Reviews, interviews, and festival coverage for Boulder’s only independent newspaper from 2014 to 2025.
Not every movie is designed to entertain. Nor are they destined for the multiplex. Some films have a message so urgent there’s no time to wait for an audience to discover it. For the hunters and anglers of Conservation Hawks, … Continue reading Todd Tanner on CHROME
The tower itself is a pinnacle of engineering. Rising 40 stories into the air, it curves slightly inward, like a finger curling towards the palm, as do the other four towers currently being erected—like the concrete hand of a god. … Continue reading HIGH-RISE
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 and Robin Truesdale on FORGOTTEN JEWELS
There is an often-repeated anecdote that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and came in second. It’s a popular story, one that illustrates the emptiness behind celebrity and fame, but it is just a story. No hard … Continue reading ELVIS & NIXON
For the godfather of narrative cinema, D.W. Griffith, moving pictures “moved.” As he said in 1944, “What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.” For Griffith—and the vast majority of storytellers who … Continue reading NO HOME MOVIE
Before you can fix something, you must first take it apart. Before you can be reborn, you must first be destroyed. That line of thinking motivates director Jean-Marc Vallée’s film, Demolition, a movie that focuses on the self-destruction required to survive … Continue reading DEMOLITION
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man abroad and at home. Sing to me his story as a wanderer and a traveler, armed with a camera to photograph the inner, the outer and the eternal. Sing to me … Continue reading Unlocking the Artistry of Wim Wenders
In the conventional sense, Doris (Sally Field) is a spinster. She lives in the same Staten Island house she grew up in—with her cat and 60 years of an accumulated past—and has more or less shut herself off to the … Continue reading HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS
William Faulkner wisely wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” No matter how hard we try to suppress and forget, the sins of the past will come to light, often in an unpleasant manner and especially at … Continue reading REMEMBER
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