Reviews, interviews, and festival coverage for Boulder’s only independent newspaper from 2014 to 2025.
It’s that time of year again. The roads are packed, the lines at the sandwich shops quadruple, electrical outlets at Starbucks become a scarce commodity, and Boulder is flooded with 30,000 hungry young minds ready to change the world. School … Continue reading Continuing Excellence: Previewing the Fall 2015 International Film Series
First published in 1923, The Prophet by Lebanese American author Kahlil Gibran is one of the most successful and popular books of poetry ever produced. Selling more than 100 million copies in more than 40 languages, The Prophet is a collection of 26 illustrated … Continue reading THE PROPHET
David Foster Wallace is an ordinary guy. He reads obsessively, eats junk food en masse, is addicted to watching TV, wonders what it is like when Alanis Morissette eats a bologna sandwich, and lives his life with a nagging feeling … Continue reading THE END OF THE TOUR
What is there left to say about Woody Allen, the 79-year-old writer/director of 45 feature films, a dozen of them masterpieces? Better yet, what does Woody Allen have left to say? Averaging a little more than a movie a year … Continue reading IRRATIONAL MAN
Is there a less desirable room to be in than a courtroom? True, courtrooms are the spaces where civility and rhetoric determine the justice of actions, but entering one is like traversing Dante’s Inferno. Justice may be served. You might … Continue reading COURT
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
The time has come to rewrite Jean-Luc Godard’s aphorism: “All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.” Writer/director/cinematographer Sean Baker doesn’t even need the gun—just two transgender actresses, three iPhone 5s with fancy lenses, and East … Continue reading TANGERINE
For most, Taxi Driver is summed up by one of the most famous lines in cinema: “You talking to me?” Conveying masculinity and bravado, it readies angry men for battle. But it is misleading. It is an act, a façade. The truth … Continue reading TAXI DRIVER
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
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