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Here’s Butters: ‘South Park’ animator to speak in Boulder
When Eric Stough was studying film at the University of Colorado Boulder, he wanted to get a job working on the big-budget, high-production value cartoons made by The Walt Disney Co. Then South Park happened...
It’s a hard world for a little thing
Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/left-hand?
1930s West Virginia: A condemned...
‘It’s my sanctuary’
At first blush, the synopsis of Dylan & Zoey sounds like a warm and uplifting tale of a rekindled connection. With only 24 hours...
Home viewing: Satire streams
A lecture may get your point across, but a story illustrates it better. And if you can smuggle in a little humor, it’s a...
An orgy of one
Why do you want to dance?
Why do you want to live?
Well, I don’t know exactly why, but I must.
That’s my answer too.
—Boris Lermontov and...
The Little Mermaid grows some teeth
Thanks to Disney’s ability to cash-in on nostalgia, a tale as old as time with songs as old as rhyme is back in theaters...
Ten short films about morality
Famed Polish writer/director Krzysztof Kieslowski already had a handful of feature films and documentaries under his belt when his writing partner, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, gave...
My name is Marina Vidal
Marina Vidal (Daniela Vega, Chile’s first openly transgender actress and model) is a waitress with designs of being a singer. And with a voice...
‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback
It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...
A knife in the water and the snakes in the grass
In the history of cinema, there are few feature debuts as mysterious, haunting and assured as Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water. Yes, that...
The greatest of all time
Hyperbole is great for journalism, terrible for art. Granted, the above headline might draw attention, clicks and (hopefully) puts asses in the seats, but...
Home viewing: Existential cinema
Comfort watching comes in all shapes in sizes. Sometimes it’s a chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff. Other times it’s Gene Kelly dancing...
