End of Our Fall 2009 Series

This week is the end of our fall series. The Starz Denver Film Festival is here this weekend, so check out these original films. Please come back to join us in the Spring for a whole new set of great films!

SDFF in Boulder! Nov 13-15

Friday, November 13th

7:00 PM FILM IST. A GIRL & A GUN

A battle of the sexes told with myth and magic: Gustav Deutsch's erotically charged epic,crafted from extraordinary archive footage. (93 min)

9:30 PM LEAVES OF GRASS

"One Edward Norton performance is often enough reason to see a movie, so it comes as no surprise that the prospect of two--he plays twins--is very much the main attraction, and reward" of this film says Variety. (105 min)

Saturday, November 14th

7:00 PM BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS

Werner Herzog and Nicholas Cage revisit Abel Ferrara's 1992 film, that "in its own way every bit as sincerely, doggedly demented as its ostensible source." (121 min)

9:30 PM ECCENTRICITIES OF A BLONDE HAIR GIRL

"De Oliveira celebrates his hndredth birhday with a blithe shaggy dog story that shows his storytelling at its simplest and most pleasurable." -Screen Daily (64 min)

Sunday, November 15th

7:00 PM BEST WORST MOVIE

"Strangely moving...insightful...consistently funny and smart about celebrity, vanity and bad movies -and what makes them lovable." -Variety (93 min)

9:30 PM TROLL 2

"Some filmes are so bad they're great. TROLL 2 is so bad that it's actally a life chaanging experience." -Horrorwwatch.com (95 min)

Daily Camera Letter to the Editor 11/05/09

When the Daily Camera contacted me for my opinion on the new art house theater I was away from my desk promoting my series on the radio and missed my chance to remind people about the International Film Series. The resulting article states that “Boulder has not had an art house presence since Landmark Theaters closed its Crossroads Cinema on Pearl Street in 2007.” Yikes! The IFS brings over a hundred international and independent films to Boulder every year, along with many special events. We are sometimes overlooked due to our location on campus, but we do our best to reward cinephiles with affordable and eclectic programming. We’ll even pay for your parking if you buy a punch card. People who patronize us have had a chance to see Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God), Terry Jones (Life of Brian), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), and many other filmmakers in-person (often for free). We’ve also been doing this since 1941; that’s not just a good art house presence, that's a singular track-record with bragging rights as Boulder's first art-house series - and still kicking.

Back to the new Dairy Center theater: It can only help to have another place showing quality foreign and independent films in the community. These films desperately need word-of-mouth and buzz which my calendar program can’t sustain since we only show films for a day (or sometimes two). On our Fall program alone we brought over 40 premieres to the Boulder area and only two non-premieres that had already shown at CineMark. Guess which film has done the best business so far? The one that had already shown at CineMark. It just goes to show that awareness is key, and the more the merrier. So welcome aboard!

Pablo Kjolseth

IFS Director