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I’m with her
The Irish have a saying: Is this a private fight, or can anybody join? For noted journalist and city activist Jane Jacobs, there was...
A slice of ‘Ninja’
The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...
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...
‘Living Dead Girl’
She was born Norma Jean Baker in 1926, but she died Marilyn Monroe in 1962. Between those two dates and names lived one of...
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...
The world comes to DFF
The 41st Denver Film Festival brings together more than 300 shorts and feature films from Oct. 31–Nov. 11. Sure, there are bound to be...
It’s all politics
When money talks, who speaks the truth? That’s one of the guiding questions behind All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, the Oscar-nominated documentary by...
Hubris is for rookies
The John DeLorean story has it all: Cars, cocaine, supermodels, countries at war, political scuffles on both sides of the Atlantic, an FBI sting...
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...
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...
Will the circle be unbroken?
As the old saying goes: If you think you’ve got problems, ask someone about theirs. Within one hour you’ll be begging for your own...


















