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 success and Academy Awards sweetheart. Director Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire, the Big Night pick for the 2008 Denver Film Festival, which screened on Saturday, November 15, at the Ellie Caulkins
Magic Cyclops, in all his majesty.
The focus of November 15's Big Night presentation at 31st annual Starz Denver Film Festival was Slumdog Millionaire, a flick reviewed in the blog "Slumdog Millionaire Makes for a Big Night at the Denver Film Festival." But there was plenty going on outside the Ellie Caulkins Opera House prior to the screening -- including a Magic Cyclops sighting. Look below for more shots of beautiful people, regular people and ornately garbed dancers doing the Slumdog Mil
A report that suggests an aroma for CSU perfume -- the topic of today's blog "Colorado State University Smells Like... Deer and Locker Rooms?" -- wasn't only the unusual mention of this state we're in on National Public Radio yesterday. An unexpected local reference popped up in "Mumbai Attacks Offer New Lessons on Terrorism," whose text version is accompanied by the photo seen here. Among the experts consulted for the piece is Miami Police Chief John Timoney, who says the assaults in Mumbai w
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 set in the unlikely locale of Mumbai, India. It also rewards the taste and foresight of Britta Erickson of the Denver Film Festival. Erickson is largely credited with selecting Slumdog Millionaire to s
Aaron ThackerayThis weekend, there was metal thrashing and apple bobbing at the Denver Creative Co-Op; Bombay chugging at DU; and a grand opening at Casselman's. You can see photos of all of them at westword.com/slideshow.
And if you're more of the strongly worded type, jump to the Backbeat blog for dispatches from weekend gigs by Gregory Alan Isakov, the Bottesini Project, Damon and Naomi, and Danielle Ate the Sandwich.
