always has been. The director of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys and The Fisher King made a name for himself as a director par excellence with 1986’s dystopian and paranoid Brazil, a movie that many count as...
