File Under Must See: Cuz it’s Twilight, duh
Cedric Diggory was a brave and true boy. Just a refresher, he was the handsome lad in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire who met his gruesome fate at the hands of a snake-faced dark lord whose name must NOT be spoken. Tragic, as he was sooo handsome, comparable even to Edward Cullen of...
iMovie: Steve Jobs’ Lost Interview
Think Apple is the greatest thing since sliced bread? Then you won’t want to miss Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, screening tonight and tomorrow at The Esquire. Originally taped during Jobs’ wilderness years for a PBS miniseries called Triumph of the Nerds, the complete footage was thought lost to history until the director recently dug...
The Reel Deal: It’s a Wrap
After twelve days of sensational cinema, the 34th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival came to a close on Sunday. But not before breaking last year’s records in attendance (+50,000), number of films screened (250), and number of countries represented (47). One of the region’s leading film events, the SDFF entertained thousands of cinephiles and welcomed...
The Reel Deal: Discovering Documentaries
Over the years, Colorado has developed some serious game when it comes to documentary filmmaking. In 1997, Donna Dewey took home an Oscar for her short, A Story of Healing, detailing the charitable efforts of American plastic surgeons helping Vietnamese children born with physical defects. Then, in 2010, Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove captured the Academy...
Starz Denver Film Festival: Hot Picks for Closing Weekend
For the love of movies, this has been a spectacular film festival. As someone who attends a lot of these shindigs, I have been amazed at the high ratio of great movies to bad at this year’s Starz Denver Film Festival. You could throw a rock in Denver and hit a great film this week....
Ultimate Twilight Marathon: This is actually happening.
The all-annoying, ridiculous term “Twihard” conjures images of either an all-male ménage a trois, or a really horny Cerberus. But in reality, this massacre of language has to do with those who have a raging boner for sparkly vampires, over-hormoned werewolves, and a dopey girl stuck between their two worlds. Yes, that’s right … The...
The Reel Deal: Stars Aplenty
Last week, the 34rd Annual Starz Denver Film Festival launched with a frenzy of red carpet roll outs. On opening night, director Drake Doremus ushered in the Denver premiere of Like Crazy, a love story for the Y Generation, depicting a heartbreaking romance across two continents. Doremus easily won the crowd over with his film....
Starz Denver Film Festival: Conquering Festival Fatigue
The Starz Denver Film Festival is the ultimate staycation. Without traveling more than a few miles from home, you can attend a Broadway one-act musical competition (One Night Stand, playing Tuesday at 9:45pm) or hop an international flight to India to study with world renowned musician Ali Akbar Kahn (Play Like a Lion, Tuesday at...
The Reel Deal: Colorado Filmmaker Spotlight
The lack of filmmaking incentives in Colorado is well documented. And yet, Colorado filmmaking continues to thrive, as many filmmakers prefer to stay and work locally rather than move to Los Angeles or New York. In 2009, three films with Colorado connections made their way to the Academy Awards. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’...
Starz Denver Film Festival: Weekend Picks
With over 250 films playing over the next 10 days, the 34th year of the Starz Denver Film Festival is the biggest yet. The sheer crush of movies sounds insane enough in the abstract … and that feeling is exacerbated when perusing the festival schedule, your eyes glazing over in an attempt to make heads...
Starz Denver Film Festival: midnight movie magic
For a few years now, Starz Denver Film Festival programmer Keith Garcia has shocked and delighted late night festival-goers with his Watching Hour “midnight movie” program. From zombies to martial arts to who-knows-what, The Watching Hour has become a perennial home away from home for movie lovers whose tastes fall left of the dial. As...
Red Carpet Report: Starz Denver Film Festival Opening Night
The theme for the 34th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival is “Roll Out the Red” … and that’s exactly what went down last night at the glorious Ellie Calkins Opera House. In a scene more Hollywood than Denver, producers, directors, talent and various festival VIPs strutted their stuff on the red carpet amidst a cacophony...
