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Those wonderful people out there in the dark

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Open Secret — a nearly forgotten and difficult-to-find B-programmer from 1948 — ought to be seen by everybody. In it, newlyweds John Ireland and...

Stuck in the middle with you

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Professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) loves history. Not just any old history but antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Sumerians — you name ’em, Paul knows all...

2016 in…

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What can one possibly say that might even begin to distill and codify 2016? From an endless string of celebrity deaths that prompted an...

A life alongside the movies

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Coloradoans haven’t been lacking for silent film lately. Whether it’s Howie Movshovitz presenting Sunrise at this year’s Conference on World Affairs at the University...

Activism with an authentic flavor

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The Dairy Center for the Arts is doing something unique, so pay attention. The Americas Latino Eco-Festival Film Forum covers three continents (North and South America and Antarctica), provides a much-needed voice for the Latino community, discusses political and ...

Diving into a sticky situation

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Conflict is the heart of cinema. Conflict drives the plot and draws the audience and practically every movie revolves around it. Yet, only a select few have the audacity to dive into what fuels that conflict and, to borrow a line from The Rules of the Game, ...

Alien revolution from ‘Avatar’

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Avatar is a movie about manifest destiny and second thoughts, a...

With moral authority

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For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts. —George Eliot, Middlemarch On Jan. 31, 2003, Katherine Gun’s life changed. Gun, a translator working for...

With friends like these…

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Mike and Kyle are best friends. They’ve been best friends and will always be best friends. That might not always be in their best...

Dancing without chemistry

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The country-twang remake of Footloose strives to give us a more down-home experience than the original film...

Images from the underground

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Many filmmakers have strode the hallowed halls of the University of Colorado Boulder: Derek Cianfrance, Dalton Trumbo and Alex Cox are just a few,...

Thieves like us

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Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood) is not exactly the image of your typical con artist. Nor is her name: Her parents named her after...