The Reel Deal: 8th Annual Boulder International Film Festival
The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) has quietly emerged as one of the ‘coolest film festivals in the world.’ Celebrating the spirit of Independent Film for the last 8 years, the BIFF annually pays tribute to films and filmmakers from around the world with screenings, parties, workshops, red carpet premieres, and many star sightings like...
The Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) has quietly emerged as one of the ‘coolest film festivals in the world.’ Celebrating the spirit of Independent Film for the last 8 years, the BIFF annually pays tribute to films and filmmakers from around the world with screenings, parties, workshops, red carpet premieres, and many star sightings like...
Moving Pictures: Pretty Lights, Camera, Action
Derek Vincent Smith, Pretty Lights by night, has already conquered the concert industry with his new music distribution model and sophisticated visual spectacle. Will the film world be next? Re:Generation, a Grammy-backed documentary that sees limited release starting today, features Colorado hero Smith, along with Skrillex, the surviving Doors, Erykah Badu, Mos Def, LeAnn Rimes,...
The Reel Deal: 2012 Movie Preview
So far, the 2012 movie cycle is off to a fairly predictable start as Hollywood waits to crown its Best Picture for 2011 at the Oscars (Sunday, February 26th) while simultaneously, rolling out many unsavory leftovers to fill the void before spring. Among them, One for the Money, The Vow, Underworld Awakening, Red Tails, Loosies,...
Read Alert: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: More books to movies! And I’m excited about this one, as one should be with such big names as Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. But. I also will never forget the first time I read this book, right as Jonathan Safran Foer’s genius swept the nation. I was perfectly caught...
Sundance Spy: The End
Sadly, time at Sundance flies fast and I crammed as much as possible into the last 36 hours of my festival. Many of the stars fled to their Hollywood habitats by Monday and the glitz factor on Main Street returned to a semi-normal level. The A-list exodus lets the diehard cinephiles do more of what...
Re:Generation Music Project unites Skrillex, The Doors & more
Surviving members of The Doors were in the studio with Skrillex. Nas and DJ Premier wrote with the Berklee Symphony Orchestra. The Crystal Method collaborated with Martha Reeves (The Vandellas) and The Funk Brothers. Pretty Lights recorded with LeAnn Rimes. Mark Ronson sat in on a session with Mos Def, Erykah Badu, The Dap Kings,...
Sundance Spy: Day 4
Please forgive my mid-festival hiatus…the Sundance shenanigans are nonstop. I’m back in blogging action and day four in Park City was just my type of “Sunday Funday.” After mingling with industry types and patrons the night before at the official “Late Night Lounge Hosted by Sundance London,” I missed the early morning premiere of Madrid,...
Sundance Spy: Day 3
It’s a good thing we were snowed in today since we called it a night around 4:30 a.m. and needed some serious R&R. The exclusive late night after-party of Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie at the Blue Iguana was filled with Sundance shenanigans with open bar, loud beats, and cameos by Parks & Recreation’s...
Sundance Spy: Day 2
6:30 a.m. was way too early for our iPhone alarms to go off this morning. But, catching the premiere of Your Sister’s Sister was well worth the lack of sleep. The sold out film was at the top of our list and we were sadly sans tickets. Luckily, there’s still a way to get a...
Sundance Spy: Day 1
303 Magazine headed even further west today and is live from Park City, Utah bringing you insider access from the Sundance Film Festival. We’re rolling through town with the Denver Film Society (DFS) for the next five days and have a jam-packed schedule of film premieres, A-list events, and after-parties. I know…it’s going to be...
The Reel Deal: Top 10 Movies of 2011
We sure do love our sequels, don’t we? They’re comfortable and cozy. They’re mindless and blandly entertaining. They feature recycled characters and plots. And they’re relatively cheap and easy to make, which equates to instant “bankability” at the box office, i.e. Hollywood’s own version of Moneyball. So, it should come as no surprise that we...
Read Alert: Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Rarely, but sometimes, I’ll see a movie before reading the book. And until my husband and I watched the Swedish versions of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo movies, I hadn’t really even paid attention to the book series. We streamed all three movies in a weekend, quickly sucked up into the complicated and fast-paced...
