From Aug. 10-13, the CinemaQ Film Festival—Denver’s only LGBTQ movie event—returns to the Sie Film Center for four days of screenings, discussion panels, drag parties, and special guests. If you’ve felt that this has been a rather bland and rote … Continue reading CHASING CHASING AMY at 2023 CinemaQ Film Festival
There are some months when life in Colorado is an embarrassment of riches. April is one such month. And those craving moving images and good conversation will have two exceptional choices this weekend. Let’s start in Boulder with the Ebert … Continue reading Local Buzz: 2023 Ebert Interruprtus & Women+Film Festival
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the 1982 documentary, The French (released through Metrograph.com), the recently restored Kyiv Frescoes (available at Kino Now), and Sie Film Center’s latest series, Metaphysical … Continue reading
It’s Tuesday at 3 p.m. outside the Century Theater in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street Mall, and it’s quiet. Too quiet. You’ll have to excuse the cliché, but it fits. This courtyard should be filled with voices of patrons coming and … Continue reading See You at the Movies?
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
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