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Righteous retribution
Cassie’s drunk again, alone in the club and a mess. She can’t find her phone, and all her friends have left. Two guys at...
In this theater I call my soul
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. —Martin Scorsese
It all goes back to Mean Streets: “You don’t make up...
The problem with pulling your punches
When Wonder Woman sailed into theaters this summer, coolly breaking superhero box office record after box office record, it was no surprise that curious...
Something to do with death
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will...
The 44th Denver Film Festival returns with in-person and at home...
What does home mean to you?
That’s the question Flee director Jonas Poher Rasmussen poses to Amin Nawabi, an Afghan refugee on the eve of marrying his...
Southern gothic
"Memory is the selection of images. Some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. Each image is like a thread, each thread woven together...
Living archive, living cinema
Ken Jacobs is coming back to Boulder, and it’s kind of a big deal.
“He’s part of the history of poetic cinema/experimental cinema, the...
Best in show
The Boulder International Film Festival is the cherry on top for a town with an already-impressive film scene. Throw in some big stars, up-and-coming filmmakers, foreign favorites and fascinating documentaries and you’ve got the perfect weekend for a cinephile. Here’...
The past and present collide in ‘Hell or High Water’
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hen it comes to movie genres, none are as distinctly American as the Western and Film Noir. The Western, populated by cowboys, Native Americans...
Soulless cinema
To Disney, from the desk of Mufasa: “Remember who you are.”
The Lion King, Disney’s latest computer-generated remake, isn’t like the rest. Yes, the story...
‘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...
The birth of the last lion
May 1940: Hitler is riding roughshod across Europe, gobbling up territory like an insatiable monster. Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark have all fallen. Belgium,...