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BIFF: Heads and horsetails
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...
When I paint my masterpiece
Consider the bus driver. Do you notice them as you board the Skip? Do you wonder what they see as the Dash rumbles down...
Too much violence — despicable
Despicable Me is a surprisingly violent animated movie that suffers from being released within a few weeks of Toy Story 3. Where Toy Story 3 has warm characters who seek to do well by each other, Despicable Me is populated by characters who constantly hurt each ...
‘Every leaf, every ray of light’
“Someday we’ll fall down and weep, and we’ll understand it all. All things.” —Mr. O’Brien, The Tree of Life
For two weeks every May, the...
Life without an operation manual
As the reality of summer blockbuster season sets in, a simple truth becomes all too clear: Moviegoing can be quite stressful. Death and destruction...
Streaming cat blues: Week two
Apocalypse Later: Harold Camping vs. The End of the WorldAs 2010 drew to a close, TV preacher and Biblical mathematician, Harold Camping, predicted the...
Home viewing: Cheryl Dunye
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...
Adventures in cinema
Back for a 15th year, the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), Feb. 28–March 3, has expanded its usual scope. With over 50 features and...
An embarrassment of riches
Every year is a great year for the movies, but when was the best? Was it 1939, the year Hollywood gave us The Wizard...
‘Book of Eli’ a throwaway post-apocalyptic religious parable
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...
From a second-rate Bette Davis to a first-rate auteur
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe
that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not...
A star is born
One of the many pleasures of going to the movies is the discovery of new ideas, new voices and new faces. Last weekend, that...