By Michael J. Casey - February 20,2024

Tomorrow’s hits, today

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...

By Michael J. Casey - February 13,2024

Short kings

There are no small parts in movies — only those that are long and those that are short. That was the philosophy British filmmaker Michael Powell ascribed to. It’s one...

By Michael J. Casey - February 7,2024

Hollywood gate crashers

They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail: When it’s time to go to...

By Michael J. Casey - January 31,2024

Room for improvement

Of all the film fests hit hard these past four years, none took it on the chin quite like the Sundance Film Festival. First, there was the planned switch from...

By Michael J. Casey - January 24,2024

Cinema springs eternal

You could see Stanley Kubrick’s iconic anti-war film Paths of Glory (Jan. 30). Or maybe you’ll check out Kasi Lemmons’ feature debut Eve’s Bayou on 35 mm (Feb. 3). You...

By Michael J. Casey - January 24,2024

Forget the Alamo, remember ‘Lone Star’

A skull has turned up in the desert along the Texas-Mexico border, and near it lies a sheriff’s badge. So opens John Sayles’ 1996 Lone Star — newly restored and available...

By Michael J. Casey - January 16,2024

Bestselling book, midlevel movie

It’s not about race; it’s about caste — the system of injustice and subjugation that persists, generation from generation, resistant to the individuals who work to defy and shatter it....

By Michael J. Casey - January 10,2024

Scrappy little somebody

If you’re an independent filmmaker, getting into the Sundance Film Festival is high on your wishlist. “It’s such a big festival, and it’s such an industry festival,” Kelly Sears says....

By Michael J. Casey - January 3,2024

Straight, no chaser

Some people bite the hand that feeds them. American Fiction’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison wants to chew it whole and spit it back out. Before we get there, first this: American...

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