The wonderful thing about film festivals like the Starz Denver Film Festival is (November 3 – 14, 2010), when the lights go down and we have turned off our cell phones, what appears on the screen is free from “feel good movie of the year” anecdotes, a 3D horror-meets-jaws-meets-spring-break, talking dogs, a remake of 80s television […]
As technology evolves and continues to help us to handle life in a more convenient manner, making every-day tasks like carrying maps in a car seem silly when we have a GPS system, or carry around cash when we have a debit card, lots of 0s and 1s in our name are being stored. “Erasing […]
That’s the tagline for SXSW. And it couldn’t be more true. In 2007, which was my sixth time covering SXSW, I finally went for the gold, or should I say, the Platinum. This meant that I was part of Interactive discussions, announcements, panels and parties, along with Film and Music. Interactive was an eye-opener for […]
There was a time when I would tell friends I was covering South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, TX, and I’d get a blank stare. Now I get a glare of envy. SXSW has been evolving and growing by leaps and bounds for a number of years now, to the point of becoming a household […]
Leaves of Grass (Tim Blake Nelson) – Starz Denver Film Festival and SXSW 2010 Edward Norton has been one of my favorite actors for some time, but I was a bit dismayed when he took the role of Bruce Banner in “The Incredible Hulk” last year (as I was when I learned he was dating […]
Starz Denver Film Festival 2009 Picks – November 12 – 22 The 32nd Annual Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF) kicked off last night to a sellout crowd at Ellie Caulkins. Having arrived right at 7:30pm, I found one of the last seats left in the nose bleed section to see the highly provocative film, “Precious: […]
The Young Victoria (Jean-Marc Vallée) – Starz Denver Film Festival Closing Night Film “Queen Victoria has never been remembered for her youth, but for her seemingly never ending old age: her years of mourning, her black dress, her dour expression, her iconic stature. One might wonder, ‘Was she ever a girl?’” – “Becoming Victoria” by […]
Solitary Man (Brian Koppelman, David Levien) – Starz Denver Film Festival The story of a man’s mid-life crises is nothing new. That fight against the movement of time, the effort to relive the days when, as Ben puts it, “I was a lion.” Ben, (Michael Douglas), is a man in his 50s who has the […]
Copyright Criminals – Tuesday, October 27 – Starz FilmCenter – Denver – 7pm, FREE by emailing RSVP@DenverFilm.org Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod direct a new film, “Copyright Criminals,” which is not the first to examine the trials and tribulations related to music sampling, and it won’t be the last. The trailer for the film sets […]
Skills Like This – Opening at the Starz FilmCenter – Friday, April 17 thru April 23 Many are happy to see that “Skills Like This” is returning to Denver where it began, not only in inception but in filming, to open it’s official run at the Starz FilmCenter this Friday. An none too soon. “I’ve […]
