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It was the mirrors that caught my attention. I hadn’t seen Jeremy O. Harris’ groundbreaking Slave Play, but Charles McNulty’s review in the Los Angeles Times heralding the West Coast...
The first thing you see is a house inside a boxy frame with rounded edges, like a 16 mm home movie. It’s winter, Jan. 14 to be precise, and a...
Of all Shakespeare’s plays, few hold fascination with artists and audiences quite like The Tragedie of Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet has the romance and Hamlet has the speech, but Macbeth...
Now in its sixth year, the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival (Boulder ENOFF) has become a summer staple. Screening July 11-14 at the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder...
The specter of death hangs over everyone and everything. In the movie Tuesday by writer-director Daina Oniunas-Pusić, that specter takes the form of a size-shifting parrot — a filthy, scarred...
When Orson Welles was asked what filmmakers he admired, he responded, “I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.” Born John Martin...
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...
The child comes from the land of abundance. There is greenery, fruit, water, animals — an entire civilization living and working together inside this Edenic enclave surrounded by hot desert....
The place is filled with glowing neon lights, loud noises and whirling games. Families play and celebrate birthday parties, but down the center aisle shuffles an old-timer apologizing to everyone...
Something must have been in the water in 1960. All around the world, filmmakers, either at the beginning, middle or the end of their careers, swung for the fences. In...
A letter has arrived at the Swan residence, a despicable letter riddled with obscenities and sexual vulgarity. It’s the 19th of its kind, and each one has scandalized dear old...
It was 30 years ago this April that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) first signed on the air. Truly, it wasn’t that big of a deal then: AMC still stood for...
Within every game, there’s a second game playing out inside the first. We can’t always see it, but it’s often much more significant than the one we’re watching. This is...
What are you boys fighting for? That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote finds it in the story...
It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.” So said the late film critic Roger Ebert of...
Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in this remote village of perpetual winter...