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Best of the fest
It’s the most common question you get as a film critic: “What’s good?” Variants include: “What do you like?” “What excites you?” “What should...
Double trouble
Lee Roy Kunz has his father to thank for his latest film, Deliver Us.
The pair were drinking at Cannonball Creek Brewing Company in Golden,...
Balancing act
Now in its second decade, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival is trying something new.
“The reality of programming is that I don’t get to invite...
This must be the place
The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...
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...
Soldiers of cinema
Unless you’re a real film buff, the name Jeremy Thomas might not mean anything to you. But it should. He is one of the...
Back in the saddle
There’s a new sheriff at the CU International Film Series, and his name is Jason Phelps. If you’ve attended IFS in the past, you’ve...
Season’s screenings
Not since the pandemic of 2020 (and 2021, 2022...) has the film calendar looked this uncertain. A dual strike from the Writers Guild of...
Someone to watch over me
It all started with a movie, Lonesome, and the promotional team in charge of booking screenings of the 1928 romantic comedy in various mountain...
‘The magic circle’
Few figures loom as large in CU’s history as Stan Brakhage. As a filmmaker, his influence on the visual medium is incalculable — even...
Nobody puts Baby in the corner
Pica (Toby Smith) is an Oakland college student taking Polaroids in a photography class devoted to 35 mm. “I came here to learn how...
You must remember this
As you read this, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) are currently pounding the...
