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In memoriam: Anna Karina

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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When Jack Warner previewed The Breaking Point in the summer of 1950, he knew he had a hit on his hands. And with good...