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IFS unlocks the artistry of Wim Wenders
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man abroad and at home. Sing to me his story as a wanderer and a traveler,...
A surreal take on a classic
Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity, Anna Karenina has been brought to stage and screen many times, often with mediocre results due to its complexity. Pay attention: It’s mid-1800s Russia, and Anna (Keira Knightley) is married to Karenin (Jude Law), a dull...
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...
listen up!
Limited Partnership Premiere from Out Boulder, Monday, Sept. 8, Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-499-5777...
‘How do we know we’re dreaming?’
Some movies are better left misunderstood. A Long Day’s Journey Into Night might be one of those movies. Sure, if you wanted to, you...
Secrets between dead and living in ‘Flowers’
Ane (Nagore Aranburu) lives her life of quiet desperation one bland day at a time. Stuck in a loveless marriage and grappling with early...
Everyone is awful
Warning to newly engaged couples: Do not see Gone Girl, a movie that makes marriage look like The Hunger Games with slightly more alleged sodomy. Writer Gillian Flynn, adapting her own novel, filters her twisty-turny whodunit (if there even is an “it” to be “whodun...
Lab results
Sarah Adina Smith is the first to admit that a career as a filmmaker wasn’t the most obvious path for her life.
“It took me...
‘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...
BIFF: God Loves Uganda
The documentary God Loves Uganda begins innocently enough, outlining evangelical outreach efforts by the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer (yes, they refer to it as IHOP) to Uganda...
