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Category: Film Festival

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

Noir City Denver

May 5, 2023May 4, 2023 Michael J. Casey

I’ve long been a fan of the Film Noir Foundation. From interviewing the founder, “czar of noir,” Eddie Muller, to covering the festivals, I have tried to bring more eyes to these delightfully dark and dirty gems. But this week … Continue reading Noir City Denver

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

“You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Dispatches from the 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival

April 28, 2023May 4, 2023 Michael J. Casey

It ain’t like it used to be. But it’ll do.” So says one grizzled old timer to another at the end of 1969’s The Wild Bunch—one of the few movies that can truly claim to have changed the trajectory of … Continue reading “You ain’t seen nothing yet!” Dispatches from the 2023 TCM Classic Film Festival

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival7 Comments

Daydream Believer: Dispatches from the 49th Telluride Film Festival

September 15, 2022September 13, 2022 Michael J. Casey

You may overlook the anachronisms at first, but a few things ought to tip you off that Women Talking, the latest from writer-director Sarah Polley, does not take place when you think it does. A slow-moving traffic sign here, a manufactured … Continue reading Daydream Believer: Dispatches from the 49th Telluride Film Festival

Film Festival, Reviews

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

September 14, 2022September 15, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. His name and visage might be the most recognizable in all of movie history. Thanks to his cameos, his TV shows, and his copious appearances on talk shows, he’s practically a household name … Continue reading MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Film Festival, Reviews

MIÚCHA, THE VOICE OF BOSSA NOVA

September 12, 2022September 15, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. Today it’s probably more synonymous with elevator music and the dentist’s office, but in the late-1950s and early-1960s, Bossa Nova took the musical world by storm. Born out of Brazil’s samba and featuring … Continue reading MIÚCHA, THE VOICE OF BOSSA NOVA

Film Festival, Reviews

ARMAGEDDON TIME

September 11, 2022September 15, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. The kid’s a class clown. You get the sense he might have a learning disability, but Armageddon Time doesn’t make much of it. Just that he acts out at school, befriends the lone Black kid … Continue reading ARMAGEDDON TIME

Film Festival, Reviews

WILDCAT

September 10, 2022September 15, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. Young Harry Turner left Britain for the battlefields of Afghanistan and came back a troubled man. The things he saw there—the fate of one little girl, in particular—marked Harry so deeply that it’s … Continue reading WILDCAT

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival, Reviews

BONES AND ALL

September 9, 2022November 27, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. It all starts so innocently: the invitation to a sleepover. The invited wants to go, but her father won’t let her. Not in a million years. He’s the type who installed a barrel … Continue reading BONES AND ALL

Film Festival, Reviews1 Comment

BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS

September 8, 2022September 15, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. A shadow in the desert, fish flopping on the floor of an L.A. Metro train, a child who does not wish to be born is pushed back into his mother. These are but … Continue reading BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS

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