The Argentinian filmmaker, Lucrecia Martel, knows a thing or two about heat. Hot, sweltering heat. It suffocates every frame of her debut La cinéaga (2001)—a spectacular film that also happens to terribly unsettling to watch—and it practically steams the lens in Zama, her … Continue reading ZAMA
Though he was born English, Rory (Jude Law) is American through and through. Not in his politics or personal tastes, but in his desire to make more out of his station in life, his need to rise from rags to … Continue reading THE NEST
We are less than two months away from another presidential election, and everything feels awful. The country hangs under a cloud of COVID. Forest in the West continues to burn while hurricanes batter the Gulf Coast. Protests morph into riots, … Continue reading JIMMY CARTER: ROCK & ROLL PRESIDENT
The history of cinema is littered with promising debuts, but Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman holds a special place. It’s playing tonight on TCM as part of their Women Make Film series. From Boulder Weekly Vol. 28, No. 1, “Home … Continue reading THE WATERMELON WOMAN
Hubert Sauper is in search of a utopia. The Austrian filmmaker has been searching for some time now, just not as bluntly as in his latest documentary: Epicentro. Here, he opens with a man leaving a cinema to stand on a … Continue reading EPICENTRO
Back in 2017, Kino Lorber restored and released a series of films from Italian filmmaker Lina Wermüller, a powerhouse on the world stage. Wertmüller is still with us—she’s 92 as of Aug. 14—as are her films. Seven Beauties from 1975 … Continue reading Women Make Film: Lina Wertmüller
Born Sept. 2, 1923, in Kwilcz, Poland, Walerian Borowczyk was famous, then infamous, then forgotten. He made short films in the 1950s and ’60s, many of them animated and many of them showing the promise of a creative mind at … Continue reading LOVE EXPRESS: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
It seems fitting that Other Music’s genesis can be traced to Kim’s Video. Both are institutions of a pre-digital era New York City; both functioned as fertile ground for 21st century indie artists: Alex Ross Perry and Sarah Adina Smith … Continue reading OTHER MUSIC
I’ve spent a lot of time traversing the freeways of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota recently. From Pueblo on up to Rapid City, my wife and I have hit the road exploring our surroundings and discovering small towns. Naturally, … Continue reading HANNA RANCH
Three plutonium triggers a day, 720 bombs a year, many of them thousands of times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan. That was the output of the Rocky Flats Plant during its heyday—a factory that produced nuclear weapons … Continue reading DARK CIRCLE
