By Michael J. Casey - Sep. 18, 2024

Cinematic staple

CU’s International Film Series returns for another semester

By Michael J. Casey - Sep. 16, 2024

Change makers

Survive election season with ‘the most significant political films of all time’

By Michael J. Casey - Sep. 16, 2024

Boulder makes the cut

Sundance announces top finalists to host famed film festival

By Michael J. Casey - Sep. 10, 2024

Here comes cinema

Festivals and films for your fall calendar

By Michael J. Casey - Sep. 4, 2024

In the cut

Dispatch from the 51st Telluride Film Festival

By Michael J. Casey - Aug. 28, 2024

Go West

Alex Cox on making his last movie and the re-release of his first

By Michael J. Casey - Aug. 21, 2024

Coming attraction?

Unpacking Boulder's bid for the Sundance Film Festival

By Michael J. Casey - Aug. 14, 2024

Power play

'Sing Sing' reclaims dignity through art

By Michael J. Casey - Aug. 7, 2024

Reality check

“This joy is immense. This hope is infinite. Yet … all is vain and ephemeral.” Those words, spoken in whispered voiceover, express one of the closing thoughts of Cette Maison,...

By Michael J. Casey - Jul. 31, 2024

Love language

Loving cinema is a one-way street. Oh, I love movies. Hell, I love certain movies more than some of the people in my life. But I realize that adoration isn’t...

By Michael J. Casey - Jul. 24, 2024

Hall of mirrors

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...

By Michael J. Casey - Jul. 17, 2024

Satanic panic

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...

By Michael J. Casey - Jul. 8, 2024

Life’s but a walking shadow

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...

By Michael J. Casey - Jul. 2, 2024

Passing the baton

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...

By Michael J. Casey - Jun. 12, 2024

Death becomes her

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...

By Michael J. Casey - Jun. 5, 2024

The man who made the myths

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...

By Michael J. Casey - Jun. 5, 2024

Fasten your seatbelts

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...

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