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2006 Stories by Bill Gallo

• Jaws

  published June 1, 2006

  Long before Steven Spielberg tackled the horrors of Nazi Germany or set out to save Private Ryan, he came up with the most captivating fish story... More >>

• Macbeth

  published May 18, 2006

  A new interpretation of Macbeth, filmed in Denver and the mountains west of Golden and set in contemporary corporate America, will... More >>

• Unamerican Dream

  published May 11, 2006

  The lovable hero of Goal! The Dream Begins is the kind of guy some Americans don't find very appealing these days -- a Mexican... More >>

• From Subway With Love

  published May 11, 2006

  If that plucky seeker of bliss Bridget Jones lived in the Czech Republic, she might be something like Laura (Zuzana Kanoczova), the 23-year-old... More >>

• Home Life in Hell

  published May 4, 2006

  World-weary skeptics might be tempted to pass on Icíar Bollaín's Take My Eyes the moment they learn its heroine is yet... More >>

• Troubled Water

  published May 4, 2006

  If some religious extremists in India had gotten their way, the gorgeous fury of Deepa Mehta's Water never would have reached the... More >>

• White Heat

  published May 4, 2006

  Among Warners Brothers' classic gangster movies, the post-war gem White Heat (1949) may outrank even Little Caesar, I Am a... More >>

• All Gave Some

  published April 27, 2006

  The impassioned new documentary Sir! No Sir! never mentions the words "Iraq" or "Afghanistan." It doesn't have to. Unseen and... More >>

• Here's Your Insight, Pal

  published April 20, 2006

  Vast legions embrace the thing as gospel. Skeptics dismiss it as ecstatic nonsense. In any event, James Redfield's peculiar novel, The... More >>

• Central and East European Film Festival

  published April 20, 2006

  The second Central and East European Film Festival gets under way on the University of Colorado's Boulder campus Monday, April 24, with a... More >>

• Harkins Northfield 18

  published April 13, 2006

  Tired of the same old multiplex? Last Friday, the Harkins Northfield 18 at Stapleton opened for business, offering Denver movie-goers the... More >>

• Unholy Rollers

  published April 6, 2006

  The raunchy cult favorite Unholy Rollers (1972) features gorgeous Playboy Playmate Claudia Jennings as the rebellious star of... More >>

• Ballets Russes

  published March 30, 2006

  Balletomanes are bound to adore Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine's lavish documentary Ballets Russes (2005), which recalls the... More >>

• Sword of Doom and Samurai Rebellion

  published March 16, 2006

  Get out the whetstone and the blade, kids. Two of the most extreme Japanese samurai movies ever made are headed (or beheaded) for Boulder this... More >>

• Hoop Dreams Come True

  published March 16, 2006

  Through the Fire (Disney) He's averaging just nine points in his second season for the Portland Trail Blazers, but considering where he... More >>

• Let's Make a Deal

  published March 9, 2006

  It's hard to imagine President Dwight D. Eisenhower shackled in a cage at Guantanamo Bay. But if Ike were around today to say what he said in 1961... More >>

• C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America

  published March 9, 2006

  Kevin Willmott's satirical fantasy, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, embraces the fictions that the South won the Civil... More >>

• The 11th Day

  published March 2, 2006

  Financed on a budget of just $500,000 (by San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos) and produced by a skeleton crew of four young filmmakers, a new... More >>

• Short 'n' Sweet

  published February 23, 2006

  Unless smiled upon by the pooh-bahs of PBS or the lords of cable, the makers of most short films are doomed to obscurity -- at least in this... More >>

• Spaceballs

  published February 23, 2006

  For a while there, Mel Brooks made a fine career out of satirizing Hollywood itself, taking dead aim at Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers,... More >>

• Primal Fur

  published February 16, 2006

  Penguins, shmenguins. If you want some new insight into the codes of animal behavior, have a look at Eight Below, an inspirational... More >>

• Four film Louis Malle retrospective

  published February 16, 2006

  Mainstream American audiences are most familiar with the U.S.-made films of the late Louis Malle -- including the sensual New Orleans period piece... More >>

• Diamond in the Rough

  published February 9, 2006

  This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy,... More >>

• Denver Jewish Film Festival

  published February 9, 2006

  The tenth Denver Jewish Film Festival gets under way Thursday, February 9, with a 7:30 p.m. showing of Isn¹t This a Time!, a... More >>

• The Nude Bomb

  published February 2, 2006

  The studied British theatricality and sharp wit of Mrs. Henderson Presents are likely to make it a favorite among nostalgiaphiles,... More >>