On this week’s edition of After Image, I talk with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a slew of new releases via virtual theaters: Trolls World Tour, The Booksellers (partnering with the Sie Film Center in Denver), Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The … Continue reading
In compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, and Gov. Jared Polis’ decree, movie theaters are shuttered until mid-April. Or at least until mid-April—it could be longer. And with no … Continue reading In Lieu of a Theatrical Experience
On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss The Gentlemen (and what makes a work of art feel “derivative”) and Cinema noir et blanc, a new three-day film series at the … Continue reading
When François Truffaut penned his revolutionary essay, “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema,” the up-and-coming critic laid waste to what he saw as a national tradition of quality: A stultifying funeral procession of moviemaking that could barely keep up with … Continue reading MY JOURNEY THROUGH FRENCH CINEMA
There is a special kind of joy that accompanies revisiting a favorite movie time and time again. We see ourselves in the faces of those on screen, their problems as ours, and no matter how long ago the movie was … Continue reading Randall Harper on IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Looking for a way to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month? The Sie Film Center has a few for you, 15 in fact. Back for a third go around, CineLatino is one of the Front Range’s newest and best film festivals, and … Continue reading Cine Otro: Previewing the 2016 CineLatino
If I have seen further,” Sir Isaac Newton wrote to his peer, Robert Hooke, “it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” The line is well-known, but it isn’t Newton’s. Like many before and after him, Newton drew on … Continue reading THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (隠し砦の三悪人)
This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. That line from John Ford’s seminal 1962 western, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, doesn’t just encapsulate the movie’s theme, Ford’s overall career, or even the entirety of the … Continue reading Print the Legend: Westerns at the Sie Film Center
Mike Nichols was a rare one. He began in comedy, moved to the stage, and then made his way to Hollywood, where he forever changed the face of cinema. Sandwiched between the French New Wave and the New American Cinema, … Continue reading Mike Nichols: Five Unforgettable Films from a Master
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