Coverage from domestic and international film festival.
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)
Wildlife’s signature image is of a husband and wife pensively looking at each other across an empty chair. Momentarily, their only child will occupy that chair, but his presence will not unite them. Instead, it will only amplify the gulf … Continue reading DFF Review — WILDLIFE
It’s only a matter of minutes before a loaded gun is produced. Not unusual considering Ash is Purest White revolves around two gangsters, but this is mid-’90s China and unregister firearms are illegal and come with a heavy penalty. Just showing someone … Continue reading DFF Review — ASH IS PUREST WHITE (江湖儿女)
The 41st Denver Film Festival brings together more than 300 shorts and feature films from Oct. 31–Nov. 11. Sure, there are bound to be some duds in there, but 2018 is a veritable cinematic bumper crop, particularly when you look … Continue reading The World Comes to DFF: Dispatches From the 41st Denver Film Festival
Let us raise our cups. Standing as some of us do on opposite ends of the river, and drink together. … To the movies. To good movies. To every possible kind.” —Orson Welles’ AFI Life Achievement Award acceptance speech, Feb. … Continue reading One Last Toast to the Wunkerkind: Dispatches from the 2018 Telluride Film Festival
This conversation between Eric Kohn of Indiewire, writer/director Paul Schrader, and actor Ethan Hawke took place following a screening of FIRST REFORMED at 2017’s Telluride Film Festival. Spoilers follow. ERIC KOHN: Paul, first of all, anyone who’s seen your films … Continue reading Conversations from the Telluride Film Festival: FIRST REFORMED
We stand together and reinforce the extraordinary value of this art form. And by ‘we,’ I mean all of us who love cinema and who learn about it as we watch and re-watch these precious films. —Martin Scorsese On April … Continue reading A Community in the Dark: Dispatches from the TCM Classic Film Festival
This Friday, Marvel Studios releases Avengers: Infinity Wars, a massive movie that will, reportedly, tie up 10 years and 18 installments worth of narrative threads and character arcs in one ear-ringing, eyeball-searing, two-hour-and-30-minute extravaganza. The geek may not inherit the Earth, … Continue reading Enjoy the Silence: Previewing the 2018 Denver Silent Film Festival
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