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The problem with pulling your punches

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When Wonder Woman sailed into theaters this summer, coolly breaking superhero box office record after box office record, it was no surprise that curious...

The 44th Denver Film Festival returns with in-person and at home...

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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...

Changing the face of cinema

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Remember those old movies? The ones where a couple drives down the road, only they aren’t driving, they’re sitting in a car on some studio lot. And that’s not a road behind them; it’s a rear projection of road. Looks fake doesn’t it...

Turning rebellion into money

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What is it about messianic men and the chaos they cause? They are almost always false prophets, yet time and time again, we fall...

Truth at every level

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An object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view. For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a...

In lieu of a theatrical experience: Summer edition

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This was the weekend we were waiting for: A return to movie theaters in the time of coronavirus. Christopher Nolan’s latest blockbuster, Tenet, was...

Here’s to the ones who dream

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The city of Los Angeles is home to a million stories, all of them different, many of them sad. They don’t always start out...

To infinity, and beyond

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“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...

Bergman at 100

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“ilm is the great adventure — the costly, exacting mistress.” —Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman’s legacy in the annals of cinematic history is secure. With over...

The geek shall inherit the Earth

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Geeks are not found; they are made. This is the lesson Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), a drifter in 1940s America, learns first hand at...

History starts here

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When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch — later rechristened Mean Streets — he...

‘Somebody’s fool’

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Orson Welles needed money. That’s how this story begins. Back in 1946, Welles was putting the finishing touches on an ambitious stage production of...