Avant-garde film legend Stan Brakhage has been both mythologized and demonized. But few deny he was an unstoppable cinematic force, and his best-known works — Window Water Baby Moving, Mothlight, The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes and Dog Star Man — are critical parts of the avant-garde film…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights selections for November 21 (Watchers of the Sky), November…
Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 keep up with the first two films? Why was the final book split into two movies? Does Katniss even want to be part of this revolution? On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we discuss all things Hunger Games before moving onto a…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Silenced. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events in…
Over the first two Hunger Games films, we’ve watched coal miner’s daughter Katniss Everdeen become the pawn, then the pest, of the Capitol, whose President Snow (Donald Sutherland) has enslaved the adults of the twelve poorer Districts and annually commanded that they together sacrifice 24 of their children to probable…
Writer/director John Herzfeld (15 Minutes, Two of a Kind) earnestly tries but spectacularly fails to dilute the acrid pretentiousness of Reach Me, an everything-is-connected melodrama, by cutting his characters’ pseudo-enlightened philosophizing with goony broad humor. Herzfeld wants ideal viewers to identify with Roger (Kevin Connolly), an online yellow journalist who…
Chihuly. For the past several years, the Denver Botanic Gardens has used its 24 acres of landscaped grounds as a setting for outdoor art exhibits. All have been popular, but none more so than Chihuly, which has attracted well over a million visitors to date. Artist Dale Chihuly, who emerged…
Garfield creator Jim Davis is well aware of the Internet’s cat obsession. In fact, he’s got an upcoming strip about it. “But if I told you the joke, I’d have to kill you,” he deadpans, before cracking his paternal composure with a chuckle. (He did tell me, and I’ve chosen…
No film festival is complete without a few sweet parties, and the Starz Denver Film Festival is no exception. If you’re only going to hit up one of those parties, make sure it’s the one with classic arcade games, DJs and an open bar, all in honor of an award…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Viva La Liberta. See also: The Ten Best Movie…
Every few years a new epidemic sweeps the nation, spreading hysteria among the masses — bird flu, swine flu, mad cow disease and this year’s contender Ebola. The more you hear about it, the more you’re scared. It makes germaphobes looks like geniuses and makes you reconsider ever getting on…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Alleluia. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events in…
At the outset of the 2014 Starz Denver Film Festival, the weather gods seemed angry. Historic low temperatures put a damper on turnout for the Opening Night screening of 5 to 7, and daylong snowfall and the lingering freeze did likewise for Saturday’s Big Night presentation of an infinitely higher…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Viktoria. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events in…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights selections for Friday, November 14 (Free Fall), Saturday, November…
We’re guessing the faces of the folks behind the Starz Denver Film Festival fell as the temperatures dropped in advance of Wednesday’s opening night at the Buell Theatre. They’d already taken a gamble by booking 5 to 7, a low key romance that’s generated relatively little buzz to date, as…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights El Critico. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events…
If the universe is infinitely finite, an entity whose mystery is knowable only through an evolving progression of theories and equations, it’s nothing compared to a marriage. Every marriage or long-term partnership is knowable only to the people inside it — and sometimes not even then. The Theory of Everything…
During a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian journalist who had been imprisoned in Iran for 118 days on espionage charges earlier that year, Jon Stewart said, “We hear a lot about the banality of evil, but so little about the stupidity of evil.” Or about its…
Though it’s tempting to laugh at the endless stream of neologisms and cosmologies that Tumblr hath wrought, the nobility of intent is undeniable: Everyone feels the need to define and understand himself, herself or itself. (If I went through my teenage years as a happy goth, someone else has the…
Discovering and Interpreting the West. This ambitious three-part extravaganza at the Arvada Center highlights Western landscape art. The nineteenth-century examples are in the Theater Gallery, the twentieth-century pieces are on the upper level, and the 21st-century renditions — the main course — are on the lower level. All three were…
Tales of fame and its trappings — and the way they’re never enough to build a life — are as old as show business itself. Maybe for that reason, almost any story about discovering the hollowness of fame is often written off as a cliché. But what’s the difference, really,…
