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The more things change…

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On Nov. 15, the Starz Denver Film Festival will screen a 35mm revival of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a movie that is as relevant today as when it debuted in 1989. This past summer’s headlines out of Ferguson, Missouri, and the death of Eric Garner in New York, ...

Just as I remember

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This is not based on a true story; this is a true story.” So proclaims the title cards that open American Animals — 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...

Keep the lights on

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It always begins with light. Be it an ancient myth or a modern movie, light carves away the darkness and gives form and shape...

Preserving the past

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If you really want to see something spectacular this summer, head to Paris and take a trip up the Eiffel Tower. And don’t skimp...

We are family

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If necessity is the mother of invention, then Inez de la Paz needs to invent a new life for herself and her little boy....

BIFF: I Am Divine

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The filmmaker John Waters and his muse, the larger-than-life drag queen Divine, are responsible for some of the most bizarre and shocking films of the ’70s. Divine’s turns in Waters’ movies propelled her into a star of the era’s mostly underground gay subculture, ...

A force big enough to swallow us all

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None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before Me...

Top of the world

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The tower itself is a pinnacle of engineering. Rising 40 stories into the air, it curves slightly inward, like a finger curling towards the...

When I paint my masterpiece

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Reverend Toller (Ethan Hawke, in one of his best performances) is having a crisis of faith. The parish pastor of New York’s 250-year-old First...

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...

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...