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Academy Awards

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, March 9-11, 2012

    Don't know what to do this weekend? We've got you covered. From a bike-themed art show to an all-female performance group, to John Waters's favorite movie, this is your events guide all in one place. The best part? None of these events will cost you more than a Hamilton. Get up, get out, and enjoy t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 1, 2012

    Women Watching

    Don't know what to do this weekend? We've got you covered. From a bike-themed art show to an all-female performance group, to John Waters's favorite movie, this is your events guide all in one place. The best part? None of these events will cost you more than a Hamilton. Get up, get out, and enjoy t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 23, 2012

    Thank the Academy

    Don't know what to do this weekend? We've got you covered. From a bike-themed art show to an all-female performance group, to John Waters's favorite movie, this is your events guide all in one place. The best part? None of these events will cost you more than a Hamilton. Get up, get out, and enjoy t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2012

    10 things to do for $10 this weekend, January 27-29, 2012

    As the end of the month approaches -- and the rent is due -- other expenses fall by the wayside. We start making bizarre food concoctions out of whatever is left in the fridge and skimp on luxuries, like shampoo. But even though the landlord is looking for us, it's no reason to skimp on fun. Here's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2011

    Starz Denver Film Festival 2011: Five red carpet events, Big Night screening of The Descendants

    "The Descendants."​Next Monday, October 17, the Starz Denver Film Festival's website will go live with the entire 2011 lineup, and it's a hefty one: a whopping 260 flicks will unspool November 2-13. But today, fest executive director Tom Botelho offers us a preview of the highest profile movi ... More >>

  • Film

    August 18, 2011

    One Day doesn't offer much in the way of guilty pleasures

    "The Descendants."​Next Monday, October 17, the Starz Denver Film Festival's website will go live with the entire 2011 lineup, and it's a hefty one: a whopping 260 flicks will unspool November 2-13. But today, fest executive director Tom Botelho offers us a preview of the highest profile movi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2011

    A Reel Good Time

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Starz Denver Film Festival Closing Night: If Black Swan isn't a comedy, why is it so funny?

    "Black Swan."​The Starz Denver Film Festival has lately gotten very good at choosing future Academy Award nominees or winners to spotlight on its highest profile evenings -- and given the Oscar buzz surrounding Black Swan, Saturday's closing-night offering at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Acme Novelty Library #20, by Chris Ware, and other new releases this week, November 9, 2010

    ​Apparently this week is "awesome book week" because three of our picks come from trees, while another is based on a book. Okay, it's possible we're just attempting to show off the fact that we have the ability to read, but even so, a book from our last president, a comic collection from one o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Ken Buck has a gay name according to Saturday Night Live: Is he a closet Midnight Cowboy?

    Seth Meyers does Ken Buck.​Congrats, Ken Buck. One poll shows your lead over Michael Bennet in the Senate race has shrunk to a dead heat, likely due to your comparison of homosexuality to alcoholism and suggestion that global warming is a hoax, not to mention that "buyer's remorse" comment abo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 25, 2010

    War and Pieces

    Seth Meyers does Ken Buck.​Congrats, Ken Buck. One poll shows your lead over Michael Bennet in the Senate race has shrunk to a dead heat, likely due to your comparison of homosexuality to alcoholism and suggestion that global warming is a hoax, not to mention that "buyer's remorse" comment abo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2010

    And the Winner Is…

    Seth Meyers does Ken Buck.​Congrats, Ken Buck. One poll shows your lead over Michael Bennet in the Senate race has shrunk to a dead heat, likely due to your comparison of homosexuality to alcoholism and suggestion that global warming is a hoax, not to mention that "buyer's remorse" comment abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Daniel Junge, Academy Award nominee, goes to pot

    ​Daniel Junge is an accomplished filmmaker who just netted an Academy Award nomination for his short documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner -- and he manages to make his movies from a home base of Denver. Junge, who traveled to the Amazonian jungle to film They Killed Sister ... More >>

  • Film

    April 16, 2009

    Scandinavian Film Festival at Starz FilmCenter

    ​Daniel Junge is an accomplished filmmaker who just netted an Academy Award nomination for his short documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner -- and he manages to make his movies from a home base of Denver. Junge, who traveled to the Amazonian jungle to film They Killed Sister ... More >>

  • Film

    April 2, 2009

    Skills Like This

    ​Daniel Junge is an accomplished filmmaker who just netted an Academy Award nomination for his short documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner -- and he manages to make his movies from a home base of Denver. Junge, who traveled to the Amazonian jungle to film They Killed Sister ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 26, 2009

    Get Shorty

    Size doesn’t matter at the Aspen Shortsfest.

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Slumdog Millionaire's triumph also a victory for the Denver Film Festival

    Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in "Slumdog Millionaire." The eight Oscars collected last night by Slumdog Millionaire during last night's 81st Academy Awards presentation didn't just reflect well on the Hollywood film community, which chose to reward an oddball tale chock-a-block with subtitles and se ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Easy on the Cheese

    Mitch Albom’s And the Winner Is… is no sob story with Morrie.

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    Flick Pick

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    Making the Case for Self-Congratulation Among Daily Newspapers

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2008

    The Swell Season Caps a Swell Season

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2007

    Dalton Trumbo Statue Set for Unveiling

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 4, 2007

    Resource Madness

    A local fest showcases native stories.

  • Home Entertainment

    February 1, 2007

    Our top DVD picks for the week of January 30:

    A local fest showcases native stories.

  • Calendar

    August 17, 2006

    X Marks the Spot

    A local fest showcases native stories.

  • Calendar

    November 17, 2005

    A Doc in the House

    DocuWeek gives viewers a glimpse of rare films.

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2005

    Best Program at the 2004 Denver International Film Festival

    An Evening With Morgan Freeman

  • Film

    February 10, 2005

    Flick Pick

    Comédies à la Française

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2005

    Machine Dreams

    CU delves into the Sublime.

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2004

    The Taming of the Busker

    A one-man play combines drama and juggling

  • Film

    August 26, 2004

    Flick Pick

    12th Annual Denver International World Cinema Independent Fall Film Festival

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    Pop Quiz

    Heaven and Helluloid
    February 26, 2004

  • Film

    October 16, 2003

    Flick Pick

    The Animation Show

  • Calendar

    March 27, 2003

    Best Locally Produced Documentary

    Chiefs

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2003

    Free For All

    Highlighting the week's greatest gratis event

  • Film

    April 12, 2001

    Road Warriors

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

  • Film

    June 1, 2000

    Neigh! Neigh!

    A lack of horse sense reins in Running Free.

  • Film

    May 4, 2000

    Kenya Dig It?

    A wobbly Basinger and a feeble screenplay doom I Dreamed of Africa.

  • Calendar

    August 20, 1998

    Night & Day

    August 20 - 26, 1998

  • Film

    April 2, 1998

    Local Celluloid

    August 20 - 26, 1998

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    September 25, 1997

    Closet Case

    August 20 - 26, 1998

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    October 11, 1995

    ROLL 'EM

    August 20 - 26, 1998

  • Film

    April 12, 1995

    RAIN OF TERROR

    August 20 - 26, 1998

  • Film

    May 25, 1994

    STUD MOVIE

    August 20 - 26, 1998

  • News

    March 2, 1994

    OFF LIMITS

    August 20 - 26, 1998

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