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The context of classics
There is a special kind of joy that accompanies revisiting a favorite movie time and time again. We see ourselves in the faces of...
You’re standing on my neck
The year was 1997. Hanson’s “MMMBop” was jostling with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” for the top spot on the charts, Bill Clinton’s “sexual relations” with Monica Lewinsky were still private, and an MTV animated cult hit about two morons in high school called Beavis and ...
Cameras watching cameras
Somewhere in a remote
part of Japan, a film crew is shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an
abandoned World War II facility. The two leads...
Babette’s Feast
November is the great food month, so it only makes sense that the Trojan Movie House and Art Cinema is screening the great food...
The year in film
Lydia Tár is broken. Pulled from the podium, kicked out of her Berlin apartment, barred from seeing her daughter, the disgraced conductor returns to...
Season’s screenings
Not since the pandemic of 2020 (and 2021, 2022...) has the film calendar looked this uncertain. A dual strike from the Writers Guild of...
Racing the clock
Yes, it’s beautiful out there. Probably the Boulder region’s best summer in recent memory: cool temperatures (until recently), lots of rain and no smoke...
You ain’t seen nothing yet
"It ain’t like it used to be. But it’ll do.” So says one grizzled old timer to another at the end of 1969’s The...
Homespun cinema
CU Boulder’s International Film Series (IFS) has unveiled the spring 2023 calendar, and it’s a doozy. From the Jan. 26 free 35-mm screening of...
Salute your shorts
Past, present and future moviemakers will gather on March 12 at the Dolby Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard to celebrate the best of 2022. Ten...
Some humor, a little sex and a whole lot of humanity
In the 1970s, she was one of the dominant, and most provocative, Italian filmmakers. From behind her trademark white-framed glasses, Lina Wertmüller saw the...


















