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Grow where you’re planted
Prolific playwright Steven Dietz has many connections with Colorado. The most obvious is that he was born and raised in southwest Denver, attended John...
Page turner
John Ford is cinema. Born in Portland, Maine, in 1894 — just as motion picture cameras were first being put to good use —...
An era on screen
A crime drama about rival street gangs, a romance between two high schoolers, a history of shadow politics and a young man who feels...
The Disney ouroboros
It all started in Kansas City with a young dreamer named Walt Disney. Alice’s Wonderland wasn’t his first creation, but it was significant. The...
Lab results
Sarah Adina Smith is the first to admit that a career as a filmmaker wasn’t the most obvious path for her life.
“It took me...
History starts here
When Martin Scorsese sat down with friend and classmate Mardik Martin to pen Season of the Witch — later rechristened Mean Streets — he...
Stuck in the middle with you
Professor Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) loves history. Not just any old history but antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Sumerians — you name ’em, Paul knows all...
Under the radar
Fire up the projector and dim the lights — the 46th Denver Film Festival kicks off this weekend. This year’s slate opens with a...
Can’t help falling in love
It’s the early 1960s, and Priscilla Ann Beaulieu is just 14 years old. She doesn’t have any friends or hobbies, just the day-in, day-out...
Original sin
Every April, tiny flowers spread like confetti across the blackjack hills of Oklahoma. This is Osage Territory — land carved out and granted to...
Best of the fest
It’s the most common question you get as a film critic: “What’s good?” Variants include: “What do you like?” “What excites you?” “What should...
Double trouble
Lee Roy Kunz has his father to thank for his latest film, Deliver Us.
The pair were drinking at Cannonball Creek Brewing Company in Golden,...
