Watching movies in 2019 is no longer a question of where, but why. It could be everywhere: Multiplexes, art house theater, film societies, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, public transportation, parks—name the space and you’ll be able to watch a movie … Continue reading THE CONFORMIST (IL CONFORMISTA)
Kathryn Bernheimer—programmer of the Boulder Jewish Film Festival (BJFF)—knows what her audience wants. “Opening and closing films have to be feel-good,” she says. “And they have to be substantive.” And for the seventh annual BJFF, screening March 7–17, she has … Continue reading What Cinema is Capable of: Previewing the 2019 Boulder Jewish Film Festival
An object is not without context, and a perspective is not without a point of view. For British philosopher Alan Watts, this was a question of magnification. For example, take a photograph: look at it close up, and you see … Continue reading Truth at Every Level: Previewing the 2019 Brakhage Center Symposium
There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a womancannot do as easily as a man, and there is no reason why she cannot completely master every technicality of the art. So wrote Alice Guy-Blaché in the … Continue reading BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE
On the surface, Return to Mount Kennedy, directed by Eric Becker, looks like your typical climbing doc, but Mount Kennedy is anything but. Jumping back and forth between 1965 and 2015, Return to Mount Kennedy focuses on Bobby Whittaker, a constant presence in the 1980s–’90s … Continue reading Bobby Whittaker on RETURN TO MOUNT KENNEDY
Cousins Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) have a plan so crazy it just might work: Dig a one-foot-wide, thousand-mile-long tunnel from Kansas to New Jersey, install a fiber optic cable and strip an algorithm down to its bare … Continue reading THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT
Back for a 15th year, the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF), Feb. 28–March 3, has expanded its usual scope. With over 50 features and shorts screening, 2019 marks the first year the festival extends to Fort Collins for an additional … Continue reading Adventures in Cinema: Previewing the 2019 Boulder International Film Festival
On Sept. 1, 2013, Hayao Miyazaki, the imaginative creator of My Neighbor Totoro, Porco Rosso, Spirited Away, and The Wind Rises, announced his retirement. Cameras flashed, and reporters asked questions. This wasn’t the first time the 72-year-old animator claimed he was stepping … Continue reading NEVER-ENDING MAN: HAYAO MIYAZAKI (終わらない人 宮崎駿)
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. —1 Corinthians 13: 11–12, King James Version Can randomness … Continue reading NEVER LOOK AWAY (WERK OHNE AUTOR)
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