Many filmmakers have strode the hallowed halls of the University of Colorado Boulder: Derek Cianfrance, Dalton Trumbo, and Alex Cox are just a few, but if there is one name that towers over the rest it is the godfather of … Continue reading Images from the Underground: Previewing the 2017 Brakhage Center Symposium
To borrow a line from French filmmaker and critic Jean-Luc Godard, “Cinema is everywhere.” And from March 4-6, cinema is indeed everywhere in Boulder. Around Boulder, Longmont, and Broomfield, the Boulder International Film Festival screens over 50 features, documentaries, and … Continue reading Cinema’s Walk on the Wild Side: Previewing the 2016 Brakhage Center Symposium
Art is a sense of magic. —Stan Brakhage Continue reading Born On This Day — January 14, 1933
I’ve come to like the term “poetic film.” Now there are dangers in it. Poetry is a totally different art than film. But it separates what my contemporaries and I do from the Hollywood movie, in a way that doesn’t assume that one … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, May 27, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 