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Thursday, February 14,2013

BIFF’s new musical bent

Music docs, independent films abound at festival

By David Accomazzo
The festival, this year, brings 47 documentaries and feature films plus shorts to town, and the only two full-time employees acknowledge that it’s the enthusiasm and dedication of hundreds of volunteers that makes the festival run.
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Thursday, February 7,2013

Holy Frenchman, Batman

‘Holy Motors’ is the weirdest film you will ever see and love

By David Accomazzo
It is a bizarre and bewildering journey through the twisted imagination of its director/screenwriter. And it’s fun as hell, one of the most mesmerizing and unusual films I’ve ever seen.
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Thursday, January 31,2013

Wonder Woman versus chauvinism

Documentary explores character’s changing role in feminist movements of the 20th century and beyond

By David Accomazzo
In many ways, the comic book character Wonder Woman is very much a product of the time in which she was conceived — World War II America. Her trademark costume — star-spangled blue-and-white panties, American flag-red corset with gold adornments, the yellow headband with the red star — is rife with the patriotic fervor that bled into so many comic books at the time.
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Thursday, January 24,2013

So long, celluloid

Film at the IFS will not go gently into that good night

By David Accomazzo
Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, 35 mm film projectors, for it tolls for thee. And Hollywood is manning the clapper.
Thursday, January 17,2013

Cultural chasms and 90 miles of ocean

Project shows Cuban and American music have lots in common

By David Accomazzo
In 2010, three U.S.-based jazz musicians, trumpeter Christian Scott, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, and tenor saxaphonist David Sánchez, traveled to Cuba to meet with local musicians and make an album. What they found was something both familiar and foreign.
Thursday, December 27,2012

Person of the Year runner-up: Brian Vicente, legal marijuana

By David Accomazzo
Vicente has been leading the charge against marijuana prohibition for eight years.
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Thursday, December 20,2012

Songs of Solomon

CU filmmaker works in the medium of visual music

By David Accomazzo
For whatever reason, avant-garde art films have never gained the pop-culture cachet achieved by other realms of the art world.
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Thursday, December 13,2012

The black market meets the stock market

‘Killing Them Softly’ shorts a promising premise

By David Accomazzo
Killing Them Softly is an ambitious mashup of black market and stock market politics, wrapped in the guise of a straight-up crime movie. If that sounds like it’d be hard to pull off, it is.
Thursday, December 13,2012

At the altar of Divine Fits

Britt Daniel explains why he ditched security for excitement, at least for now

By David Accomazzo
What do you do when you finally make it? Most artists are perpetually scraping by and innovating just to get by, and when you finally break through that barrier and find yourself no longer a struggling artist but a successful one, where do you go from there?
Thursday, December 6,2012

Gifts for gamers

Find the perfect fit for the button-masher in your life

By David Accomazzo
If you are the type that still actually reads for fun, then you might need some help finding a video game for the gamer on your list. Here is a brief guide to help you out.
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