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Staining our national honor
You can’t control the
world, but you can control your reaction. Reactions define the individual, and
in Scott Z. Burns’ The Report, the tragic events of...
Sinful and sorrowful
The
Irishman begins in darkness. A small box of light at the center of
the frame opens like an iris, and we see nurses and doctors....
Babette’s Feast
November is the great food month, so it only makes sense that the Trojan Movie House and Art Cinema is screening the great food...
‘Life is no way to treat an animal.’
The 42nd Denver Film
Festival (DFF) concludes Nov. 10, but there are still plenty of movies to see.
Here are three not to be missed.
Directed...
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
When Avatar shattered box-office records in 2009, many
attributed the movie’s success to 3D’s profitability. And not just because
viewers were intrigued, but because tickets cost...
The show must go on
Back for number 42, the
Denver Film Festival (DFF) returns Oct. 30 through Nov. 10, but under a dark
cloud. This will be the first DFF...
Me and my pal Adolf
Jojo (Roman Griffin
Davis) is a good little Nazi. Jojo’s only 10 years old, but his brown shirt is
spiffy, his red arm badge is on...
Denver Film Festival: Brit Withey Tribute
On March 31, 2019, Colorado lost one of its great champions of cinema:
Brit Withey. Withey, who died in a one-car crash, was the artistic...
From a second-rate Bette Davis to a first-rate auteur
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe
that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not...
Mamma Roma
Few filmmakers are as divisive as the great Italian Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was a novelist, a poet and a provocateur even before he...
