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In memoriam: Anna Karina
No one face embodied the
French New Wave more than that of Anna Karina. Born Hanne Karin Bayer in
Denmark in 1940, Karina made her way...
See you at the movies?
It’s Tuesday at 3 p.m. outside the Century Theater in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and it’s quiet. Too quiet.
You’ll have to excuse the...
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...
BIFF: Heads and horsetails
Penny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat, the Triple Crown-winning racehorse, reveals the truth behind her life in a new documentary, Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat’s Owner...
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...
Double trouble
Lee Roy Kunz has his father to thank for his latest film, Deliver Us.
The pair were drinking at Cannonball Creek Brewing Company in Golden,...
The outsider
It was a Saturday in July when Meursault killed the man. The man, an Arab, was lounging on the sun-drenched beach when Meursault approached....
‘Book of Eli’ a throwaway post-apocalyptic religious parable
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...
Angry young white men
On Jan. 21, 1958, Charles Starkweather entered the Nebraska home of girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and shot and killed her father, mother and 2-yearold sister. The two went on the lam and Starkweather slayed seven more over the course of eight days before surrendering ...
Songs of Solomon
For whatever reason, avant-garde art films have never gained the pop-culture cachet achieved by other realms of the art world...
A woman’s work and a son’s obsession
There’s a bit of fairy
tale when it comes to Benedetta Barzini. As the story goes, it was 1963 when
Barzini was discovered on the streets...
Home viewing: ‘The Breaking Point’
When Jack Warner previewed The Breaking Point in the summer of 1950, he knew he had a hit on his hands. And with good...


















