Pence, along with his fellow co-founders, created a world-class film festival that helped put Telluride on the map. He has died at age 82.
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Posted inCulture
A movie about politics, lies, corruption and greed still resonates 80 years later
Frank Capra’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” is an election-season reminder that democracy matters
Posted inCartoons
“What’d I Miss?”: What would it take to make you stop following the leader?
Ossie’s dad drops the wisdom of asking yourself what would make you stop following any leader. And what it means if the answer is “nothing.”
Posted inBook Excerpts, SunLit
SunLit Excerpt: “Like Water” traces Bruce Lee’s cultural and historical impact
Introduction In the climactic scene of Bruce Lee’s final film, the 1973 martial arts movie Enter the Dragon, Lee pursues the archvillain Han with the hope of finishing their fight in a hall of mirrors. The two stalk each other through the maze of reflections and refractions, the screen filled with one Lee, two, a […]
Posted inOpinion
What’d I Miss?: Ossie’s dad can recall a time being a fan meant actually liking things
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | Next >
Posted inSunLit, SunLit Interviews
SunLit Interview: To publish “The Reincarnationist Papers,” Eric Maikranz took an unusual route
D. Eric Maikranz has had a multitude of lives in this lifetime. He worked as an industrial welder before attending the University of Colorado to study Russian literature, was a foreign correspondent in Rome, translated for relief doctors in Nicaragua during a cholera epidemic, and was once forcibly expelled from Laos. He has worked as […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Littwin: Wouldn’t a comet hurtling toward Earth move people to act? Hmmm, maybe.
Now that “Don’t Look Up” is officially a best-picture Oscar nominee, I have a confession to make. I didn’t much like the movie. I thought it was too scattershot, not quite sharp or funny enough and, worst of all, seemed to get the premise all wrong. But it’s not as simple as that, of course. […]
Posted inArts, Culture, Opinion, Opinion Columns
Movshovitz: “The Day the Earth Stood Still” still speaks to us, if we’re willing to listen
“Gort, KLAATU BARRATA NICTO” A loose translation of this famous line spoken near the end of the brilliant 1951 movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (forget the splashy, nowhere 2008 version with Keanu Reeves) would go something like “Gort, Klaatu says don’t incinerate the Earth — yet.” To go backwards in the story, Gort […]
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Silverman: A fond farewell to Charles Grodin, forever the Heartbreak Kid
Manhattan-based accountant Allen Weisselberg must be a wreck. Weisselberg and his family’s welfare are threatened. As bookkeeper for Fred Trump and then his wayward son, Weisselberg knows Trump’s financial shenanigans. Law enforcement encourages accountants to turn on crooked clients. Mobsters hate that. In the entertaining movie, “Midnight Run” (1990), accountant Jonathan “the Duke” Mardukas turned […]
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Movshovitz: The coronavirus pandemic will inspire filmmakers, but we’ll have to wait a while to see
Movies are not a popular art for nuthin’. They may not appear to take on serious aspects of our lives at the moment they hit the screens, but what’s going on in the world registers in all sorts of ways, both obvious and opaque. Great and traumatic events — hot world wars, cold wars, financial […]