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Repertory Cinema Wishlist: The Duellists

Before the original Alien clinched stardom for director Ridley Scott, back when Blade Runner was just a twinkle in Scott's imaginative eye, there was his first film, The Duellists, a Napoleonic-era yarn based on a slip of a real incident that was later embellished into a short story by Joseph Conrad ... More >>

Go inside The Shining documentary Room 237 with director Rodney Ascher

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it's really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time feature director Rodney Ascher has gone deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone before him, bringing ... More >>

Derek Cianfrance, director of The Place Beyond the Pines, on almost killing his cinematographer

At first, it's unnerving just how much writer-director Derek Cianfrance sounds like Dan, the character he wrote in Blue Valentine, as played by Ryan Gosling. It's a sign of the close synergy between director and actor that marks his approach to films like his latest, The Place Beyond the Pines. Like ... More >>

My Amityville Horror filmmakers on getting personal with America's most famous haunting

The Amityville Horror is the best-known haunting in American history, spawning multiple films, countless books and speculation to this day about what really happened more than thirty years ago. At this point, it seems like there couldn't be any angle on the story that hasn't been beaten to death -- ... More >>

Artist Jay Shaw on his love of bizarre cinema and even more bizarre film posters

"If I can avoid putting anything from the movie in the movie poster, then I'm doing okay," says artist Jay Shaw. His film- poster art, which has taken off over the past year as he's worked with Austin collectible art boutique Mondo, rarely includes characters, actors or anything from the actual movi ... More >>

Horror docs will highlight film fest's Watching Hour program

The full lineup of the 2012 Starz Denver Film Fest won't be released until next week, but fans of the weird, dark and twisted elements of the festival's programming got a sneak peek Friday when the festival's Watching Hour lineup was revealed. This year's batch of late-night favorites includes the b ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 (7 free!) this weekend, October 5-7

October is finally here, and that means pumpkin beer, butternut squash soup and Halloween-themed events all month. But you won't have to fork over a ton of cash to get in on the fun. We've rounded up ten events this weekend that all cost less than $10, from people-watching at a zombie dash to seeing ... More >>

The ten best exorcism movies

With the release of The Devil Inside, out Friday, the cinema gods are taking a moment to remind all of us that religion is scary -- It's all higher powers and judgments and abductions by beings of light and women turning into salt and beings of pure good offset by beings of pure evil, and all of tha ... More >>

Revolutionary Road

Little Misses

Introducing the best movies of 2005 you probably didn't see.

You Got Served

For a fun way to pass the time, you could do worse than Waiting...

Our top DVD picks for the week of October 4.

Quelle Horreur!

The scariest thing about High Tension is the awful dubbing.

Ghost in the Machinist

Christian Bale chases phantoms and loses sleep in Brad Anderson's latest.

Virtual Family

It's the Spy Kids in 3-D, but where are Mom and Dad?

X-phile

The horror! The horror! For Barry McDonald, believing is not always seeing.

I See Dull People!

The only thing more boring than the surface of this Ford/Pfeiffer “thriller” is What Lies Beneath.