Coverage from domestic and international film festival.
The Boulder International Film Festival is a local cinematic staple. And in 2020, BIFF was one of the last in-person events held before the COVID-19 lockdown. How fitting then that BIFF 2021 should also play host to one of the … Continue reading Welcome Back: Previewing the 2021 Boulder International Film Festival
A young woman knows where she is going. She always has. Today it is to the island of Kiloran in the Scottish Hebrides. It will take a day and a night to get there—first by train, then by boat—but when … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
For more than a decade, cinema’s faithful have flocked to the promised land every spring for the TCM Classic Film Festival: One long weekend on Hollywood Boulevard in the movie palaces of yore under the flickering images of the familiar … Continue reading Let’s Movie: 2021 TCM Classic Film Festival
Located next to the butcher’s shop, down the row from the local pub, Deadly Cuts is the hair salon where the women of Piglinstown, Dublin, congregate. It’s a safe space in a rundown town that never feels safe. The gangs, … Continue reading DEADLY CUTS
What is it about messianic men and the chaos they cause? They are almost always false prophets, yet time and time again, we fall for their charm, for their snake oil. You probably don’t have to think long to conjure … Continue reading WEWORK: OR THE MAKING AND BREAKING OF A $47 BILLION UNICORN and DEAR MR. BRODY
The poor dope—he always wanted a pool. Well, in the end, he got himself a pool. —Joe Gillis, Sunset Boulevard Selma Blair wanted to be a writer. Then her English teacher saw her act and told her, “You’re an actress.” Not … Continue reading INTRODUCING, SELMA BLAIR
Wildflowers, released in 1994, was Tom Petty’s fastest-selling album. It went triple platinum in just nine months and became the album Petty cited as his best. And considering the personal turmoil Petty went through during the making of Wildflowers, its success … Continue reading TOM PETTY, SOMEWHERE YOU FEEL FREE
History has a nasty little habit of being reductive. Life unfolds with such a multitude of specificity it’s damn easy to be overwhelmed by it all. So we generalize, we categorize. Anything that doesn’t fit is extricated. Then, after enough … Continue reading WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
Born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, Poly Styrene picked her stage name out of the phone book because she wanted something that sounded plastic. This was Britain in the 1970s, and the cultural landscape was changing. Punk music was taking the scene … Continue reading POLY STYRENE: I AM A CLICHÉ
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