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The beauty of cinema is that nothing is what it seems. Images are not literal explanations, but visual descriptions of an emotional experience, and few cinematic genres drive this point home like the horror film. Full of bloodletting, carnal terror, … Continue reading THE HOWLING
Trying to keep up with GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s hate speech isn’t easy—it’s coming in hot and heavy these days—but when Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015, he laid down the groundwork with his particular … Continue reading Jonás Cuarón on DESIERTO
If all had gone according to plan, the internet would have made a rather inauspicious debut, but perhaps it wasn’t meant for modesty. On Oct. 29, 1969, two computers—one at the University of California Los Angeles and the other at … Continue reading LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD
From Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, the Adventure Film Festival (AFF) returns to Boulder for its 12th annual celebration of those who “make their own legends.” Conceived on a handful of scratch paper during a storm in the Himalayas, AFF … Continue reading Jeff & Paige on the 2016 Adventure Film Festival
Are we looking at our food wrong? In 2010, Lady Gaga attended the MTV Video Music Awards clad in a dress made of raw flank steak. Designed by Franc Fernandez and styled by Nicola Formichetti, the Gaga meat dress accomplished … Continue reading What We See When We See Food
Looking for a way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month? The Sie Film Center has a few for you, 15 in fact. Back for a third go around, CineLatino is one of the Front Range’s newest and best film festivals, and … Continue reading Cine Otro: Previewing the 2016 CineLatino
It sure is fun to be young. Not yet old enough to experience that odd combination of nostalgia and melancholy that plagues most adults, and still too young to worry about the future, the youth get to reside in that … Continue reading WHITE GIRL
Every Labor Day weekend since 1974, filmmakers, critics, historians, students, moviegoers, and a handful of outdoorsmen and women converge on the quaint mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, to celebrate the past and present of their beloved art form. They come … Continue reading Simply Potent: Dispatches from the 2016 Telluride Film Festival
It always begins with light. Be it an ancient myth or a modern movie, light carves away the darkness and gives form and shape to the world. In some cases, that light is metaphorical. In others, practical. But in The Light … Continue reading THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
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