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Unexpected capitalism on the Oregon Trail
His name is Figowitz, but everyone calls him “Cookie.” It fits him well. Not only is he the cook for this outfit of beaver...
‘Hockney’ takes a look inside the mind of a painter
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...
To infinity, and beyond
“Why am I alive?” she asks.
“I have no idea,” he replies with a kind smile.
Those are the final words of Toy Story 4, Disney/Pixar’s...
A nation of two and L.A. on my mind
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...
Beyond notorious
RBG, the latest documentary from Julie Cohen and Betsy West, opens with images of Washington D.C. accompanied by sound bites from conservative talk radio...
The power of the real
There is no shortage of ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month — observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — in the Centennial...
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 ...
‘Havana Curveball’ isn’t just about baseball
"Not to sound cliché, but it’s my generation’s job to mop up whatever you guys did to fuck it up,” says teenage Mica Jarmel-Schneider...
Once upon a time in Iran
Somewhere in Turkey, a man and a woman obtain a foraged passport. The passport is for her, and once the man receives his, he...
Beyond Eurocentric and Hollywood cinema
“What I’m trying to do is theorize a way to create a brand new Black cinema,” Skinner Myers says. “Like a new Black cinematic...
How do you see the world?
A father is sick and the son is beckoned to his side. While the son waits for his father to die, he meets another wayward...
A lesserknown masterpiece
Every decade, the British Film Institute conducts its Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Movies Ever Made. In 2012, the top two films were familiar: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but third was a dark horse: Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 ...
