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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...
As soon as John Carroll Lynch started acting as a teenager, it’s been serious business. Looking back on his performances at the Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, the Boulder-born...
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...
It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go. But one look at the small New Mexico town where Loves...
When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station. But that’s exactly what attracted her...
She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares with her son. She takes a...
You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s Prince Hal making good. His name...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....