Watching a Stan Brakhage film is like dreaming with your eyes open. The collision of colors and shadows, images overlapping images, distortions, and rapid-fire editing imprints on your eye and synthesizes in your mind. Close your eyes, and what do … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
We are living in a golden age of cinema. You might not agree if your focus is solely on multiplexes infected with sequilities and franchise-expansion syndrome. And it might not look that way if your only unit of measure is … Continue reading An International State of Mind: Previewing the Fall 2019 International Film Series
The legacy of Orson Welles looms large in the history of cinema. So large, even Welles himself fell into its blackness. “The word genius was whispered into my ear—the first thing I heard—while I was still mewling in my crib,” … Continue reading A Matter of Persistence: Orson Welles
Watching movies in 2019 is no longer a question of where, but why. It could be everywhere: Multiplexes, art house theater, film societies, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, public transportation, parks—name the space and you’ll be able to watch a movie … Continue reading THE CONFORMIST (IL CONFORMISTA)
CU-Boulder’s International Film Series isn’t just Boulder’s first art-house series; it also features one of the best programs out there. From international sensations to genre appreciations, award-winners, and retrospectives, IFS offers the Boulder moviegoing faithful an opportunity to see the … Continue reading Cinema Without Borders: Previewing the 2019 Spring International Film Series
As the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock said, “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” And who does the cutting? Editors. Sifting through hours upon hours of footage, editors construct coherency from a multitude of takes and shape … Continue reading Nick Houy on MID90S
In the last 30 years, we have lost 50% of the world’s coral. This loss is far from arbitrary, and Chasing Coral—the latest documentary from Boulder-based filmmaker Jeff Orlowski—is the photographic evidence people need to emotionally attach to a cause. The … Continue reading Jeff Orlowski on CHASING CORAL
Dear University of Colorado students: If I could offer you one word of advice—no, it’s not sunscreen—it would be this: Resources. Find them, use them, embrace them, stake your college career on them, and you will find yourself a better, … Continue reading Celebrating Stan
The colors belong to the French flag, the corresponding ideas of the Republic: blue, white, and red—liberty, equality, and fraternity. For France, these colors, these ideas, are political. They guide the nation the way Jefferson’s decree, “We hold these truths … Continue reading THREE COLORS
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