Mike and Kyle are best friends. They’ve always been best friends and will always be best friends. That might not always be in their best interest, but there it is. Some people you attach yourself to, some people attach themselves … Continue reading Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin on THE CLIMB
For writer/director/editor Trey Edward Shults, making movies is a family affair. It doesn’t matter if he’s shooting in his parent’s home in Spring, Texas, for 2015’s Krisha, or in the neon glow of Southern Florida for his latest, Waves. “I try to … Continue reading Trey Edward Shults on WAVES
On the surface, Return to Mount Kennedy, directed by Eric Becker, looks like your typical climbing doc, but Mount Kennedy is anything but. Jumping back and forth between 1965 and 2015, Return to Mount Kennedy focuses on Bobby Whittaker, a constant presence in the 1980s–’90s … Continue reading Bobby Whittaker on RETURN TO MOUNT KENNEDY
According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, more than 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017. The primary offender: opioids—heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine, and more—claiming nearly 50,000 lives. It’s a public health emergency with a profound … Continue reading Peter Hedges on BEN IS BACK
Now playing in-person and virtually, the 44th Denver Film Festival features 230-plus narratives and docs, features and shorts, series and music videos, many of them in the Centennial State. Among those featured in the Colorado Shorts program: Ghost Dogs, the latest from … Continue reading Joe Cappa on GHOST DOGS
I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels So says Ruth Roman in Tomorrow is Another Day, a forgotten lovers-on-the-lam noir from 1951. Or it would have been forgotten … Continue reading Eddie Muller on DARK CITY: THE LOST WORLD OF FILM NOIR
Everyone has a story to tell, but stories are fragile and can easily be forgotten. They must be cared for and saved for future generations. And if not for historical purposes, then for cultural ones. That’s the hope behind Forgotten Jewels, … Continue reading Judith Kreith on FORGOTTEN JEWELS
It started with an image. On Dec. 24, 1968, the astronauts of the first manned mission to orbit the moon—William Anders, Frank Borman, and James Lovell—were busy snapping photos of the moon’s surface when Borman noticed a beautiful blue Earth … Continue reading Jon Shenk and Bonnie Cohen on AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL
Who is Number One? So asks Number Six, the prisoner, played by actor and show co-creator Patrick McGoohan. And so asked the hoards of TV viewers across Canada, Britain, and the U.S. when The Prisoner was first broadcast in 1967 and 1968. … Continue reading Alex Cox decodes THE PRISONER
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