Exploring Denver’s shops and restaurants, neighborhoods and people (including myself)
Pressure Cooker
Directed by Jennifer Grausman and Mark Becker
Starz Denver Film Festival
I went to see Pressure Cooker on the advice of Denveater, who described it as Rocky with toques. It was the third movie I saw at the Starz Denver Film Festival.
That seems like a pretty accurate description to me, though I haven’t seen Rocky since [...]
An Evening with Carolee Schneemann
Stan Brakhage Vision Award
Starz Denver Film Festival
Tender moviegoers should probably start their acquaintance with Schneemann at Americana I Ching Apple Pie. It’s a hilarious deconstruction of baking an apple pie that involves hammers, two-headed axes, car scrapers to mix dough, audience participation, and deep questions, such as “Should I just throw [...]
Lord God Bird
Starz Denver Film Festival
Directed by George Butler
Hell, it wasn’t just grown men crying at the thought of seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. I cried too, for all the times that some piece of land where I used to wander had been developed, for the fact that I’ll never see a flock of passenger [...]
Count Basie: Then as Now, Count’s the King
Starz Denver Film Festival
Directed by Gary Keys
I like to see documentaries at the Starz Denver Film Festival because they don’t show at nearby theaters. We truly are doubly blessed in the Denver-Boulder area: we have the film festival, and when that’s over, we can go to Video Station, [...]