Nothing screams summer quite like a road trip. The pull of the open road, the freedom to choose this path or that, the small pockets of life one comes across on the way to the destination, the transformative experience of … Continue reading The International Road Movie with Suranjan Ganguly
When the lights dim and a hush falls over the audience at the Cinemark Century Boulder on Feb. 29, the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) will open for the 20th time. That’s nothing to shake a stick at, especially considering … Continue reading Shut Up and Play the Hits: Previewing the 2024 Boulder International Film Festival
It all started with a movie, Lonesome, and the promotional team in charge of booking screenings of the 1928 romantic comedy in various mountain towns. They were Bill and Stella Pence, James Card, and Tom Luddy, cinephiles with more industry … Continue reading Someone to Watch Over Me: Dispatches from the 50th Telluride Film Festival
Reporting from the 2022 Telluride Film Festival. Young Harry Turner left Britain for the battlefields of Afghanistan and came back a troubled man. The things he saw there—the fate of one little girl, in particular—marked Harry so deeply that it’s … Continue reading WILDCAT
To hold a meteorite is to place an object older than the history of humanity in your hand. It’s also to touch a truly foreign object. Where it came from and how long it took to get here, we cannot … Continue reading FIREBALL: VISITORS FROM DARKER WORLDS
Before he was a filmmaker, Peter Bogdanovich was a critic and historian par excellence. Coming of age as the first wave of Hollywood filmmakers were being put out to pasture, Bogdanovich sat at the feet of the men who made … Continue reading THE GREAT BUSTER: A CELEBRATION
If all had gone according to plan, the internet would have made a rather inauspicious debut, but perhaps it wasn’t meant for modesty. On Oct. 29, 1969, two computers—one at the University of California Los Angeles and the other at … Continue reading LO AND BEHOLD: REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD
Every Labor Day weekend since 1974, filmmakers, critics, historians, students, moviegoers, and a handful of outdoorsmen and women converge on the quaint mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, to celebrate the past and present of their beloved art form. They come … Continue reading Simply Potent: Dispatches from the 2016 Telluride Film Festival
In my films landscapes are never just picturesque or scenic backdrops as they often are in Hollywood films. In Aguirre the jungle is never some lush, beautiful environment it might be in a television commercial. Sometimes when you see the … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 5, 1942
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