Coverage from domestic and international film festival.
It’s been one week since wrapping the 46th Telluride Film Festival, which means it’s high time for reviews and fall previews. In the spirit of the festival, let’s kick things off by first looking back. Each year, TFF invites someone … Continue reading LATE AUTUMN
For some, equality is a game of mathematics: Clinical, sterile, and dull. But, high up in the Rocky Mountains at the Telluride Film Festival, equality breathes and moves. Here, women dream film, think film, make film, and talk film. And … Continue reading Women Make Film: Dispatches from the 2019 Telluride Film Festival
You can’t be an outdoor enthusiast and not be a lover of nature. Or someone who is concerned about the environment,” Richard Paradise says. “It’s all sort of intertwined, and it’s all convergent upon each other.” Paradise knows what he’s … Continue reading Traverse the Great Outdoors Without Leaving Your Seat: 2019 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
To see a Studio Ghibli film is to believe: In wonder, in magic, in childhood imagination, and, most importantly, in the capacity for human compassion. And what could we use more right now than a little compassion? Thankfully, GKIDS and … Continue reading Studio Ghibli Fest 2019
Open Secret—a nearly forgotten and difficult-to-find B-programmer from 1948—ought to be seen by everybody. In it, newlyweds John Ireland and Jane Randolph go calling on Ireland’s old army buddy, only to become entangled in subterranean hell, where anti-Semitism is alive … Continue reading Those Wonderful People Out There in the Dark: Dispatches from the 10th annual TCM Classic Film Festival
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
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
Birds of Passage—from directors Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra—is a masterpiece. Set in Colombia and spanning the years 1969 to 1980, Birds is divided into five sections, songs really, that recount the tale of ancient rituals, tight-knit tribes, and the sudden and … Continue reading DFF Review — BIRDS OF PASSAGE (Pájaros de verano)
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