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This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. That line from John Ford’s seminal 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, doesn’t just encapsulate the movie’s theme, Ford’s overall career, or even the entirety of the … Continue reading Print the Legend: Westerns at the Sie Film Center
Amy Schumer tries everything. Especially when it comes to shooting a one-night stand for her movie. “I was like, ‘What if we see his dick?’” Schumer says, describing the well-endowed Staten Islander that opens 2015’s Trainwreck. “What if he has a huge … Continue reading Amy Schumer on TRAINWRECK
Rashaan Salaam and Kordell Stewart!” Sarah Adina Smith cheers with delight, recalling her high school years as a University of Colorado Boulder Buffs fan. “I was born and raised in Fort Collins, but my Mom went to CU,” Smith says. “We … Continue reading Sarah Adina Smith on THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
There is one thing you never do on Sesame Street, and that is put someone down. “Our business is not to ridicule,” Caroll Spinney—the long time puppeteer inside Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch—says. “Dumb is a word we never … Continue reading Caroll Spinney on I AM BIG BIRD
The movies started small. So small that only one person at a time could watch them. The year was 1892, and Thomas Edison and his colleague William Kennedy Laurie Dickson discovered that if you spun sequential photographs in a small … Continue reading Tom Hart and Rodney Sauer on Colorado Chautauqua’s 2015 Silent Film Series
I’ve just always been fascinated by what happens when you take a doodle and breathe life into it,” animation director Tim Johnson said, describing his career and passion. Ever since the birth of the flickering image, writers, directors, animators, and … Continue reading Tim Johnson on HOME
This might be a little naïve,” director Mitch Dickman says. “But I’ve been… talking about this film-to-table idea. I think the food community has done a tremendous job of capitalizing on the farm-to-table movement. I don’t think film is all that … Continue reading Mitch Dickman on ROLLING PAPERS
The artist’s life is one of constant searching. Theirs is a restless journey, one constantly straining to see over the next horizon—and filmmaker Tom Shadyac’s journey has taken some unexpected turns that have finally brought him to Boulder. The journey … Continue reading Tom Shadyac
Ten years ago, at the Sundance Film Festival, a new voice in American cinema was announced. The voice was not loud, but it was clear, and it belonged to the 29-year-old Ramin Bahrani. Bahrani’s feature debut, Man Push Cart, is a calm … Continue reading The Sound of a True American Voice: Ramin Bahrani
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