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You know the song. You probably know John Cale’s version, maybe even Jeff Buckley’s. You’ve heard it in movies like Watchman and TV shows like Scrubs. We’re not talking just iconic, but ubiquitous. But you might not know the number of revisions Leonard … Continue reading HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG
The Hungarian film, Son of Saul, opens on Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Sonderkommando member at the Auschwitz concentration camp. German for “special unit,” the Sonderkommandos were Jewish prisoners tasked with disposing the bodies after mass executions and then cleaning … Continue reading SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA)
William Faulkner wisely wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” No matter how hard we try to suppress and forget, the sins of the past will come to light, often in an unpleasant manner and especially at … Continue reading REMEMBER
CU-Boulder’s International Film Series returns January 26 with a free 35 mm screening of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Between tomorrow night screening and May 2’s presentation of the Indian spectacle RRR, there are more than 50 programs to … Continue reading Back on the Big Screen
The cinema has few theorists as gifted as David Bordwell. Film Art: An Introduction, co-written with Kristin Thompson and Jeff Smith, is taught in just about every intro to film class, while Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling … Continue reading PERPLEXING PLOTS: POPULAR STORYTELLING AND THE POETICS OF MURDER
Following the long, hot summer of 1967, the U.S. Army built a series of mock towns called “Riotsville,” serving as training grounds for military and police on how to deal with civil unrest at home. The trainings went hand in … Continue reading RIOTSVILLE, USA
Before you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed. That line of thinking motivates director Jean-Marc Vallée’s film, Demolition, a movie that focuses on the self-destruction required to survive … Continue reading DEMOLITION
Friendship, much like a marriage, isn’t just a long commitment of support, encouragement, and acceptance; it’s a reflection of you, them, and the world around and the world inside. No matter how similar two friends are in the beginning, their … Continue reading CÉZANNE ET MOI
Hank has given up. Marooned on a deserted island in the Pacific, he has run out of food, water, and reasons to live. All he has is trash. Piles and piles of trash, all of it cast off once it … Continue reading SWISS ARMY MAN
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