Tag: Colorado Film
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In one remarkable documentary, Creede is the center of the U.S.A.
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 26 Could the example of a tiny Colorado mountain town lead America out of its ongoing ideological divide? As I was watching the remarkable new documentary “Creede U.S.A.” at this year’s Denver Film Festival, I wondered how Thornton Wilder might have opened “Our Town” if he’d set his…
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Spanish celebration of late-life love captures Denver Film Festival audiences’ hearts – and votes
‘Cover-Up,’ about investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, named best documentary With a particularly strong field of new narrative films to consider, Denver Film Festival audiences pulled off a bit of an upset in choosing “Calle Malaga” as the best of the 2025 fest. The title of the Spanish-language film, which counts Morocco, France, Spain, Germany and…
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David Ansen on the death of film criticism
ALSO: ALL BUT ONE SCREENING FOR TODAY’S FINAL DAY IS SOLD OUT DISPATCH FROM THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL • DAY 10 People used to say, “Everyone is a critic!” as a, well – criticism. The irony is, in 2025, everyone really is a critic. Anyone with an opinion and a blog or a TikTok account with followers…
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Two minute warning: It’s John Elway’s night at the Denver Film Festival
ALSO: COLORADO FILMMAKERS HAVE THEIR SCREEN MOMENTS DISPATCH FROM THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL • DAY 9 Dec. 11, 1983. The day The Duke of Denver was born. John Elway had been benched for much of his sporadic rookie season. But on this day, he engineered his first fourth-quarter comeback against the team he had refused to…
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Ben Foster crowned heavyweight outlaw champion of Denver
DISPATCH FROM THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL • DAY 8 Ben Foster says the reports are true: Boxing champion Christy Martin, perhaps the most badass woman on the planet, avoided the actor who played her husband throughout the filming of the new movie about her life, “Christy.” Which speaks both to the extensiveness of the abuse she…
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Sisters spread their wings through the joy of art in the ashes of Guatemalan tragedy
DISPATCH FROM THE DENVER FILM FESTIVAL • DAY 6 There were only three words to describe the atmosphere at MCA Denver’s Holiday Theatre on Monday afternoon: Joy. Ebullience. Gratitude. Astonishing, given the road young sisters Lupe and Lesli Perez have taken from the rugged outskirts of Guatemala City to the Denver Film Festival, which just welcomed…
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Film: Could tiny Creede lead America out of its divide?
Denver Film Festival documentary is a powerful example of what happens when small-town Americans engage with those who think differently There’s a reason Kahane Corn Cooperman’s new documentary is called “Creede U.S.A.,” and not “Creede, Colorado.” It is the American story everyone everywhere is desperate for. This tiny, picturesque little Brigadoon nestled into the San…
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Jim Havey, lovingly known as Colorado’s Ken Burns
Jim Havey, who came to be known as the Ken Burns of Colorado with his many films documenting the history of the Rocky Mountain West, died Jan. 19. He was 74. His films – notably “Colfax Avenue,” “Broomfield,” “Centennial Statehouse,” “The Great Divide” and “The Five States of Colorado” – have educated Coloradans for decades and have…