Screen
From Wheat Ridge High photographer to Disney supervisor
"I always wanted to be a cameraman,” Michael Talarico says over Zoom. “I was always into photography, and it was somewhere in my second...
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...
‘This is how I win.’
Nothing
is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to
understand him. —Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and
Punishment
His name is Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler),...
K for Kane
For many, it’s the greatest of all time. But when it was released 80 years ago, Citizen Kane was a death sentence. The movie’s director and...
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...
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...
‘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...
This must be the place
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: Writers on screen
Writers themselves aren’t that dramatic or empathetic a subject,” screenwriter Sarah Gubbins says. “As a genus and species they are wont to be solitary,...
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...
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...
Home Viewing: ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’
Geoffrey is not Geoffrey.”
Well, on the outside, Geoffrey is Geoffrey, but Elizabeth (Brooke Adams) knows something’s off with her husband. It’s a spousal sixth...
