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Boulder Weekly, Sunday Streams

SAFETY LAST!

July 4, 2021May 13, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Harold Lloyd’s Glasses character was a real go-getter. The middle-class boy next door could accomplish anything  he put his mind to. And it made him immensely popular with the rah-rah-rah mentality of the Roaring Twenties. 1923’s Safety Last! might be his best, … Continue reading SAFETY LAST!

Boulder Weekly, Reviews, Sunday Streams

OBIT.

June 27, 2021May 13, 2022 Michael J. Casey

How do you sum up a life in 500 words? That’s the problem Bruce Weber, a veteran obituary writer for the New York Times, faces every morning at 9. Weber’s desk is cluttered with biographies and memoirs ranging from Keith Richards’s Life to basketball … Continue reading OBIT.

Boulder Weekly, Sunday Streams

THE TRIAL

May 23, 2021May 15, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Based on a novel by Franz Kafka, The Trail is filmmaker Orson Welles at his most Wellesian. Anthony Perkins stars as K, a man accused of a crime he neither committed nor comprehends. K can ask all the questions he wants, but … Continue reading THE TRIAL

Boulder Weekly, Sunday Streams

HIGH AND LOW (天国と地獄)

May 16, 2021May 15, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Comfort watching comes in all shapes in sizes. Sometimes it’s a chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff. Other times it’s Gene Kelly dancing with an umbrella and splashing around in puddles. Diversion, you could call it: A moment of … Continue reading HIGH AND LOW (天国と地獄)

Boulder Weekly, Reviews, Sunday Streams

MARTIN EDEN

May 2, 2021May 2, 2021 Michael J. Casey

His name is Martin Eden (Luca Marinelli), and he calls no nation home. He’s a sailor by trade—the kind mothers warn their daughters about: tall, dark, and handsome with a few roguish scars and a spectacular head of hair. He’s … Continue reading MARTIN EDEN

Boulder Weekly, Sunday Streams

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

April 25, 2021April 21, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Director Jacques Demy sought to make a movie that would make audiences cry. He succeeded in spades. It helps that Michelle Legrande provided one of the most indelible film scores of all time, and cinematographer Jean Rabier found the sourness … Continue reading THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

Boulder Weekly, Essays, Sunday Streams, Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick Retrospective

April 11, 2021April 10, 2021 Michael J. Casey

There comes a moment, nearly three-quarters through the abysmally dull and bizarre Deadhead Miles—starring Alan Arkin as a long-haul truck driver—where Arkin takes another driver aside to show him something in his cab. Curious, the driver peers into the truck and … Continue reading Terrence Malick Retrospective

Boulder Weekly, Interviews

Ramin Bahrani

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Today, Netflix releases the latest from writer/director Ramin Bahrani, The White Tiger, an adaptation of Indian author Aravind Adiga’s debut novel about the rise of Balram (Adarsh Gourav) from a coal breaker’s son to driven entrepreneur. Told in flashback and at … Continue reading Ramin Bahrani

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

63 UP

January 12, 2021January 14, 2021 Michael J. Casey

On Jan. 7, 2021, British filmmaker Michael Apted died in his Los Angeles’ home. He was 79. Though Apted enjoyed a prolific career in film and television, he will always be remembered for his participation in the groundbreaking documentary, The … Continue reading 63 UP

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