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 […]
Idiots and Angels (Bill Plympton) Bill Plympton is probably best known for his political cartoons, which have been featured in many various newspapers. “Idiots and Angels” is a departure from the bluntness and pinpoint subjects of his newsworthy drawings. Instead, Plympton tackles much broader and less-definable human conditions, such as happiness, evil, self-content, and selfishness. […]
Last Chance Harvey (Directed and Written by Joel Hopkins)starz denver film festival – closing night – sat, nov 22 Harvey Shine (Dustin Hoffman) is a rejected man. His job is fragile when he leaves for London to attend his daughter’s wedding. And when he arrives, Harvey finds that his family has distanced themselves from him […]
August Rush (Kirsten Sheridan) closing NIGHT PARTY – Starz Denver Film Festival 2007 The Starz Denver Film Festival’s next big party will go down this Saturday, November 17 at Ellie Caulkins with the Closing Night feature film, “August Rush.” Directed by Kirsten Sheridan, the film is expected to be both poignant and inspiring, especially for […]
Starz DENVER Film Festival 2007 Preview & Picks Art imitating life. It’s a saying that has proven to be true time and time again, and you’ll see it in all the faceted reflections of our lives, past and present when you view the extensive line of up 178 films, which will make it to screens […]
JUNO (Jason Reitman) – BIG NIGHT PARTY – Starz Denver Film Festival 2007 After creating a new formula for laughing at the darker sides of life in “Thank You For Smoking,” director Jason Reitman is back and jumping high and wide over the sophomore slump with what is expected to be a comedic must-see, “Juno.”
LOOKING FOR SUNDAY (Mark Piznarski) The nervous energy was contagious as I sat in the theatre at the Starz Denver Film Festival the evening of the world premiere of Looking for Sunday, a movie produced in Denver. It seemed that everyone surrounding me had some connection with the film, not to mention the presence of […]
STARZ DENVER FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT – BREAKING AND ENTERING (Anthony Minghella) It’s the opening night of the 29th Annual Starz Denver Film Festival at the Denver Center for Performing Arts’ stunning Ellie Caulkins Opera House. I suddenly feel quite short as I’ve forgotten my high heels and large women in even larger dresses barrel […]
