ROAR
There has never been, and there will never be, a movie like Roar. Even the tagline is one in a million, “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Seventy cast and crew members were.” If that doesn’t pique your … Continue reading ROAR
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CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
If Jean-Luc Godard was correct when he surmised, “The history of cinema is the story of men filming women,” then the French auteur Olivier Assayas’s latest, Clouds of Sils Maria, adds the crucial word missing from that epigraph: young. The cinema is … Continue reading CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA
Sarah Adina Smith on THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
Rashaan Salaam and Kordell Stewart!” Sarah Adina Smith cheers with delight, recalling her high school years as a University of Colorado Boulder Buffs fan. “I was born and raised in Fort Collins, but my Mom went to CU,” Smith says. “We … Continue reading Sarah Adina Smith on THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
BADLANDS
On Jan. 21, 1958, Charles Starkweather entered the Nebraska home of girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and shot and killed her father, mother, and 2-year-old sister. The two went on the lam, and Starkweather slew seven more over the course of … Continue reading BADLANDS
THE [FRENCH] CONNECTION
One of the more fascinating aspects of the movies is their ability to reach across time and space and continue cinematic conversations that started long ago. Moviegoers will be able to peek in on that conversation next week at The … Continue reading THE [FRENCH] CONNECTION
LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
If 40 years of Saturday Night Live has taught us anything, it’s this: comedy is the sharpest form of criticism. Biting wit levied by the absurd becomes the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down, and SNL has been spoon-feeding America since … Continue reading LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
Caroll Spinney on I AM BIG BIRD
There is one thing you never do on Sesame Street, and that is put someone down. “Our business is not to ridicule,” Caroll Spinney—the long time puppeteer inside Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch—says. “Dumb is a word we never … Continue reading Caroll Spinney on I AM BIG BIRD
THE RED SHOES
Why do you want to dance?” the man asks the girl. The girl pauses and answers his question with a question, “Why do you want to live?” “I don’t know exactly why,” the man responds with a smile. “But I … Continue reading THE RED SHOES
Tom Hart and Rodney Sauer on Colorado Chautauqua’s 2015 Silent Film Series
The movies started small. So small that only one person at a time could watch them. The year was 1892, and Thomas Edison and his colleague William Kennedy Laurie Dickson discovered that if you spun sequential photographs in a small … Continue reading Tom Hart and Rodney Sauer on Colorado Chautauqua’s 2015 Silent Film Series
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