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The Midnight Family

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Mexico City is home to 9 million souls, but the government operates fewer than 45 ambulances to aid them in times of need. To...

Exploring legacy of experimental filmmaker Brakhage

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No one can say for sure what the late Stan Brakhage would think of the Brakhage Center Symposium — except that he would both hate and love it...

The cinema remains

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Back for a second weekend, the 40th annual Denver Film Festival offers plenty for moviegoers looking for something old and something new. From the...

Guerrilla Film School: ‘Monsieur Hire’

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If you’ve been missing CWA’s annual Ebert Interruptus and the pleasure of a good film conversation, then head down to Denver’s Smiley Branch Library on Dec....

Homeviewing: Refugee-pers Creepers

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The most satisfying response to a horror movie scare is not a jump, a shriek or a recoil. It is a verbal “Nope!” It...

BIFF 2013: The man behind the Man in Black

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In 2005, Jonathan Holiff was living in Los Angeles, working hard at his agency, The Hollywood-Madison Group. He hooked up celebrities with Fortune 500 companies for product endorsements; one of his biggest successes was getting Jessica Simpson together with Chicken ...

Familiar fish tale


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Baby Dory is the cutest thing that has ever been recorded in the history of cinema. This is an inarguable fact. She’s 90 percent...

The cinema awaits

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The Denver Film Festival (DFF) turns 40 this year, and for the next two weekends, the Sie Film Center, the UA Pavilions and the...

Smurfed up

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The good news about the big-screen 3-D version of The Smurfs is that it’s not the insipid — and some say “socialist” — Smurfs you remember from 1980s TV...

Me without you

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Ash is Purest White is a gangster movie. Well, sort of. Sure, the movie opens with a room full of low-level gangsters gambling, but...

Couldn’t put eggsy together again

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When done well, a movie that simultaneously exists as a certain thing while satirizing that same thing resembles a Mobius strip, a tantalizing narrative...

Faint pulse praise

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Warm is the ultimate ’tweener temperature. It’s not “hot” or “cold”; it rejects extreme or definitive categorization. It’s the thermometer equivalent of “meh.” So, it’s fitting that writer/director Jonathon Levine’s film sports the noncommittal word as the lead in ...