Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is blogging regularly from the Toronto Film Festival.This is her fourth in the series. As the summer of self-plagiarism comes to a close, add Terrence Malick to the list of those accused of this debatable crime: The auteur’s quick follow-up to…
File under you know you’re in Boulder when….Promoters of the Reel Rock Tour announced last night that tickets for the kickoff of their package tour of the year’s best climbing films on Thursday at Chautauqua Auditorium have already sold out, and that there are only about 100 tickets left out…
Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is blogging regularly from the Toronto Film Festival.This is her third in the series. For maybe the first hour of Yellow (written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, the man responsible for the national treasure that is The Notebook), I kept thinking…
Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at the Toronto Film Festival, from where she’ll be writing regular blog posts. This is her second in the series. The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film…
The vicious international terrorists of COBRA could never stop GI Joe, but he’s finally met his match, at least temporarily. This year’s GI Joe Fest — an annual film festival of stop-motion animation starring everyone’s favorite military action figure — that was scheduled for Saturday, September 22 has been canceled…
Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at the Toronto Film Festival, from where she’ll be writing regular blog posts. This is her first in the series. This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours…
Colorado-grown Design OnScreen, a non-profit working for the preservation of modern architecture through film, has been hard at work. Just back from the Biennale Architettura in Venice in late August, the organization is now hosting its fourth annual Architectural + Design Film Series, a month of movies celebrating several eras,…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
Spike Lee returns to the Brooklyn neighborhoods of his most famous works — including his celebrated debut, Do the Right Thing — with Red Hook Summer, and an early, sustained single take, tracking his protagonists as they navigate a courtyard in the projects, suggests that this trip home has reinvigorated…
Remember back when Bridesmaids was released, and Manohla Dargis referred to it as “unexpectedly funny”? It’s amazing what still survives the editorial gauntlet at the New York Times; it’s like the Whig Intelligencer-Tribune over there. And then a couple of months ago, podcast host Adam Carolla cast his douchey feelings…
Weddings make such bitchin’ film scenarios because the stakes are believably high: If anything goes wrong, social opprobrium, the loss of your beloved or both can ensue, right in front of your disdainful parents, the clergy, and probably Vince Vaughn. Directors have placed every obvious symbol of holy union in…
“I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Paul Thomas Anderson says on an unseasonably mild August afternoon in the Astoria section of Queens, where later tonight he will preview his latest film for an invited audience at the…
The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of the Lost Ark by holing up in his hotel room with a suitcase full of SpaghettiOs. Like most studio-approved behind-the-scenes errata,…
Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing premiered The Elder this week, the final film in director Skip Armstrong’s five-part Of Souls + Water series. Armstrong calls the film “a dreamy, contemplative, non-literal piece” about Rob Elliot, 68, a Grand Canyon river guide with more than 200 trips…
Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer, the debut feature film from Bizjack FlemCo, features zombies, bowling and a seriously weird twist, all wrapped up in a gore-splattered, over-the-top sensibility that should be familiar to fans of Troma. The locally made film will get its proper Denver debut at the Denver Indie…
In The Revenant, a soldier dies in Iraq, only to awaken back home as a member of the living dead. But this particular undead guy isn’t quite a vampire, and he isn’t quite a zombie — he’s a revenant, a restless spirit returned in corporeal form. From that relatively straightforward…
Continental Drift. To create Continental Drift, MCA Denver curator Nora Burnett Abrams and Aspen Art Museum curator Jacob Proctor looked at the work of more than 300 Colorado artists who had submitted portfolios. Abrams and Proctor then winnowed the hundreds of submitters down to a mere twenty and scheduled them…
Social media’s role in the would-be Iranian revolution of 2009 is by this point much hyped, but no one has yet covered it quite like Ali Samadi Ahadi in The Green Wave. In both form and content, the filmmaker refuses the orthodox, eschewing the official record in favor of narrated…
Calling back many of the same characters and more than a few of the same jokes, 2 Days in New York, Julie Delpy’s fourth film as writer-director, is a sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris. Itself a spinoff of sorts, Paris piggybacked on the popularity of 2004’s justly…
After its Sundance premiere, Compliance might be infamous as the film that inspired a woman to cry out “Rape is not entertainment!” However, writer/director Craig Zobel is not Daniel Tosh. Judging from the film itself, which keeps its final sexual assault entirely off-screen, Zobel seems to agree with that heckler/critic…
A winter storm of ski and snowboard video premiere parties will pummel Denver and Boulder over the next two months, as local theaters roll out the white carpet for VIPs (Very Important Pros), local/national/international filmmakers and snow-dancing revelers. We’ve put together the most comprehensive guide we could muster — with…
Zachary Byron Helm pushes the boundaries of horror in his upcoming film, Death Hearse on Satan’s Titty Highway, which he’s filming right here, right now in Englewood. And it should be a wild ride. See also: – Q&A: Artist Daniel Crosier of Mother Mind Studios – Ten weird movie references…
