Tag: film
Career killer
Something must have been in the water in 1960. All around the world, filmmakers, either at the beginning, middle or the end of their...
Let’s get physical
It’s been nearly two decades since Jessica Rothe called the Front Range home, but the prolific screen actor says she’ll always be “a homegrown...
Dirty talk
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...
‘To build a better world’
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...
Tennis, anyone?
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...
Separation anxiety
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...
Watching out loud
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...
Should’ve been a cowboy
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...
The misanthrope
Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in...
Blood simple
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...
