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The sound of a true American voice

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Ten years ago at the Sundance Film Festival, a new voice in American cinema was announced. The voice was not loud, but it was clear, and it belonged to the 29-year-old Ramin Bahrani...

Couldn’t put eggsy together again

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When done well, a movie that simultaneously exists as a certain thing while satirizing that same thing resembles a Mobius strip, a tantalizing narrative...

Home viewing: Pride streams

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It was President Bill Clinton who first declared June “Gay & Lesbian Pride Month.” That was in 2000. In 2009, President Barack Obama opened...

‘Book of Eli’ a throwaway post-apocalyptic religious parable

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The 23rd Psalm, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,” is the inspiration for the dark, moody film The Book of Eli, and though it takes quite a while to move beyond its Mad Max roots, it is ultimately a modern religious parable...

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BIFF Shorts, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 9, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303- 443-8696...

Home Viewing: Kelly Sears on ‘Born in Flames’

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It’s been 10 years since the Social-Democratic War of Liberation: “The most peaceful revolution the world has known.” So opens director Lizzie Borden’s incendiary 1983...

reel to reel | Week of Dec. 22, 2011

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The Adventures of Tintin...

Laughs & Gasps: The Cinema of Brian Trenchard-Smith

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Any filmmaker’s visit to CU-Boulder’s International Film Series is cause for celebration, but when the filmmaker in question is writer, director, actor, occasional stuntman,...

‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’: Love at second bite

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Filmmaker Chris Weitz said that he knew the Twilight phenomenon had gone off the rails when the female...

The bacon of blockbusters

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Hands down, my favorite discussion in the wake of Furious 7 doing to the box office what Vin Diesel does to elocution (which is to say, stomping it to oblivion): “Do we really need another Fast and Furious movie?” No. No, we do not. We also didn’t need to land on the...

Fight

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‘Unacceptable Risk: Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change...

In this theater I call my soul

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My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. —Martin Scorsese It all goes back to Mean Streets: “You don’t make up...