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A little film about lovely people
On Dec. 1, TCM’s 14-week series Women Make Film comes to a close with movies on death, endings and a little song and dance....
One is the loneliest number
Antonio Pane (Antonio Albanese) is a 48-year-old blue-collar journeyman who has spent his life bouncing from odd job to odd job. Some days he is a cook at a five-star restaurant, on others he could be cleaning out coffins or ripping apart cars at a junk yard. It’s ...
Boulder gets third arts cinema screen
There once was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when people would leave their homes, congregate in vast, darkened rooms, with faces familiar and...
You can’t go home again
The world breaks everyone,” Ernest Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms, “and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that...
A portrait of the president as a young man
The story of the Great Emancipator began on February 12, 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. A few years later, the Lincolns left Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River to non-slave territory in Indiana and set ...
Now and then
I love lists. Lists bring order to my day: what to do, what to watch, what to read, what to listen to. Lists provide...
‘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...
You got it, Bob
I started putting a bunch of dick jokes on Twitter the other day, and I just kept doing it because it was really annoying people,” says Bob Saget. “Well, I’m a 9-year-old boy. You tell me not to say something, and I’ll just say it...
Like clarifying history with lightning
It’s a famous shot from one of the most widely seen movies in the history of cinema: Scarlett O’Hara searching desperately for a doctor...
Point/Counterpoint
To criticize a movie, you have to make another movie. — Jean-Luc Godard
It might be the most notorious climax in American cinema: A black...
Sherlock Homeless
Jack Reacher, the hero of Jack Reacher (in case you were confused), is a drifter with nothing to lose. We know this because that is exactly what Tom Cruise says he is while yelling at a bad guy on the phone, Taken-style. Reacher is novelist Lee Child’s 6-foot, 5-inch...