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Five steps to love yourself

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Megan Bloomfield (Natasha Lyonne) is the all-American girl next door. She’s bubbly and perky, lives in the suburbs with her parents and is dating...

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...

Home viewing: Beau travail

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Released at the tail end of the last century, Beau travail was filmmaker Claire Denis’ fifth film: the one that launched her onto the...

Satanist or satirist?

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Few words in the English language come as charged as “Satanism.” Conjuring images of blasphemy, ritual, sacrifice and perversion, Satanism seems to be the...

Inside the hearts and minds of Restrepo

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From May 2007 to July 2008, directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington were embedded in the Korengal Valley to document U.S. troops stationed at the base, Restrepo. Their 2010 documentary, Restrepo, was a breathtaking portrayal of what war feels like, and it ...

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...

‘The human at the center of it’

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“I don’t think we see the human at the center of it,” Jamie Boyle says, “what their life looks like now, how they fell...

This must be the place

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The stage is empty save for one microphone and a boom box. A man in a gray suit and an acoustic guitar walks up,...

Home viewing: Cheryl Dunye

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Sometimes you have to create your own history. —Cheryl Dunye She calls them “Dunyementaries”: Cinematic blends of fiction and documentary, construction and confession. They’re self-reflexive...

Grow where you’re planted

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Prolific playwright Steven Dietz has many connections with Colorado. The most obvious is that he was born and raised in southwest Denver, attended John...

The shame of a nation

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The year was 1978, and China’s future did not look promising. The country had survived wars, depression and famine, plus a cultural revolution was taxing the...

‘Cars 3’ tackles the generational divide

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Speed. I am speed. Faster than fast, quicker than quick. I am Lightning. You are until you’re not. When racecar Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen...