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Point/Counterpoint

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To criticize a movie, you have to make another movie. — Jean-Luc Godard It might be the most notorious climax in American cinema: A black...

‘Moby-Dick’ on horseback

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It should have been a classic. Major Dundee, a new kind of Western with Charlton Heston as the titular major. This was the 1960s, and...

Elephant Poaching & Ivory Smashing: A Colorado Cause

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Wednesday. March 12: Elephant Poaching & Ivory Smashing: A Colorado Cause. 7 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, 303-492-6892...

We will not grow old together

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It all started so well. There was love, and there was kindness. There was understanding, and there was support. And then one day, there wasn’t. The...

Nostalgia for the frame

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Elsa Dorfman isn’t interested in your soul; your surface is more than enough. And since the 1960s, Dorfman has photographed those surfaces with love...

When dinosaurs roamed the land

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There once was a time in the not-too-distant cinematic past where the world was still largely undiscovered and areas of the planet were a mystery to modern man. What beasts lived on these islands? What creatures were in these jungles? What was out there, lurking in ...

Local Theater Company’s ‘Discount Ghost Stories: Colorado’

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Whether they’re tossed aside carelessly or discarded maliciously, some pieces of history just get lost.  Like the story of Florence Molloy and Mabel MacLeay, who...

Deadpan double feature

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Sometimes a coincidence is too good to ignore, and this weekend we’ve got two new movies, alike in style and substance, ripe for a...

Dr. John Brinkley is just ‘Nuts!’

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Dr. John Romulus Brinkley Jr. had trouble with the truth. But then again, Dr. Brinkley was an American, and Americans have a particular allergy...

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 ...

Origins of evil, zombies and a film festival on the rise

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It’s a cool spring evening with a bit of a breeze coming in off the mountains — just enough to slam a few doors and lift a few curtains. Old iron gates swing on their hinges in the courtyard. Though it’s too dark to clearly see the surrounding peaks, there’s a ...

Always on my mind

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Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter...