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Three colors, three ideas, three masterpieces

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The colors belong to the French flag, the corresponding ideas to the Republic: blue, white and red — liberty, equality and fraternity. For France,...

Wadiya do that for?

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Although it turned many a talentless friend into an amateur impressionist, Sacha Baron Cohen’s performance as Borat was inarguably hilarious. The improvised, horribly racist, legitimately brilliant film that put Cohen on the map was a straight-up phenomenon and a ...

A portrait of change, a portrait of love

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Richard and Mildred Loving just wanted to be together. They loved each other and wanted to raise a family and in 1958, the two...

Went the war well?

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Dunkirk — the latest feature from writer/director Christopher Nolan — isn’t like any other war movie. That’s because Dunkirk isn’t the story of a...

Game theory

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We’re only a couple months into the new year, but The Last of Us looks destined to be one of the most talked-about shows...

Recognize this

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I want to tell you a story about a story,” writer/director/performance artist Laurie Anderson tells the audience. She recounts the time she spent in the hospital as a child after breaking her back. Anderson tells it in a rather typical manner: accident, negative ...

Under the radar

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Fire up the projector and dim the lights — the 46th Denver Film Festival kicks off this weekend. This year’s slate opens with a...

The cinematic sampler

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As far as cinema is concerned, 2021 opened not with a bang but with cautious optimism. For starters, moviegoing has returned with AMC, Cinemark...

We all go a little mad sometimes

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Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) is precisely the type of writer you’d expect to meet if you’d read one of her stories: Distant, acerbic and...

Who needs a swan song?

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Golden Era Hollywood screenwriter Frank S. Nugent once described story as a disturbance of the status quo: “Something happens to upset it; the disturbance...

Democracy in the dark

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One of the great pleasures of living in Boulder is once again upon us with the 69th iteration of the Conference on World Affairs...

Life goes on

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There is nothing in this life more tragic, more soul-crushing than the untimely loss of a loved one. Thankfully, we have developed faiths, routines...