It would be low-hanging fruit to open this column with a declaration along the lines of: “The Flatirons Food Film Festival returns for a fifth course!” But who are we to eschew the tastiness of low-hanging fruit? It’s probably sagging … Continue reading Food as Culture; Food as Language: Previewing the 2017 Flatirons Food Film Festival
There is no shortage of ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month—observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15—in the Centennial State, but celebrating with a movie is always a good start. Down in Denver, the Sie Film Center hosts CineLatino, … Continue reading WOODPECKERS (CARPINTEROS)
He may not command the salary of Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio, but for a large percentage of moviegoers, he is just as essential to the history of cinema. He is Bruce Campbell, the self-proclaimed B-movie and TV actor with … Continue reading Bruce Campbell on HAIL TO THE CHIN
If it’s not a labor of love, then it’s a labor of something,” Errol Morris said, drawing a laugh from the Friday morning audience. Morris’s comment referred to his latest work, the four-and-a-half-hour docudrama Wormwood, but was applicable almost every time … Continue reading When I Paint My Masterpiece: Dispatches from the 2017 Telluride Film Festival
Dear University of Colorado students: If I could offer you one word of advice—no, it’s not sunscreen—it would be this: Resources. Find them, use them, embrace them, stake your college career on them, and you will find yourself a better, … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
In the last 30 years, we have lost 50% of the world’s coral. This loss is far from arbitrary, and Chasing Coral—the latest documentary from Boulder-based filmmaker Jeff Orlowski—is the photographic evidence people need to emotionally attach to a cause. The … Continue reading Jeff Orlowski on CHASING CORAL
“Life’s tragedy begins with the bond between parent and child.” —Ryūnosuke Akutagawa A father is sick, and the son is beckoned to his side. Though the set-up may be familiar, the execution is anything but. This is Columbus, the first movie … Continue reading COLUMBUS
Some men just think they’re better than others. Connie does. Scratch that: Connie knows he’s better. Better than the two-bit drug dealer he’s in cahoots with. Better than the bail bondsman he owes. Better than the incarcerated criminals he sees … Continue reading GOOD TIME
Still wonderful, isn’t it? And no dialogue. We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces. There just aren’t any faces like that anymore. — Norma Desmond, Sunset Boulevard Of all the faces to grace the silver screen, none were greater or … Continue reading COLLEGE
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