November is the great food month, so it only makes sense that the Trojan Movie House and Art Cinema is screening the great food movie: Babette’s Feast. Released in 1987, this sweet and touching Danish film centers on a religious community … Continue reading BABETTE’S FEAST at the Trojan Movie House
Set among the streets, parks, and apartments of Harlem, 17-year-old Ayanna (Zora Howard, who co-wrote the movie with director Rashaad Ernest Green) has hopes and dreams. But they all hit a sizeable bump in the road when she meets and … Continue reading PREMATURE
Set in London, Sorry We Missed You follows a working-class family, the Turners, as they try to keep their head above water financially and emotionally in the freelance and gig economy. Sorry We Missed You is a harrowing look at what it takes … Continue reading SORRY WE MISSED YOU
When Avatar shattered box-office records in 2009, many attributed the movie’s success to 3D’s profitability. And not just because viewers were intrigued but because tickets cost more. But after a decade of blockbusters and kids’ movies cynically presented in 3D as a … Continue reading LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (地球最后的夜晚)
Directed by Matthew Rankin, The Twentieth Century is one-half quirky bio-pic about the rise of Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Dan Beirne), and one-half spoof of King and the notion that a bio-pic can be a truth delivery device. Shot … Continue reading THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to preview the 42nd Denver Film Festival. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 AM Denver/Boulder, … Continue reading
Shot by Stephen McCoy over five years, Nightcrawlers is a ground-level look at homelessness and addiction. McCoy—who ended up both homeless and addicted to heroin while making the documentary—offers no commentary, no Freudian causality, and no solutions. Instead, he simply watches others … Continue reading THE NIGHTCRAWLERS
Blunt and poetic has always been Errol Morris’ strongest suit, and American Dharma is no exception. This time, the man before Morris is Steve Bannon, the architect behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and, at one time, the most hated and feared … Continue reading AMERICAN DHARMA
Like most nightmares, they appeared at night. Clad in red jumpsuits and leather driving gloves, wielding oversized golden shears. Who are they? They’re us: doppelgangers from below who’ve come to take their rightful place from the doubles living above. Led … Continue reading US
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