Screen
In lieu of a theatrical experience
In compliance with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Colorado Department of Public
Health and Environment and Gov. Jared Polis’ decree, movie theaters are
shuttered...
‘Hidden Figures’ has bad-ass thinkers
Attention: Hollywood has accidentally made a mainstream movie that involves race without a substantial white savior character. Kevin Costner comes very, very close to...
The future of the American family
Verizon Wireless has “Friends & Family.” Sprint calls it “Framily.” Facebook calls it “Friending” (even if your own mother just “friended” you). If the 20th century focused on the nuclear family, then America in the 21st century shifted importance to those friends ...
If it ain’t broke, don’t tinker with it
The Conference on World Affairs has built its share of legacies during its 64 years in existence, but one of the most popular belongs to film critic Roger Ebert...
No music, no life
Tower Records was once the place where many gathered to hear great new music, tell their friends about a record they just heard and, most importantly, to purchase it. Tower Records was the place where Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl worked the ...
Art reflecting Ebert
The Chicago Sun-Times obituary by Neil Steinberg couldn’t have said it better: “Roger Ebert loved movies.” Considering that he reviewed thousands upon thousands of them, it was a good thing. From 1967 to his death in 2013, Ebert was the film critic for the Chicago ...
‘Arabian Nights’ at IFS for a three-night event
Ambition comes in all shapes and sizes, but when it comes to the movies, ambition tends to come big. So big that one night...
‘We were there’
"Hollywood cinema has had a complicated relationship with race and ethnicity since its very beginning,” says Luis I. Reyes at the beginning of his...
Untamed adolescence
Once upon a time, there were five beautiful Turkish sisters whose parents died when they were very young. As a result, they were sent...
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...
The moment when everything changed
Traditions may come in all shapes and sizes, but the rigid ones always seem to be the one’s that last. On the island of...
