Academy Awards

Jennifer Jasinski and Frasca Food and Wine win James Beard Foundation awards

The cinema industry has its Oscars and its Golden Globes, the Grammy Awards celebrate the best in music, and the James Beard Awards are every chef's dream, and tonight, at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City, Jennifer Jasinski, chef-owner of Rioja, Euclid Hall and Bistro Vendome, wa ... More >>

A Cat in Paris is a rather bland slice of French animation

Women Watching

Reader: Where is Daniel Junge's marijuana movie?

Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face.. This was Junge's second nomination...but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:

Over the weekend: Blues Traveler, Daniel Junge, Matt Selby and Buffalo Bill

Big pics below.​You were busy this weekend. We know, because we've been keeping track of the phone you had on our Show and Tell, Backbeat Online and Cafe Society blogs, as well as our slide show page. Look below for samples featuring Blues Traveler, Oscar winner Daniel Junge, Matt Selby and B ... More >>

Thank the Academy

Top ten Show and Tell posts of 2011

Number 5​Depending on who you're listening to, the world is going to end in 2012, or the world will undergo some sort of transformation. Either way it's spiritual. What's not spiritual, however, are these cold, hard numbers: The top ten posts on Show and Tell during 2011, which may or may not ... More >>

Fast Eddie turns fifty: Some pool-hall lessons about life's breaks (VIDEO)

​Fifty years ago this week, a modest black-and-white movie about pool sharks and the people who back them, love them or break their thumbs had its world premiere in Washington, D.C. The initial critical reception was mixed, but over time The Hustler would be recognized as a classic, a startli ... More >>

The Legend of Zelda, Louie and more new releases for this week, June 21, 2011

​Just because it's summer doesn't mean we can't all sit indoors and consume entertainment. After all, the hotter and nicer it gets outside, the more you need to just relax and unwind in front of the TV or a good book. Unfortunately, there are apparently no books being released this week, but w ... More >>

The Mayan's Billy Wilder Film Fest leaves out the drama in favor of the comedy

​Billy Wilder is often credited as one of the golden age of film's most diverse and greatest directors -- he was, after all, nominated for several fistfuls of Academy Awards for films like Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment and more. To celebrate his staggering repertoire, the Mayan is kicking of ... More >>

Who Likes Short Shorts?

More Best Of: Top five Colorado film festivals

​In years past, putting together a Best of Denver issue was like Sophie's Choice: In order to choose the favorite baby, all the rest of the babies had to die and then Meryl Streep killed herself. Now we have the vast internets and enough space to choose whatever we desire -- in your face, Nazi ... More >>

Jared Polis and Diana DeGette try to tighten regulations on fracking -- again

"Gasland"​Representatives Diane DeGette and Jared Polis are taking another run at tightening federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique also known as fracking. Introduced this week by the Colorado twosome and fellow Democratic rep Maurice Hinchey from New Yor ... More >>

Tonight: Randy Newman at the Boulder Theater

​Everybody knows Randy Newman -- his comforting, sometimes scruffy and bubble-throated voice has been a recognizable movie soundtrack staple for years. The ragtime piano player has scored over two dozen films -- like this year's Oscar winner for original song, "We Belong Together" from Toy Sto ... More >>

Author Benjamin Hale on Braveheart, chimp sex and Kafka

​We generally don't think much about who is narrating our stories, but in the case of Benjamin Hale's new novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, we have to. Mostly because the narrator is an ape. Hale, who grew up in and around Boulder but who currently lives in New York, will be in town to ... More >>

Oscars vs. Razzies: What does better at the box office?

​This weekend, the best and worst of 2010 in film will be categorically determined (right...) by the Academy and Golden Raspberry Awards, respectively. And while statues are nice, everyone knows that money guides filmmaking to a much greater degree than accolades. So we were wondering -- does ... More >>

RIP Leslie Nielsen: our five favorite clips

Bryan Danknich​Eternally white-haired king of the spoof Leslie Nielsen passed away yesterday at the age of 84, due to complications from pneumonia. His best-known roles varied from the science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet to Airplane!, the king of all cinematic parodies; through that movie ... More >>

Free Movie Time: Sugar Cane Alley at the Blair-Caldwell Library

​Alright, so the original title of Sugar Cane Alley is Rue Cases-Nègres, which means it's French -- so the fact that the film swept the César Awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars) when it was released in 1983 might not mean that much, because French people are snooty and speak a langu ... More >>

Good Food Awards to honor artisan food producers, including salumieres and pickelers

Lori Midson ​It's likely to be the Academy Awards of pickelers, salumieres, cheese-makers, chocolatiers, brewmasters, jam makers and coffee roasters at the Good Food Awards, a new national competition for those who rule -- or think they rule -- the world of hand-crafted foods and suds.

And the Winner Is…

Party Arty

Red Light Special

Straight Talking

Put the turkey in the basket or else it gets the hose again...

Do they give Academy Awards for cameramen on local news remotes? They should, and this year it should go to the guy who shot the now notorious Sarah Palin Turkey Video--the one in which the once-and-future governor was at a Wasilla turkey ranch to give one of those ridiculous Thanksgiving pardons to ... More >>

Slumdog Millionaire makes for a Big Night at the Denver Film Festival

Dev Pateal and Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire. Last year's so-called Big Night at the Denver Film Festival featured Juno, a small-scale comedy about a pregnant teen that inspired the blog "Juno Lives Up to the Hype at the Starz Denver Film Festival" before becoming a left-field box-office ... More >>

Making the Case for Self-Congratulation Among Daily Newspapers

Sabra Cinema

Glen Hansard Nominated for an Oscar

All I Want for Christmas

Resource Madness

A local fest showcases native stories.

Sneak a Peek

The CSFAC is ready for its close-up.

Our top DVD picks for the week of January 30:

Our top DVD picks for the week of July 27, 2006.

This Dogg's Got Bite

Take Your Best Shot

Throwing a few back for Katrina relief.

Flick Pick

Comédies à la Française

Fear Factors

Conspiracy and greed confront the wonder of childhood in I'm Not Scared.

Flick Pick

Hoosiers

Flick Pick

The Animation Show

Honest Apes

The Guerrilla Girls use humor to break down barriers for minorities.

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife.

Road Warriors

Amores Perros sears its characters (dogs included) to a crisp as it leads them to a kind of redemption.

Short Story

Aspen is long on short films during its tenth annual festival.

Baby, It's You

The Legend of 1900 sets sail for the high seas.

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

Night & Day

April 30 - May 6, 1998

Artsbeat

Closet Case

ROLL 'EM

RAIN OF TERROR