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Category: Reviews

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

‘New Forms of Cinema.’ Previewing the 2025 Brakhage Symposium

February 20, 2025March 7, 2025 Michael J. Casey

Kelly Sears isn’t impatient, but she’s eager for the 2025 Brakhage Symposium to begin. “I’m ready to hit play and see it unfold,” the CU Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts associate professor and filmmaker says. She’s not alone. For … Continue reading ‘New Forms of Cinema.’ Previewing the 2025 Brakhage Symposium

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

PADDINGTON IN PERU

February 13, 2025February 27, 2025 Michael J. Casey

Though he’s from the jungles of Peru, Paddington is British through and through. Sent to London by his kind and wise Aunt Lucy, the orphaned bear was adopted by the Brown family, named after the train station where they found … Continue reading PADDINGTON IN PERU

Home Video

KING LEAR

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025 Michael J. Casey

In 1985, Jean-Luc Godard—the enfant terrible of the French New Wave—and the Israeli producer Menahem Golan signed a contract on a cocktail napkin: the story of King Lear, written by Norman Mailer, filmed by Godard, ready for the following year’s … Continue reading KING LEAR

Film Festival, KGNU: Metro Arts
February 1, 2025February 1, 2025 Michael J. Casey

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

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

No News is Good News? Dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

January 30, 2025November 28, 2025 Michael J. Casey

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

Home Video, Must-See Westerns

WINCHESTER ’73

January 28, 2025August 9, 2026 Michael J. Casey

When it comes to westerns, 1950 was a banner year. More than 125 features were released that year—a high-water mark the genre would never again see—and many would become emblematic of the genre: John Ford’s Wagon Master, Henry King’s The … Continue reading WINCHESTER ’73

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

January 9, 2025January 30, 2025 Michael J. Casey

A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks. “I’m going to kill myself,” the woman says. “And I want you to be in the room next door when I do.” That … Continue reading THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

Reviews

BETTER MAN

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 Michael J. Casey

Though he never had the cross-Atlantic success of rivals Oasis or a stateside post-boy band solo career à la Ricky Martin coming out of Menudo, Robbie Williams was a massive pop star at a time when Britpop was all the … Continue reading BETTER MAN

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

December 19, 2024January 9, 2025 Michael J. Casey

For Bruce Springsteen, it was the starting snare shot of “Like a Rolling Stone” that kicked open the door to his mind. He’s not wrong. And he’s not alone. That iconic Bob Dylan song has and will stand the test … Continue reading A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

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