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If you’ve seen a hundred westerns, then you’ve seen it a hundred times: a mysterious figure rides into town looking for someone. With guns drawn, frontier justice is enforced, the two characters’ shared backstory bubbles up to the surface, and, … Continue reading Nathan and David Zellner on DAMSEL
This conversation between Eric Kohn of Indiewire, writer/director Paul Schrader, and actor Ethan Hawke took place following a screening of FIRST REFORMED at 2017’s Telluride Film Festival. Spoilers follow. ERIC KOHN: Paul, first of all, anyone who’s seen your films … Continue reading Conversations from the Telluride Film Festival: FIRST REFORMED
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
The objective of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival is clear to its founding director, Kathryn Bernheimer: “To educate, to foster an appreciation, to create a deeper understanding.” And all three tenets will be on display March 8–18 at the Boulder … Continue reading Fostering Understanding: Previewing the 2018 Boulder Jewish Film Festival
Just as every journey begins with a single step, a lifetime of passion blossoms from a simple aha moment. “My junior year in college, I was in this computer graphics class, and the professor showed these short films that were … Continue reading Danielle Feinberg on COCO
He may not command the salary of Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio, but for a large percentage of moviegoers, he is just as essential to the history of cinema. He is Bruce Campbell, the self-proclaimed B-movie and TV actor with … Continue reading Bruce Campbell on HAIL TO THE CHIN
In the last 30 years, we have lost 50% of the world’s coral. This loss is far from arbitrary, and Chasing Coral—the latest documentary from Boulder-based filmmaker Jeff Orlowski—is the photographic evidence people need to emotionally attach to a cause. The … Continue reading Jeff Orlowski on CHASING CORAL
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
One of the great pleasures of living in Boulder is once again upon us with the 69th iteration of the Conference on World Affairs (CWA). For the uninitiated, the conference is a weeklong discussion of “all things conceivable,” as the … Continue reading Democracy in the Dark: Josh Larsen to Host Ebert Interruptus at the Conference on World Affairs
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