On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading
Category: Film Festival
Coverage from domestic and international film festival.
No News is Good News? Dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
It’s like a grade school love note: Do you like me? (check one)□ Yes□ No♡ Maybe And right now, Boulder is still waiting patiently for a reply. On Jan. 23, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival got underway with no announcement … Continue reading No News is Good News? Dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival
The Sie FilmCenter celebrates DENZ-EMBER
He’s one of our greatest living actors, and Denver’s Sie FilmCenter is here to prove it with a 10-plus-four film series tracing the range and charisma of the incomparable Denzel Washington. The series kicked off Dec. 1 with Malcolm X—followed … Continue reading The Sie FilmCenter celebrates DENZ-EMBER
‘You Gotta Be Here.’ George Nolfi on His Boulder-Based Sci-Fi Survivalist Flick ELEVATION and the Future of Filmmaking in Colorado
An exterminating force has arrived. They come from below, kill without prejudice and cannot be destroyed by traditional means. The one thing that’ll stop them dead in their tracks is any elevation above 8,000 feet. “Well, the script was originally … Continue reading ‘You Gotta Be Here.’ George Nolfi on His Boulder-Based Sci-Fi Survivalist Flick ELEVATION and the Future of Filmmaking in Colorado
Drama, Drama, Doc: Three Can’t-Miss Movies for the Denver Film Festival’s Final Weekend
The 47th Denver Film Festival wraps Nov. 10 with a slate of seven movies at the Sie FilmCenter, home base for the Denver Film Society. But before we get there, we still have a full weekend of movies playing venues … Continue reading Drama, Drama, Doc: Three Can’t-Miss Movies for the Denver Film Festival’s Final Weekend
A REAL PAIN
Slightly neurotic and a little anxious, David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) moves and talks like he’s wound a bit too tight. He’s the type to use a flood of fast-flowing words to keep his real emotions at bay. Social decorum is … Continue reading A REAL PAIN
CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING
Reporting from the 47th Denver Film Festival. Shot in Estonia back in 2013, the world wasn’t ready for Chainsaws Were Singing, so the filmmakers waited 11 years to release it. Frankly, the world may still not be ready. Winner of … Continue reading CHAINSAWS WERE SINGING
NICKEL BOYS
Destined to be the most talked about movie at the 47th Denver Film Festival—if not the 2024 award season—Nickel Boys is a textbook example of how the telling of a story can sometimes be more significant than the story itself. … Continue reading NICKEL BOYS
Locally Grown: Previewing the 2024 Denver Film Festival
These movies may take you as far away as a dilapidated house deep in the heart of Texas, a disappearing glacier in Iceland, or even as close as a wildlife refuge in Rocky Flats. But they all have one thing … Continue reading Locally Grown: Previewing the 2024 Denver Film Festival
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