Tag: cinema

Move over, J.D. Vance — this month’s underground cinema showcase at the Dairy is truly strange

Like most nonprofit workers, you’ll find Shay Wescott wearing many hats on a given day. Her main job is overseeing fundraising efforts for the Dairy Arts Center as the multidisciplinary...

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 strange is stirring in the wilderness. But unlike the devoted cryptid enthusiasts of reality shows like Finding Bigfoot, you won’t have to camp out in remote reaches of the...

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...

Alejandro dreams of toys. Not crazy, outrageous toys or toys that bring excitement and pleasure, but pensive, melancholy toys reminding kids that time is finite and our actions meaningless. There’s...

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...

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...

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...