On Friday, Jan. 5, the Denver Film Critics Society—19 writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2023. In total, 33 movies received nominations, with … Continue reading And the nominees are…
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch—later rechristened Mean Streets—he hardly thought he was changing how movies would look and move. The kid who grew up on Elizabeth Street in … Continue reading MEAN STREETS
Every April, tiny flowers spread like confetti across the blackjack hills of Oklahoma. This is Osage Territory—land carved out and granted to the Osage Nation in the 19th century after they were forced out of Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas. Here … Continue reading KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Not since the pandemic of 2020 (and 2021, 2022…) has the film calendar looked this uncertain. A dual strike from the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild has barred many creatives from promoting their movies, causing some … Continue reading Season’s Screenings: 2023 Fall Movie Preview
Burt and Harold have been accused of murder. Not in the legal sense, mind you, with arrests and affidavits, attorneys and judges, but in the old-fashioned way of finger-pointing and yelling louder than everyone else. You see, Burt Berendsen (Christian … Continue reading AMSTERDAM
Movies echo movies. Sometimes in the minds of the filmmakers: Conversations in sound and image across time and space. Sometimes in the viewer’s minds: Stories ping-ponging their way through a couple of thousand years of recorded history. More often than … Continue reading AMERICAN BOY: A PROFILE OF STEVEN PRINCE
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious and charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country One of the best scenes in … Continue reading 2019: Something To Do With Death
Who is Frank talking to? That was the question posed as a group of us exited The Irishman. One was a film programmer, the other four: film professors—the fixating kind. But the question was valid. Who is Frank Sheeran (Robert De … Continue reading THE IRISHMAN
The Irishman begins in darkness. A small box of light at the center of the frame opens like an iris, and we see nurses and doctors. It looks like a hospital, but this is no beginning; this is the end: A … Continue reading THE IRISHMAN
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