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BIFF: Heads and horsetails

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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

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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

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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’

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“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

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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

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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

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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...

Adventures in cinema

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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

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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

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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

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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

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One of the many pleasures of going to the movies is the discovery of new ideas, new voices and new faces. Last weekend, that...