The best laid plans of horses and men… Most film festivals boast a couple hundred features, an equal amount of shorts and a handful of panels to attend. Out of all of these, only two, possibly three are truly great. … Continue reading Starz Denver Film Festival: Day 5 – 7
Each film is interlocked with so many other films. You can’t get away. Whatever you do now that you think is new was already done in 1913. When I first went to L.A. in 1970, there was a little bit … Continue reading Born On This Day — November 17, 1942
Day 2 of SDFF37 started with a bang and ended with a fire alarm. Halfway through The Clouds of Sils Maria, the fire-alarm went off and the theaters were evacuated (most likely due to a nearby beauty shop, which was flooding as … Continue reading Starz Denver Film Festival: Day 3 & 4
Theory is important. It breaks down the language of cinema and shows us how to create meaning. —Allison Anders Continue reading Born On This Day — November 16, 1954
When we make a film, we are like children playing a game. I say to the actors, “OK, you will be the doctor, you be the nurse … and I am—I am the headmaster. I am the chef d’orchestre.” —François … Continue reading Born On This Day — November 15, 1967
It’s been 37-years since Ron Henderson and his friends started the Denver Film Festival, and the city and it’s citizens have benefitted greatly. Now with a premier sponsor, Starz Entertainment, the Starz Denver Film Festival boasts 12 cinematic days in the … Continue reading Starz Denver Film Festival: Days 1 & 2
“Many things, feelings especially, are common to all human beings. As long as the film appeals to universal human feelings, all audiences will enjoy it. Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent … Continue reading Born On This Day — November 14, 1951
At last year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, I entered a theater playing the movie Grigris with no knowledge of what it was about, who made it, what country it came from, or anything other than it was screening, and I was free. … Continue reading Step Into the Story: Dispatches from the 37th Starz Denver Film Festival
On Nov. 15, the Starz Denver Film Festival will screen a 35mm revival of Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, a movie that is as relevant today as when it debuted in 1989. This past summer’s headlines out of Ferguson, Missouri, and … Continue reading DO THE RIGHT THING
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