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Politics on screen
We’re less than 60 days away from another Election Day — and just three short weeks until Boulder Weekly’s annual Vote Guide! — and...
Keep the lights on
It always begins with light. Be it an ancient myth or a modern movie, light carves away the darkness and gives form and shape...
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...
Ford v Ferrari
There’s a scene halfway through Ford
v Ferrari where Carrol Shelby (Matt Damon) takes Henry Ford II (Tracy
Letts) for a spin on the test-track in...
The cinematic sampler
As far as cinema is concerned, 2021 opened not with a bang but with cautious optimism. For starters, moviegoing has returned with AMC, Cinemark...
La dolce vita
There’s an old story (probably embellished, possibly apocryphal) from Blackboard Jungle’s opening weekend. Not many people remember that 1955 teen drama starring Sidney Poitier and...
I hate myself and I want to scream
Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman) has problems. She tells her husband ( Josh Charles) that she doesn’t want her children to have a dog because they will fall in love with the dog, causing them to be devastated when it eventually dies. Since things die, why bother loving...
Top of the world
The tower itself is a pinnacle of engineering. Rising 40 stories into the air, it curves slightly inward, like a finger curling towards the...
‘Son of Saul’ to close Boulder Jewish Film Festival
From March 12-21, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival takes over the Boedecker and Gordon Gamm Theater at The Dairy for a 10-night residency of...
So you want to bring peace to the Middle East?
Middle East peace is always a very attractive proposition,” Gamal Helal says. “It’s a very sexy topic. I cannot think of a secretary of...
No longer man’s best friend
White God is a coat of many colors. It is an allegory, a horror movie, a science fiction tale and a satire, placing dogs in the role of oppressed humans to address animalistic aggressions. In every society there is a desire to control. There is also a resistance to ...
BIFF: Drop acid, play baseball, make history
In 1970, Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a no-hitter. Years later, he would claim that during the game, he was tripping on LSD...