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As the end of the year approaches (ever so slowly), cinema’s award season begins to awake. Naturally, it looks a little different this year, but like any year, prestige studios hold their best offerings back for a December release, and … Continue reading This week in Film — ANOTHER ROUND
Tonight marks the conclusion of TCM’s 14-week series, Women Make Film. One of the best movies featured in the series is now available to watch in a beautiful 4K Blu-ray restoration. No home library is complete without it. From Boulder … Continue reading BEAU TRAVAIL
As TCM’s Women Make Film series winds to a close this Wednesday, it seemed fitting to revisit a conversation I had with Colorado native, now Los Angeles-based, filmmaker Sarah Adina Smith. We chatted back in 2015, when her debut feature, The … Continue reading THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
On Dec. 1, TCM’s 14-week series Women Make Film comes to a close with movies on death, endings and a little song and dance. When it’s all said and done, TCM’s series will have screened 100 movies from all six … Continue reading This week in Film — Sara Sugarman on VERY ANNIE MARY
So you can’t go to the movies. Looks like the movies will just have to come to you, and The Criterion Collection has an essential from the early days of the American independent film scene, Girlfriends on Blu-Ray and DVD: … Continue reading This week in Film — GIRLFRIENDS
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of The Film Foundation—the nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history. To date, the Foundation has rescued and restored 850 features and shorts, among them two Laurel & Hardy classics: Sons of … Continue reading Laurel & Hardy: The Definitive Restorations
A double dose of interviews this week. First up, writers/actors Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin on their debut feature, The Climb: Written by Covino (who also directs and plays Mike in the film) and Kyle Marvin (who plays Kyle), The … Continue reading This week in Film — THE CLIMB and STORIES WE TELL
Kino Now (an on-demand streaming service by the good folks at Kino Lorber) celebrated its anniversary this past October. To mark the occasion, they’re making eight films free to stream with the promo code KNBDAY until Nov. 15. The films: Beanpole, Boy, … Continue reading DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Halloween approaches and the Denver Film Festival rolls on, just another October in Colorado. First, seven shorts and a feature to watch this week at DFF: Shorts 1: Narrative collection — seven shorts, all of them good, three of them … Continue reading This week in Film — Week Two from the Denver Film Festival and INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Martin Eden is one of the best movies I’ve seen this year, and it got me thinking about one of the best movies I saw last year: Transit. Christian Petzold is one of those directors who has my number, and his latest, Undine, … Continue reading TRANSIT
