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Step into the story

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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 ...

Local boy makes God

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The old school newspaper headline, “Local boy makes good,” seems to have fallen out of fashion of late. Should we blame the 24-hour news...

All work and no play…

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Buster (Rami...

Once upon a time in Iran

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Somewhere in Turkey, a man and a woman obtain a foraged passport. The passport is for her, and once the man receives his, he...

Only in dreams

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There are two moments in Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood that take your breath away. The first is visual: A series of neon...

The act of seeing with one’s own eyes

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Human beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly based on what we see and how we see, but there...

Wet and wild

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Everything was going so well for Jake Sully (Sam Worthington). He became a full-fledged Na’vi, the leader of the Omatikaya clan, married Neytiri (Zoe...

‘Hockney’ takes a look inside the mind of a painter

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I’m interested in ways of looking, and trying to think of it in simple ways,” David Hockney says. “Everybody does look, it’s a question...

Something to do with death

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No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will...

Just an old-fashioned love song

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"Your wife’s got that gorgeous glow that comes with your first marriage,” a party guest quips to the oblivious husband. Yes, his face says...

The return of the virtual Sundance Film Festival

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For the second year in a row, the Sundance Film Festival returns to Colorado. Well, to anyone with an internet connection and a movie...

A nation of two and L.A. on my mind

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Nothing else matters when you’re in love. People come and go, jobs come and go, the world turns, but none of that sticks. Not...