I first watched the French film “Delicatessen” on a shag rug in my family’s living room in 1992. I was 16 years old and virtually in my cultural infancy. While many peers were bored with subtitles and abstract plots, I had a hunger to understand what it was about these films that tickled [...]

As I’m usually reminded whenever I watch foregin films, our sensitivities and expectations as Americans are not universal. We were all taught that any good story has a conflict, a climax, a resolution… and so on. Based on this, most Hollywood films are packed heavy with tensions and “situations”. Tampopo (Japanese) was a pleasant departure from [...]

The November movies are great for date night.  Food is a sensuous and seductive subject.  The Foothills setting is intimate and fun.  And the movies we’re showing will make you feel like a genius.  They are staples of any study of cinema theory and practice.  These movies will feed your brain!  (Even the disgusting ones.)

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Horror films are not everybody’s bag, but there is definitely a market out there, just as there is definitely a market for anything under the sun. In my opinion, most horror films fall into one of two categories: useless (abysmal acting, cheapo production values, ludicrously unbelievable, baaad) and “good fun.” In the latter, one concedes [...]

Kleenex is advised. Mainly for the emotion you will feel at the astonishing selflessness and unquestioning devotion on the part of thousands of volunteers to ensuring the safety, health, and happiness of tens of thousands of animals stranded and marooned by Hurricane Katrina. Tom McPhee’s multiple-award-winning documentary film chronicles the heroic efforts to retrieve beloved [...]

Tim Treadwell spent 13 summers in the Alaska wilderness, most of the time by himself, living among grizzly bears. It is giving nothing away to say that he was, along with a girlfriend, ultimately mauled and devoured by a member of the species he had committed himself to protecting, a sector of the animal kingdom [...]