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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement Must End Oct 20
35mm presentation - Jackie Chan's 100th movie: Starring Jackie Chan and co-directed by the star and Zhang Li, 1911 tells the story of the founding of the Republic of China when Sun Yat-sens forces overthrew the Ming Dynasty
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7pm Wednesday, July 11th at the Museum of Nature & Science
with post-film discussion by David Grinspoon, PhD, curator of astrobiology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
HD Digital presentation - Stanley Kubrick's quiet masterpiece probes the mysteries of space and human destiny. Whil
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MUST END Thursday, June 9th
35mm Presentation - “The year is 1844. A young lord rapes and kills with impunity by virtue of his political connections. Though the era of the samurai is fading, an honest government official covertly enlists thirteen swordsmen to assassinate this sadistic
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Special Cinema Q presentation screens November 16th - 24th
35mm presentation - From the director of Run, Lola, Run and The International comes a sexy romantic drama with a nod to classic Hollywood's screwball comedies. Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, li
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Special Presentation Saturday, October 22nd at 2pm & 4:45pm
Director Doug Dearth In-Person!
Presented in Partnership with The Chanda Plan Foundation who will benefit from a portion of the ticket sales
Digital presentation - At forty years old, Devin Dearth is a successful businessma
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Exclusive Engagement must end Aug 11 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - From director Chris Weitz (About a Boy) comes the heartfelt drama A Better Life. Carlos (Demián Bichir) is a gardener living in East L.A. who performs landscaping work for wealthy cl
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Special Guests: Scars on 45
Music starts at 6:45 - Movie starts at Dusk
For the ultimate Film on the Rocks experience, choose the Trading Post Pre-Party option
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Monday, May 9th at 7pm - Presented by Curious Theatre
Digital presentation - In this dark, contemplative tale, an advanced prototype robot child named David (Haley Joel Osment) is programmed to show unconditional love. When his human family, unprepared for the consequences, abandons h
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Plays Wednesday, Nov 16th at 4:30pm and Thursday, Nov 17th at 7pm as part of our Growing Payne series!
Digital presentation - When insurance actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires and his wife dies, he looks for life's meaning on a road trip to his daughter's (Hope Davis) up
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Screens Saturday, July 16th at 11:45am as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Digital presentation - In 1995, Andy Blubaugh—then a curious and lonely fifteen-year-old—began a sexual relationship with Peter, a successful, deeply closeted man who was nearly twice his age. In 2010, Andy n
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Monday, July 11th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
This a Special FREE Advance Screening, download your free pass HERE and bring either a printout or show it to us from your phone! Admittance will be on a first come- first served basis
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Wednesday, July 20th at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
with post-film discussion by Paula Cushing, PhD, curator of invertebrate zoology, DMNS
HD Digital presentation - Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic stars Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, a tough-as-nails warrant officer who s
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Wednesday, July 20th at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
with post-film discussion by Paula Cushing, PhD, curator of invertebrate zoology, DMNS
HD Digital presentation - Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic stars Sigourney Weaver as Ripley, a tough-as-nails warrant officer who s
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Screens Saturday, July 16th at 7pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Digital presentation - A sharp and funny exploration of the complex world of adult relationships, All About Love takes a rare look at the lives of queer women and their specific challenges when it comes to creati
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mUST END Thursday, January 20th!
35mm presentation - Inspired by the most notorious missing person’s case in New York history, All Good Things is a love story and murder mystery set against the backdrop of a New York real estate dynasty in the 1980s. Produced and directed by Andrew Ja
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Friday, March 4 at 8pm
In Partnership with the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Colorado
Digital presentation - Peace Corps, VISTA, Community Action, Head Start, Legal Services for the Poor, Youth Corps, Job Corps, and more. Sargent Shriver invented a string of social initiatives t
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Digital presentation - The greatest comic of his generation. Took names. Kicked ass. Changed the game.
Three years in the making, AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY brings the tale of one of modern culture’s most iconic heroes to the big screen. Much more than a comedian, Bill Hicks was and stil
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Denver FilmCenter exclusive MUST END September 29th
Digital presentation - AMIGO, the 17th feature film from Academy Award-nominated writer-director John Sayles, stars legendary Filipino actor Joel Torre as Rafael, a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-Am
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One Night Only! Two Shows! Saturday, December 10th at 7pm and 9:30pm
Animator Don Hertzfeldt In-Person for a post film interview and discussion!
35mm presentation - Cult animator and Academy Award nominee Don Hertzfeldt (Rejected, Billy's Balloon, the Meaning of Life) is hitting the
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Digital presentation - AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE provides an intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray. Director Steven Soderbergh, who collaborated with Gray on Gray’s Anatomy (1996), has si
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The YFW Animation Workshop will teach the basics of animation, giving students the opportunity to create their own characters under the instruction of a professional animator. The hands-on course will focus on fundamentals such as character design and development as well as narrative story-te
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35mm presentation - In ANOTHER EARTH, Rhoda Williams (Marling), a bright young woman accepted into MIT's astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. A brilliant composer, John Burroughs (Mapother), has just reached the pinnacle of his profession and is about to have a second child.
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MUST END Thursday, January 5th!
35mm presentation - Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s prestigious Screenwriting Award, ANOTHER HAPPY DAY is the feature film debut of writer and director Sam Levinson. The film is a powerful, darkly comic story of a woman struggling to find her pla
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Saturday September 10, 2011, 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Post-screening discussion to follow. Tickets $12 public/$10 DFS members.
Continuing education credit available for AIA members. Post screening discussion and architectural tour of the Lowenstein CulturePlex with Architect Chris Win
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Exclusive Denver Engagement MUST END Sept 22 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, ATTACK THE BLOCK follows a gang of tough inner-city kids who try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, t
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Screens Friday, July 15th at 9:30pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Digital presentation - August tells the story of two former lovers, Troy and Jonathan, who reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending several years in Spain, Troy returns to Los Angeles and
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B-Side to A FISH CALLED WANDA at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, June 22 - Sun, June 26 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax at 9:30pm
35mm Presentation - After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson (Steve Martin) runs off on a hilarious misad
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Digital presentation - “Average guy” Jeb Berrier charismatically narrates this documentary by Suzan Beraza about the role of plastics in our lives—and the havoc they’ve wreaked. As Berrier makes a pledge to stop using plastic bags at home, he starts to wonder what happens when we throw someth
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MUST END March 24 at the new Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - Based on Mordecai Richler's prize-winning comic novel—his last and, arguably, best—Barney's Version, is the warm, wise, and witty story of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a seemingly ordinary man who liv
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Thursday September 15, 2011, 7 pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
With CU Architecture Professor Taisto Makela in person. Reception to follow at Linger restaurant (free appetizers and cash bar). Tickets $25 public/$20 DFS members.
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A Double Feature (2 films for 1 price) of the critically acclaimed great directorial work of actor Ben Affleck. Beginning with his filmmaking debut Gone Baby Gone, based on the novel by Dennis Lehane, starring his younger brother Casey Affleck and followed at 9:40pm with The Town, star
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Exclusive Engagement Screens MUST END Aug 25
35mm Presentation - Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. Having released five go
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Digital presentation - Every day, millions tune in to Sesame Street to see one of the world’s most adored and recognizable characters—a furry red monster named Elmo. Yet, with all of Elmo’s fame, the man behind the icon is able to walk down the street without being recognized.
Meet Kevin Cl
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Denver FilmCenter exclusive MUST END September 29th
35mm Presentation - In filmmaker Evan Glodell's feature debut Bellflower, best friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all of their free time building Mad Max-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars in preparation for a global apocalyp
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Rajesh is a private investigator in Kolkata who’s passionate about his family, his job—and fancy footwork. This one-of-a-kind documentary follows the chubby detective as he tries to crack murder, counterfeiting, and adultery cases as well as win a national TV dance contest.
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Special Presentation! Wednesday, June 15th at 7pm & 9pm
Digital presentation - Be the first to see the new Neil Patrick Harris comedy before its summer release!
A cast to die for, an unpredictable plot full of twists, and a nothing-held-back sense of silly, yet intelligent sense of h
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Digital presentation - A recent Sundance world premiere, Bhutto tells the epic story of one of the most fascinating characters of our time — Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation. A favored daughter of the family often called the “Kennedys of Pakistan,” Benazir wa
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Digital presentation - In 2005, a disaster struck New Orleans. You know the rest. Or do you?
The media reported that what happened in New Orleans was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong. But its inability or unwillingness to report th
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Bill Cunningham is obsessively interested in only one thing—the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. “We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion tren
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Saturday October 1, 2011, 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Post-screening Q&A to follow with China-based architect Scott Findley, Design Partner with 10 Design. Continuing Education credit available for AIA members. Tickets $12 public/$10 DFS members.
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MUST END this Thursday, April 7th!
35mm presentation - Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel, 21 Grams, Amores Perros) directs and co-writes Biutiful, a love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal (Academy Award winner Javier Bardem), a confl
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Digital presentation - BLANK CITY tells the long-overdue tale of a disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history. In the late 1970's and mid 80's, when the city was still a wasteland of cheap rent and cheap drugs, thes
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Screens 7:00pm September 20 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Wine tasting from Caduceus Vineyards - the vineyard featured in the film
Hard rock fans know Maynard James Keenan as the frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer. But in this intriguing documentary, Christopher Pomerenke
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Screens at 7:30pm on Tues, June 28 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Part of the Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou? series
35mm presentation - In a jealous rage, Texas tavern owner Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya) hires unscr
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Screens at 7:30 & 10pm on Tues, Aug 23 as part of our DeMented.DeRanged. DeCeptive. DEPALMA series!
35mm presentation - B-movie soundman Jack Terri (John Travolta) has heard it all in his line of work -- until he accidentally records a murder. He follows the sound of a blown-out tire
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END September 22
Digital presentation - Considered by many to be the world’s greatest chess player, Bobby Fischer personified the link between genius and madness. His trajectory propelled him from child prodigy to world chess champion at age 29 and then into
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Screens at 7:30 & 10pm on Tues Aug 30 as part of our DeMented.DeRanged. DeCeptive. DEPALMA series!
35mm presentation - In a nasty double-whammy, struggling actor Jake Sculley (Craig Wasson) loses his girlfriend and then witnesses a brutal murder in a neighbor's apartment. When a young
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B-Side to TWILIGHT at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, July20 - Sun, July 24 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - Airheaded cheerleader Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is the "chosen one" of her generation -- earmarked to kill vampires infesting our streets and towns. Donald Sutherl
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Screens at 7:30 & 10pm on Tues, Aug 9 as part of our DeMented.DeRanged. DeCeptive. DEPALMA series!
35mm Presentation - Carrie (Sissy Spacek) may be ostracized, but the shy teen has the ability to move objects with her mind. So when the high school "in crowd" torments her with a sick j
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In a masterful and often hilarious performance, Kevin Spacey, directed by George Hickenlooper, dramatizes the vile shenanigans of convicted Bush-era lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose greed and lust for power knew no bounds—and whose scheming not only brought him low but imperiled the White House as well
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Exclusive Engagement Screens Through May 12 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - In Miguel Arteta’s new comedy Cedar Rapids, Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) was the guy people always thought would go places but then he just... didn't. He's been living in über-sleepy Brown V
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35mm presentation - Sam Davis (Michael Angarano) convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker (Lee Pace). But it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with the film
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35mm Presentation - Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) hungers for stardom but ends up in the slammer, where superstar Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is doing time for shooting her cheating husband, in this Best Picture winner based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name. When Velma's law
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35mm presentation - Alfonso Cuaron directs this Oscar-nominated film version of P.D. James's classic dystopian novel, a futuristic drama set in a world in which humans have lost the ability to reproduce and subsequently face certain extinction. Things change when a single woman mysteriously b
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HD Digital presentation - During his days as a notoriously contentious critic for the influential French film journal Cahiers du Cinema, François Truffaut proselytized for a “cinema of the first-person singular,” encouraging the creation of movies “even more personal than an autobiogra
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Digital presentation - 1840. Who could have imagined that this boy, an avid bible-reader who lives in a small hut in the woods, would become one day the captain of a whaling ship ? Nobody. Nevertheles, following a difficult childhood, Achab sets sail, becomes a great captain, and one day he
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Special Cine Club presentation Wednesday, July 20th at 7pm
Film followed by a wine and pastry reception presented by the Alliance Francaise
Digital presentation - Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with Film Socialisme, a magisterial essay on the decline of Euro
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Special Cine Club presentation Wednesday, August 17th at 7pm followed by a wine & pastry reception presented by the Alliance Francaise
35mm presentation - Tania is a former teacher from Russia, living illegally in Belgium with her 14-year-old son, Ivan. One day, they are stopped on th
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French Films followed by discussion and a wine and pastry reception!
Two of the giants of French cinema, Claude Chabrol and Gerard Depardieu, team up for the only time for the director's 50th and final feature film, a wry thriller about a police commissioner trying to balance professional in
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Special Cine Club presentation screens Wednesday, September 21st at 7pm followed by a wine & pastry reception presented by the Alliance Francaise
Digital presentation - A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda (Nicolas Cazale), a young man who lives in the south of France,
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Wednesday, March 16th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Followed by a dessert and wine reception presented by the Alliance Francaise
Digital presentation - In this sly comedy, six of the world's worst gangsters managed to heist $2 million, but only one got away. Now after four y
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Digital presentation - A year before the politically charged landscape of the 1960s erupted with the Stonewall Riots, Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking play The Boys in the Band premiered off-Broadway. Heralded as the first instance of gay theater, it became a resounding overnight smash: f
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Digital presentation - Beautiful Darling pays tribute to the short but influential life of an extraordinary person -- the actress Candy Darling, born James Slattery in a Long Island suburb in 1944. Drawn to the feminine from childhood, by the mid-Sixties James had become Candy, a gorge
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MUST END this Thursday, April 7th!
35mm presentation - CRACKS, the dazzling debut film from Jordan Scott (daughter of legendary director Ridley Scott), stars Eva Green as Miss G, a glamorous force in an idyllic British boarding school. The school's most elite clique, led by Di (Juno T
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Digital presentation - Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School tells the story of one student’s efforts to establish a gay-straight student alliance at a pluralistic Jewish high school in the Boston area and the transformative impact of her campaign for greater awareness, visibility, and
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35mm presentation - Winner of the Cadillac People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 ‘The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls’ tells the story of the world’s only comedic, singing, yodeling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique b
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Digital presentation - A complex, subversive woman, Violet (Mindy Cohn, a long way from The Facts of Life) acts as queen mother or "fruit fly" for her gay friends, offering gossip and support, but she wouldn't mind a little romance for herself. By way of comfort, co-worker Riley reminds her t
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Special Screening for DFS Members ONLY! Monday, August 29th at 7pm
Special New Member's Orientation before the show and Member's Month Reception following the film!
35mm presentation - On the fringes of Dublin two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate devoid of lif
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Monday, June 27th at 7pm - For Denver Film Society Members Only - FREE Admission!
Digital presentation - This evening we are very happy to present two amazing short films (each 39mins long) that showcase two different and fascinating spirits in the world of entertainment: writer/illus
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Monday, July 25th at 7pm - For Denver Film Society Members Only - FREE Admission!
Brand New 35mm presentation - THE LAW (previously released in the US as Where the Hot Wind Blows) stars Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Yves Montand, Melina Mercouri, and Pierre Brasseur. Lollob
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Digital presentation - Two-time Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton's directorial debut THE UNLOVED is a powerful and personal look at the strength and resilience of youth. Morton tells the story of eleven-year-old Lucy (newcomer Molly Windsor) seeking refuge as a ward of the state from he
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35mm presentation - Gorgeously filmed along the back roads of rural Mexico, Circo follows the Ponce family’s hardscrabble circus as it struggles to stay together despite mounting debt, dwindling audiences and a simmering family conflict. Tino, the ringmaster, is driven by his dream to
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Special Cinema Q advance presentation Thursday, August 11th at 7:30pm
35mm presentation - A special presentation of this amazing, moving and award-winning film!
A suspenseful tale of love and family upended by obsession and suspicion, is also a provocative coming-of-age story that c
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Plays Wednesday, Nov 16th at 9:15pm and Thursday, Nov 17th at 2:30pm as part of our Growing Payne series!
35m presentation - In this satirical look at a controversial issue, unfit mother of four Ruth Stoops (Laura Dern) discovers while in jail that she's pregnant again. The judge char
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MUST END March 24 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - After abandoning a promising academic career in forensic science, a self-styled Sherlock Holmes, Doug (Cris Lankenau), returns to Portland to live with his more responsible big sister Gail (Trieste Kelly Dunn). H
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Wednesday, March 23 at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Hosted by Robert Denerstein
Ever wonder how actors inspire other actors? We did, so we invited two accomplished Denver-based actors to join us for the March edition of the Colorado Cinema Salon, 7 p.m., March 23. Sheila Traister and
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Wednesday, May 25th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Step Lively. Sometimes, it's easy to forget the obvious: Movies are about movement. So what better medium to capture the outrageous, bold, or subtle rhythms of dance, whether we're talking ballet, tap or lavish, production numbers?
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Screens Wednesday, August 24th at 7pm
As summer draws to a close, we thought it would be an ideal time to take a look at the way action can dominate and invigorate movies. Cinema Salon curator and host Robert Denerstein will be joined by Tom Green of Denver's KWGN TV’s Channel 2 and Steve Ur
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Wednesday, June 29th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Stop the presses! The clickety-clack of typewriter keys, the fog of cigarette smoke, the ceaseless roar of the presses, and the cry of harried reporters, “Get me rewrite!” Those are but a few of the images from Hollywood’s long and
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Thursday, April 28th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Hosted by Robert Denerstein
This edition of the Colorado Cinema Salon precedes the Denver FilmCenter’s Holocaust Remembrance Day screening (Sunday, May 1) of Claude Lanzmann’s landmark 9 ½-hour documentary, SHOAH.
The Salon, curat
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Ever wondered what movies are closest to the heart of a master chef? Maybe you've also wondered what movies play an important role in the life of someone who's won an Oscar? We have, too. That's why the January Colorado Cinema Salon -- The Movies in My Life -- will focus on three movies that constit
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Thursday, July 28th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter
Digital presentation - With the final movie of the Harry Potter series now in theaters, it's time for a look back at a truly compelling literary and cinematic phenomenon. You may not know a Muggle from a muffin, but you surely know t
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Thursday, February 24th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - Experience a riveting and inspiring true-life adventure aboard the high-tech sloop MORNING LIGHT. Fifteen rookie sailors have one goal in mind -- to be part of her crew, racing in the most revered saili
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MUST END Friday April 21 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Special DocNight preview Thursday, April 14 at 7pm with director Michael Sládek In-Person! Michael will also appear at Friday's 7:15pm show as well.
Digital pr
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END July 7th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC's "Tonight Show"—and the severing of a 22-year relationship with the network—Conan O'Brien hit the road with a 32-city music-and-comedy show
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35mm presentation - Andreï Filipov was a prodigy—the celebrated conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, the greatest orchestra in Russia. Today, aged 50, he still works at the Bolshoi, but as a cleaner.
During the communist era, he was fired at the height of his fame for refusing to get rid of
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Special Presentation Sunday, June 10th at 4:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter
In Cooperation with VisionBox Denver
Digital presentation - In 1983, Deborah Peagler, a woman brutally abused by her boyfriend, was sentenced to 25 years-to-life for her connection to his murder. Twenty years l
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Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 4:30pm at the Denver Film Center//Colfax
In partnership with USTA Colorado
Digital presentation - Denver City Park & The Black Tennis Experience captures Denver's culture, spirit, and passion for tennis. The film showcases the words, deeds, and aspirations
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One of the greatest Czech films. A young man works at a small town train station in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. He reaches sexual and political ecstasy within moments of each other. The film is funny, and also devastating.
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From Stephen Holden in the New York Times: Maybe you have to have been brought up in a formerly Communist country to recognize and fully appreciate what might be called capitalist propaganda. What does it mean? It entails promoting a starry-eyed shop-till-you-drop ethos in a population accustomed t
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An absurdist take on a celebration in a small town in Czechoslovakia. Early Forman movies are wild, often hilarious, sometimes dumbfounding --and never boring. Among other things, it's about politics, sex, small town life, bureaucracy and self-importance.
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Special Presentation - Monday, July 18th at 7pm
Digital presentation - DANNY GREENE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE IRISHMAN is a documentary on the life and death of Cleveland’s legendary gangster and his battle with the Italian mob. Clint O’Connor of The Plain Dealer wrote: “Feeding Ameri
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Deaf Jam speaks volumes, often without a sound. Judy Lieff’s uplifting documentary follows the evolution of American Sign Language (ASL) and one young deaf woman’s journey from childhood frustration with the hearing world to triumph as a signed-word artist in poetry slam competitions.
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Plays Tuesday, April 12th at 7:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
HD Digital presentation - To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise in Martin Scorsese's multiple Oscar-wi
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Thursday September 22, 2011, 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
With architectural historian and author Alan Hess in person.
Reception to follow at Mod Livin’.
Sponsored by Modern in Denver Magazine. Tickets $25 public/$20 DFS members.
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Sunday, June 5th at 5pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Hosted by Colorado Public Radio's Howie Movshovitz.
Include a special showing of one the Claude Chabrol tribute films from the upcoming J'Adore: Focus On French - Language Cinema: MERCI POUR LA CHOCOLATE
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A special film and lecture program Monday, February 7 at 7pm
Presented by the Denver Film Society and Alliance Francaise
Why do certain French film “classics” endure? Why such success with audiences throughout the world? Join author, critic, and film specialist Carol Altman in her interacti
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In December, Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi wrote a column in which he proclaimed television "the place to explore the American cultural and political experience." Harsanyi, of course, isn't the first writer to suggest that movies have lost much of their cultural primacy, but it's an observat
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Director Harry Shearer In-Person!
Digital presentation - In 2005, a disaster struck New Orleans. You know the rest. Or do you?
The media reported that what happened in New Orleans was a natural disaster primarily affecting poor black people. On both counts, the media was wrong. But i
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Director Cameron Yates IN-PERSON for post film Q&A and reception
Digital presentation - Until an FBI bust upended her life, Jeanette Maier was a successful New Orleans madam. Her discreet clientele included a number of powerful, high-ranking politicians. The ensuing very public trial
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Director Michael Sládek In-Person!
Digital presentation - Con Artist is a stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America's craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980’s New York scene, millionaire “business artist” Mark K
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Special DocNight presentation Thursday, July 21st at 7pm
Director Roko Belic In-Person for a post film Q&A and reception!
Digital presentation - HAPPY combines cutting-edge science from the new field of “positive psychology” with real-life stories of people from around the world whos
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Special DocNight presentation Thursday, October 13th at 7pm
Director Peter Sillen In-Person for a post film Q&A and reception!
Digital presentation - I Am Secretly An Important Man is a feature length documentary film portrait of Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein), one of Seat
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Special DocNight presentation Sunday, July 24th at 7pm
Director Frederick Marx In-Person for a post film Q&A and reception!
Digital presentation - The Zanskar region of Tibet is geographically remote, caught in a cycle of poverty and under siege from the Chinese who surround them and
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Special DocNight presentation screens Wednesday, September 7th at 7pm
Director M.A. Littler & Producer Alexander Hebert In-Person for a post film Q&A and reception!
Digital presentation - The Kingdom of Survival explores modern skepticism in America, challenges the status quo and unc
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Director J. Clay Tweel IN - PERSON for a post film Q&A and reception
Digital presentation - In Make Believe, director J. Clay Tweel follows six adolescent outsiders who all share an extraordinary passion: the art of magic. Armed with great skill and a dazzling array of illusions, thes
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Special DocNight preview Thursday, August 25th at 7pm with Director Steve James IN-PERSON for a Q&A and post-film reception!
Exclusive Denver FilmCenter engagement continues August 26th - September 1st
Digital presen
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7pm Thurs Feb 17 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Vadim Jendreyko In-Person!
First her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps, then young Svetlana herself experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev. She is good and gets work as a t
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MUST END Thursday, June 23rd!
35m presentation - The Double Hour is at once a stark romance, a touching psychological thriller, and a story about possibilities. Sonia (Ksenia Rappoport) and Guido (Filippo Timi) might be the two loneliest people in the Italian city of Turin. A
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Screens at 7:30 & 10pm on Tues, Aug 16 as part of our DeMented.DeRanged. DeCeptive. DEPALMA series!
35mm presentation - Brian De Palma directs this 1980 murder mystery. When a middle-aged wife and mother (Angie Dickinson) begins to doubt her own attractiveness, she turns to her therap
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Must End Thursday, December 15th at the Denver FilmCenter
35mm presentation - Breakout Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson, the Pusher trilogy) throttles into the fast lane with the precision-crafted action caper Drive, winner of the Best Director award at the Cannes Film F
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Thursday September 29, 2011, 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Post-screening Q&A with Director Jason Cohn and reception to follow at Encore restaurant (free appetizers and cash bar). Tickets $25 public/$20 DFS members.
Sponsored by ModDenHomes.com. In partnership with Women In Design
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One Night Only! Thursday, March 22nd at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Followed by a delicious tasting of fine foods!
Digital presentation - For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare
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Plays Wednesday, Nov 16th at 7pm and Thursday, Nov 17th at 4:45pm as part of our Growing Payne series!
35mm presentation - Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) appears to have the election for student council president sewn up until one of her teachers, Mr. McAllister (Matthew Broderick),
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Must End Thursday, December 15th at the Denver FilmCenter
35mm presentation - The sprawling slum that towers over Rio de Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, and as the head of Rio’s BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion), Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura) has see
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Digital presentation - One of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time, ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE exposes for the first time the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge who were behind Cambodia’s genocide. More than simply an inquiry into Cambodia’s experie
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Special Limited Return Engagement January 24 - 26. Completely UNCUT. Includes the "missing reel" not featured in the film's original release!
35mm Presentatiom - Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a small-time drug dealer, and his sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta), a nightclub stripper, are recen
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Special Valentine's Day Screening 8pm Monday, February 14th only at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax!
35mm presentation - Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation
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Limited Engagement Monday, January 17 - Thursday, January 20 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax to whet your whistle for EVANGELION 2.0 opening January 21st!
Digital presentation - After the second impact, all
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Digital presentation - The landmark anime Evangelion evolves, reaching new heights of intensity in the new feature film, EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE. In an explosive new story full of brutal action and primal emotion, a group of young pilots maneuver their towering, cyborg Eva Units
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MUST END this Thursday, April 7th!
35mm Presentation - A Spanish film crew arrives in Bolivia to make a film about Columbus in the New World. Idealistic director Sebastian (Gael García Bernal, The Motorcycle Diaries) wants to denounce the injustices of the past, focusing on exp
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Proceeds will benefit the Buntport Theater Company
Sponsored by East High School
Drink specials in Henderson's Lounge following the screening!
35mm Presentation - Visionary director Wes Anderson's first animated film utilizes classic handmade stop-motion techniques to tell the sto
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Screens at 7:30pm on Tues, June 21 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Part of the Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou? series
35mm presentation - Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her turn as pregnant police chief Marge
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Special One Night Only presentation Wednesday, April 6th - 7pm
Juicing demonstration and sampling by Karen Falbo, CN, National Nutritional Program Manager for Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
Digital presentation - 100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a d
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Digital Presentation - Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a tricky but harmless fast-talker. But he knows how to have fun, which is exactly what he sets out to do when he feigns illness and talks his parents into letting him stay home from school. The perpetually lucky Ferris enlists his h
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FIGHT CLUB plays first followed by PANIC ROOM
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SEVEN plays first, followed by ALIEN 3
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35mm presentation - David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) -- a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by -- with a screenplay adapted from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The plot throws linear conventions upside down
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35mm presentation - In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas), a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad (Sean Penn) -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanoseco
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35mm presentation - David Fincher's chilling drama based on actual events in the 1960s and '70s recounts the infamous actions of a cryptic killer who stalked the streets of San Francisco in an executioner's hood and left clues about his crimes in the newspaper. Jake Gyllenhaal -- flanked by a
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Special showing presented by Regis University with Cinematographer Eric Steelberg IN-Person!
HD Digital Presentation - "This is a story of boy meets girl," begins the wry, probing narrator of (500) Days of Summer, and with that the film takes off at breakneck speed into a funny
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Screens Sunday, July 17th at 2:15pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Preceded by a fabulous Drag Brunch hosted by Annie's Cafe starting at Noon in our Henderson's Lounge (included in ticket price)!
Digital presentation - For 23 years, Florent, the legendary all-night eatery in
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END Sept 1 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - Tripp Kennedy (Patrick Dempsey) ambles into a bank near closing time, just as two different gangs unwittingly converge to rob it. A shoot--out erupts, and Tripp tackles
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Friday, June 17th at 7:45 & 10pm
The Found Footage Festival, the acclaimed touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos, will return to Denver as part of its 2011 North American tour. Hosts Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher, whose credits include The Onion and the Late Show with David Lette
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Wednesday, August 10th at 7pm at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
with post-film discussion by Nicole Garneau, PhD, curator of human health, DMNS
HD Digital presentation - With one eye on his lifelong dream of working in outer space, a genetically flawed but determined "In-Valid
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter/Colfax engagement MUST END July 7th
Digital presentation - Awarded for its visionary cinematography, General Orders No. 9 breaks from the constraints of the documentary form as it contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South.
The stunnin
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Special screening in conjunction with Regis University at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Ramin Bahrani will introduce the film!
35mm presentation - Winner of the Venice Film Festival's prestigious FIPRESCI Critics' Prize, 'Goodbye Solo' traces the brief, but life-changing frie
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MUST END Thursday, April 26th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - From writers Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg (Superbad) and Canadian cult director Michael Dowse (Fubar I and II) comes this hilarious tale that just may knock Slap Shot off it
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Exclusive Cinema Q presentation screens October 21st - 27th at the Denver FilmCenter!
35mm presentation - After three years in prison, Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), struggles to hide an emotional
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Digital presentation - Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is about the often uneasy but always beautiful relationship between music and love. It tells the story of a young Boston jazz musician who drifts from affair to affair, his trumpet the only constant in his life. He makes a promisi
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35mm presentation - All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on
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Saturday, April 23rd at 5:30pm - FREE Admission when you purchase a ticket to ANY show of PUTTY HILL!
16mm presentation - HAMILTON chronicles two summer days in the life of a young family: Lena, 17, and Joe
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MUST END April 14
Winner! Starz People's Choice Award for Best Feature - SDFF33
35mm presentations - Josh Radnor wrote, directed and stars in happythankyoumoreplease a sharp comedy centered on a group of 20-something New Yorkers struggling to figure out themselves, their lives and th
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B-Side to PINEAPPLE EXPRESS at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, July 13 - Sun, July 17 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Sometimes, it takes a strange night to put everything else into focus. And that's exactly what happens to Harold (John Cho) and his roommate, Kumar (Kal Penn), when they set out to
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Screens Saturday, July 16th at 4:45pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
35mm presentation - Xavier Dolan's sexy and stylish Heartbeats is a comic exploration of a romantically obsessed menage-a-trois. Heartbeats was a hit at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the Yout
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END June 16 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - Loud music. Pornography. Burning stuff to the ground. These are a few of Hesher's favorite things. And they are what Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) brings into the lives of TJ (Devin Brochu) and h
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35mm presentation - A train pulls into the station - it's the end of the line. A Hobo jumps from a freight car, hoping for a fresh start in a new city. Instead, he finds himself trapped in an urban hell. This is a world where criminals rule the streets and Drake, the city's crime boss, reigns
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MUST END March 10 at the new Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
This deliriously stylish, searingly erotic thriller tells what happens to an innocent young girl who takes a position with a rich and powerful family, in a household that resembles a pit of vipers. Eun-yi, played winningly by Cannes Festi
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Thursday September 8, 2011, 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Post-screening Q&A with China-based architect and CU visiting professor Scott Findley. Reception to follow at Chloe restaurant (free appetizers and cash bar). Tickets $25 for public/$20 for DFS members.In Partnership with Architectur
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35mm Presentation - Twenty-seven year old New York window washer J. Pierpont Finch believes he can be a success in the corporate world after he impulsively picks up the book "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying". The book promises its reader that he can climb the corporate ladder
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END July 14 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He is separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter, and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his employees, a fo
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MUST END Thursday, July 7
35mm presentation - I Am, a prismatic and probing exploration of our world, what's wrong with it, and what we can do to make it better, represents writer/director Tom Shadyac's first foray into non-fiction following a career as one of Hollywood's leadi
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Screens 7:00pm September 13 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
TASTING PROVIDED BY STUEBENS
Facing the prospect of closure after decades in New York’s Greenwich Village, Eve and Kenny Shopsin reflect on the past, present, and future of their iconic namesake eatery. While kvetching, swatting
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35mm Presentation - I Saw the Devil is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge from Korean genre master Kim Jee-woon (The Good, The Bad, The Weird and A Tale of Two Sisters). Oldboy’s Choi Min-sik plays Kyung-chul, a dangerous psychopat
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MUST END January 19th!
35mm presentation - Set against the spectacle of modern world power, the riveting political thriller The Ides of March is an intense tale of sex, ambition, loyalty, betrayal and revenge. The film takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily conteste
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When she was a child, Cheng Lai-sheung (Josie Ho) could see Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbour from her apartment. But as time passed, the old buildings in front of her home were demolished to make way for a huge residential project that now blocks her view. Increasingly disappointed and upset, she
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Fifteen-year-old Emma Hawkins is like any other teenage girl; she thinks that her parents don't understand her. She longs for independence and a life free of family ties and responsibilities, and she is prepared to do anything to achieve it. But one day she will be forced to face up to the consequen
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Screens Saturday, February 5th at Midnight
Digital presentation - SHADOW tells the strangely ethereal story of David (Jake Muxworthy), a young soldier returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, who decides to go on a mountain biking adventure in Europe to forget his battle-weary past.
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A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise block, these two opposing gangs find that they are not a
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Saturday, February 19 at Midnight
Digital presentation - This is a true story. Consumed with self-loathing, nineteen year old Caroline covets, stalks, abducts then murders fifteen year old Rachel Barber whom she considers “perfect”; everything she is not: beautiful, self-assured, happ
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Saturday, February 26 at Midnight!
Digital presentation - Calm office worker Anthony, son of an American father and a Japanese mother, lives in Tokyo with his wife Yuriko and their little son Tom. Since Anthony's mother died of cancer, his scientist father has been overly fearful for
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MUST END March 10 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - The Illusionist, an Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature, is a story about two paths that cross. An outdated, aging magician, forced to wander from country to country, city to city and station to station
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Friday & Saturday, June 29 & 30 at 9:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
A special presentation with live comedy DURING the film by Harrison Rains and SPECIAL GUESTS!
Celebrate American COMEDY Independence when this sci-fi classic goes head to head against the guys of Mile High Sci-Fi. Wil
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Thursday, October 27th at 5pm at the Denver FilmCenter
Presented by ASIFA
Digital presentation - As part of the 10th Annual International Animation Day, ASIFA-Colorado (the local chapter of the International Animated Film Society, ASIFA) is proud to present a collection of short anim
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Exclusive Denver Engagement MUST END September 8th
Digital presentation - From the director of Hoop Dreams and the author of There Are No Children Here, THE INTERRUPTERS is a gripping portrait of modern-day heroes. In Chicago’s CeaseFire organization, reformed gang members protect the
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Digital presentation - Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent reposit
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MUST END Feb 10 at the NEW Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - International megastar Donnie Yen reprises his iconic role as the real-life kung fu grandmaster Ip Man in this martial arts spectacular. After escaping the Japanese occupation of his hometown of Foshan, China, Ip
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MUST END December 1st at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - Rocker Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola) and his band are on the comeback trail when a former flame (Academy Award® nominee Elisabeth Shue) drops a bomb in his lap: their 13-year-old daughter, Janie Jones (Academy
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Digital presentation - On September 5th 1661, an astonishing news fall: Fouquet, the powerful king’s counselor, has been arrested on the order of Colbert. Louis XIV becomes the only master of France.
While all artists fall in line behind the king, a man stands in support of the fallen coun
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MUST END Thursday, May 24th!
35mm Presentation - Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a quiet yet enthralling documentary that chronicles the life of Jiro Ono, the most famous sushi chef in Tokyo. For most of his 85 years, Jiro has been perfecting the art of making sushi. He works from sunrise to
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MUST END March 24
35mm Presentation - Kaboom is a wild, witty, sex-drenched horror-comedy thriller, the latest film from iconoclastic independent filmmaker Gregg Araki (The Doom Generation, Nowhere, Mysterious Skin). Featuring a gorgeous young cast, this hyper-stylized "Twin Pe
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Screens Saturday, July 16th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - When dastardly villains Medusa (Loni Anderson) and Lothar Zogg (Jim Varney) and their evil cohorts invade a family fun park and take its summer visitors hostage, it's up to the three ninjas to save t
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Screens Saturday, July 30th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - Elmo dives into Oscar the Grouch's trash can after a series of accidents sends the furry red monster's special blanket into Grouchland. To rescue his beloved blankie, Elmo must face the evil Huxley (
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Saturday, June 11th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Based on the Depression-era comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," this adaptation of the smash Broadway musical follows America's favorite urchin (Aileen Quinn) as she captures Daddy Warbucks's (Albert Finney) heart with her optimism -- and
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Saturday, August 6th at 11am - FREE for kids and parents
Digital presentation - After winning the sheepherding contest, Babe (voiced by Elizabeth Daily) comes home to the reality that Farmer and Mrs. Hoggett (James Cromwell and Magda Szubanski) may lose their land. The prize porker an
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Saturday, February 26 at 11am - FREE for parents and kids!
Get ready for Barbie A Fairy Secret, an amazing adventure with Barbie where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie's two fashion stylist friends
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Screens Saturday, July 23rd at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - This animated adventure goes back in time to the Care Bears' first-ever Caring Mission, when True Heart Bear and Noble Heart Horse touch down on Earth to boost the spirits of some unhappy kids at sum
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Saturday, March 12th at 11am - FREE for kids and parents!
Everybody's favorite trainees are ready to save the day! Hong your horns for the worldwide hit television series that delivers action and laughter from Chuggington! In these six episodes Brewster, Wilson and Koko find fun and exciteme
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They're trainees! They're making tracks! Wheels to the rail! Clickety Clack! Honk your horns for the new hit television series about eager young engines Wilson, Brewster and Koko as they learn to become working trainees in the land of Chuggington. Trainees find fun and excitement as they get lost in
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Digital presentation - Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the
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Screens Saturday, August 13th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - Villainous Gru (Steve Carell) lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy when he hatches a plan to steal the moon from the sky. But he has a tough time stayi
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Saturday, March 5th at 11am - FREE for parents and Kids!
In a new spin on the beloved fairy tale, Red, Granny, the Big Bad Wolf and the Woodsman, all face Detective Flippers as he attempts to determine the “real” events of the Little Red Riding Hood story. Original songs and witty humor fil
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Saturday, February 19th - 11am - FREE!
The Japanese animation sensation comes to America! Made up of five films: 'The First Step', 'Hands on Camera', 'Koma and Radi-bo', 'Radi-bo's Battle' and the film's main attraction 'Real Friends'.
Ages 2 - 6
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Saturday, at 11am - FREE for kids and parents
"I think I can, I think I can" The timeless story comes to life in this all-new, feature-length film filled with fun and adventure! When Little Engine (Alyson Stoner, Cheaper by the Dozen) must leave Dreamland to deliver toys into the real world,
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Screens 11am Saturday Feb 5 - FREE!
When Gobie's pet dragon, Be Be, is seriously hurt in a skiing accident, Gobie and his other pet dragon, Kuma, set off to Santaland to ask Santa to grant him a wish - that Be Be will get better.
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Screens Saturday, July 2nd at 11am - FREE for kids and parents!
Digital presentation - Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frigh
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Screens Saturday, July 9th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - When Gonzo's breakfast cereal tells him that he's the descendant of aliens from another planet, his attempts at extraterrestrial communication get him kidnapped by a secret government agency, promptin
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Screens Saturday, August 27th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - The recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and his domineering aunt (Angela Lansbury) can't seem to control the numerous and naughty Brown children until Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) -- a charact
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Digital presentation - After saving a mule deer from a hunter's clutches, a domesticated grizzly finds himself relocated to the wild -- and unprepared for the real world. Can the furry pals make it to safety before open season starts, or will they end up mounted on a wall? Ashton Kutcher, Gar
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Saturday, January 15 at 11am at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax - FREE!
Ever wonder what it would be like if everybody switched places and kids ran the world? Ariel Winter ("Modern Family"), French Stewart ("3rd Rock From The Sun"), Rene Taylor ("The Nanny"), Pauly Shore (Encino Man) and Dick V
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Digital presentation - When Earth astronaut Capt. Chuck Baker (Dwayne Johnson) arrives on Planet 51 -- a world reminiscent of American suburbia circa 1950 -- he tries to avoid capture, recover his spaceship and make it home safely, all with the help of an empathetic little green being. Joe St
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Fabulous new fashions, sparkling musical 'Glamicures' and delightful new 'Dos' have Strawberry and her friends 'Puttin' on the Glitz!' But all that dazzles quickly unravels with a misunderstanding until the girls find creative and kind ways to be honest with their feelings and with their friends. It
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Digital presentation - Mr. and Mrs. Little (Hugh Laurie and Geena Davis, respectively) want to adopt a brother for their only child, George (Jonathan Lipnicki). They get more than they bargained for at the orphanage, however, when they meet the precocious Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox) --
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Saturday, June 25th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents!
Digital presentation - In this Oscar-nominated mockumentary from animators Ash Brannon and Chris Buck, film crews go behind the scenes at the Penguin World Surfing Championship to provide a close-up look at the inventors of surfin
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Screens Saturday, August 20th at 11am - FREE for parents & kids!
Digital presentation - This star-studded adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's Newberry Medal-winning book tells the tale of an unusually gifted mouse named Despereaux (voiced by Matthew Broderick) who falls in love with a huma
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A family comedy that's a breed apart. Sonny, a mobster's bulldog, swallows his master's precious ring and runs away. With two bird-brained henchmen on his tail, Sonny finds a new home in the suburbs with the Franks family. Twelve-year-old Josh and his mom think Sonny is really cool and super smart,
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Daniel is a little dolphin with big dreams, living in a world where dreams are forbidden. He ventures beyond the safety of his pod and follows his heart into the unknown, in search of the true purpose of life. The journey won't be easy he will encounter friends and enemies, paradise and danger, an
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Digital presentation - After moving to Beijing with his mother, Dre (Jaden Smith) falls prey to a bully, so he takes lessons from martial arts master Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) in this remake of The Karate Kid. While Mr. Han teaches Dre to defend himself, he also imparts some important life lesson
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Saturday, June 18th at 11am - FREE for kids & parents
Digital presentation - When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and
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The adventurous journey of a rare white lion cub, who rises above many challenges to become one of the most powerful and revered lions in all of Africa. Features lions trained by Kevin Richardson, star of the NatGeo series, "The Lion Ranger"!
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Saturday, April 30th at 11am - FREE for Parents And Kids!!
35mm presentation - Director Robert Zemeckis seamlessly mixes live action with animation wizardry in this cinematic groundbreaker featuring Bob Hoskins as gruff gumshoe Eddie Valiant, who agrees to take the case of Roger Rabbi
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Saturday, January 8 at 11am - FREE for parents and kids!
Join Wubbzy as he blasts off on the ultimate outer space adventure! What happens when Wubbzy thinks aliens are coming to Wuzzleburg? Why is Widget building a huge television with 30 different screen? How far will friends go to wake up
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Saturday, April 9th at 11am - FREE For Kids & Parents
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! The group celebrates the most egg-cellent Easter ever! Nobody celebrates the Easter season quite like Wubbzy and his friends! In these six egg-ceptional episodes, Wubbzy discovers new ways to decorate eggs for the Easter
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MUST END May 5 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene (Ray Stevenson) and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman<
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Wednesday, April 27th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Gaylen Ross In-Person for a post-film talk back!
In partnership with Holocaust Awareness Institute at University of Denver's Center for Judaic Studies
Digital presentation - Israel’s most inflammatory political tr
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MUST END Thurs, Jan 22nd
Winner of the Starz People's Choice Award for Narrative Feature - SDFF34
35mm presentation - In the genocide that swept though Rwanda in 1994, the Hutu ethnic majority killed almost a million Tutsis—a bloody tragedy that was the subject of the 2004 Oscar nomi
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MLL All-Star Game Viewing Party
The Denver Outlaws and Denver Film Society have teamed up to provide a great night of lacrosse. We will start off with a youth lacrosse clinic for players in grades 2-8 on July 9th from 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm at Denver East High School. After the clinic, everyone c
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MUST END Friday, April 21 at the Denver FilmCenter Colfax
35mm presentation - From the lush wetlands of Botswana’s Okavango Delta comes the suspense-filled tale of a determined lioness ready to try anything—and willing to risk everything—to keep her family alive. In the new wildlife a
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35mm presentation - Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is the world’s largest human migration—an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rura
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Special Limited Engagement screens May 19, 20 and 21 at 9:45pm!
HD Digital presentation - In 1920s China, the nation is divided by infighting. Japan has become the most powerful force in Asia, taking over Northern Shanghai. With the city torn in half by international conflict, the pop
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter engagement screens MUST END September 8th
Digital presentation - A sleepy-eyed exurb of Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of two young Japanese tourists, stranded there with a broken rental car. One (Rintaro Sawamoto) wants to leave as soon as possible,
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Special Presentation Thursday, May 5th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Mardana M. Mayginnes and Actor Colin Michael Day In-Person!
Digital presentation - Jamie is disillusioned with a dead-end job and a suffocating relationship with his girlfriend. On aquest for enlig
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Sunday, December 23rd at 2pm at the SIE FilmCenter
Hosted by Robert Denerstein with holiday drink specials at Henderson's Lounge!
HD Digital presentation - All of London is in love -- or longing to be -- in Four Weddings and a Funeral writer Richard Curtis' first directorial effort.
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Digital presentation - The documentary Lunch Line takes a new look at the school lunch program by exploring its past, its current challenges, and its opportunities for the future. The National School Lunch Program began in 1946, and now, more than 60 years later, the program feeds more than 3
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Denver FilmCenter exclusive MUST END September 29th
35mm Presentation - Magic Trip is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' legendary LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip in the psychedelic Magic Bus (named "Further"). In 1964, 29-year-old Kesey, author of O
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MUST END Thursday, January 5th!
Director Carl Colby IN-PERSON Thursday, January 5th at the 5:00 & 7:20pm shows!
35mm presentation - A son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller, THE MAN NOBODY KNEW: IN SEARCH OF MY FATHER, CIA SPYMASTER WILLIAM C
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Jasmine McGlade Chazelle's witty feature debut examines the unlikely friendship between a young café waitress who's grieving the death of her mother and a strangely insightful maternal figure (Hollywood veteran Karen Black)—who also happens to be a compulsive hoarder.
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END June 16 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - The year is 1845, the earliest days of the Oregon Trail, and a wagon team of three families has hired the mountain man Stephen Meek (Bruce Greenwood) to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Cl
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Friday, Oct 28 at 7pm & Saturday, Oct 29 at 9:30pm
Bad Movies. Good Comedy.
What's scarier than Emilio Estevez as the sole marquee name in a horror movie about computer controlled items that become self aware and come after us humans? Well, the fact that Stephen King stepped out of his day
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Bad Movies. Good Comedy.
The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shuttle is accidently launched into orbit.
Harrison will be joined by a few 14 year olds who have been coming to Mile High Sci-Fi like, their whole lives.
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35mm presentation - Don’t miss the breathtaking new animated adventure from Jacques-Rémy Girerd, winner of Best Animated Feature at the European Film Awards. Created from an astounding 500,000 hand-painted frames of animation, the film features superb performances by John DiMaggio, Whoopi Gol
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In the year 1958, the planet Ven
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There's no beast like Snowbeast...
You do not want to miss this one - it is unreal. It is about a yeti that attacks Crested Butte Colorado (oh no!) and terrorizes the town during their big Winter Carnival (which looks about as fun as sing-a-long hour in a nursing home, so really, the yeti d
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Friday & Saturday, March 25 & 26 at 8pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
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Friday, August 26th at 7pm and Saturday, August 27th at 9:30pm
This weekend see the Fly II get mercilessly mauled by the movie mocking mad men of mile high sci-fi!!! (actually there is a woman doing the show with Harrison this weekend but that messes up the awesome alliteration above so j
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Friday, Nov 25 at 7pm & Saturday, Nov 26 at 9:30pm
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Friday, July 29th at 7pm and Saturday, July 30th at 9:30pm
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Long before Tom Hanks started taking himself WAAAAY too seriously and decided that everything he touched was Oscar-worthy, he cut his hair really short on the sides, but left it long and curly on top, and filmed the notorious film "Big." (Hey big-shot important film Actor Man, we're not stupid. We
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New Time! Friday May 27th at 7pm and Saturday May 28th at 9:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
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35mm presentation - From Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls and Basquiat, comes Miral, the visceral, first-person diary of a young girl (played by Freida Pinto) growing up in East Jerusalem as she confronts the effects of occupation and war in e
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MUST END January 19th
35mm Presentation - Moneyball is based on the true story of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt)—once a would-be baseball superstar who turned his fiercely competitive nature to management. Heading into the 2002 season, Billy faces a dismal situation: his small-market Oakland
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MUST END March 24 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - Thirty-somethings Theo (Chris Messina) and Nat (Rashida Jones) are engaged. He’s a wedding photographer, she’s an aspiring singer/songwriter, and together they live a picturesque life in a sprawling New York loft. T
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Wednesday, August 3rd at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
with post-film discussion by Ka Chun Yu, PhD, curator of space sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
35mm Presentation - In the near future, astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is living on the far side of the moon, nea
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35mm Presentation - Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry, defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party- hard life centers around the Moulin Rouge, a world
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Digital presentation - When the USSR broke apart in 1991, a generation of young people faced a new realm of possibilities. An intimate epic about the extraordinary lives of this last Soviet generation, Robin Hessman’s feature documentary debut tells the stories of five Moscow schoolmates who
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HD Digital presentation - Tragedy reunites childhood friends Sean (Kevin Bacon), Dave (Tim Robbins) and Jimmy (Sean Penn) when they're linked together in the Boston-based murder investigation of Jimmy's teenage daughter. But while detective Sean works the case, Jimmy launches his own quest fo
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement MUST END August 25th
35mm presentation - An official selection of the Cannes Critics Week and winner of the Special Jury Prize at SXSW, THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN SLEEPOVER is a youthful and tender coming-of-age drama from first-time writer/directo
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Saturday October 1, 2011, 7pm at the Denver Art Museum’s Sharp Auditorium.
With Min Wang, Design Director for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in person. GALA CLOSING NIGHT RECEPTION TO FOLLOW at RedLine Gallery in association with the Cumulus International Design Conference – more than 300 designe
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Screens Tuesday, July 19th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by Eric Elkins
Presented in cooperation with E-3 Events
35mm presentation - Galia, a young woman from Jerusalem, and her boyfriend Oren board a local bus. The b
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Screens Tuesday, July 12th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by: Herzl Melmed
Digital presentation - In Israel in the early 1960s, a new generation is growing up: the militant Israeli that will not go through another Holocaust. Aharon, a 13-year old with a highly
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Screens Tuesday, July 5th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Exclusive Engagement continues July 8 - 14
Introduced by Ellen Premack
35mm presentation - The Human Resources Manager of Jerusalem's l
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Screens Tuesday, July 26th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by Arlene Hirschfeld
Digital presentation - Named after the local soccer stadium in the Southern Israeli town of Beer Sheba, Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers from separate marginalized communiti
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MUST END February 3 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
In 1976, after years of mysterious absence, Marcus (Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker) returns to the Philadelphia neighborhood where he came of age in the midst of the Black Power movement. While his arrival raises suspicion among his
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Exclusive Engagement must end August 11th at the Denver FilmCenter
35mm presentation - Nora had a plan. It would bring her ex-husband, Jose, and the rest of their family together for a magnificent Passover feast. But there is a flaw in her plan- a mysterious photograph from the past,
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Screens at 7:30 on Tues, June 7th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Part of the Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou? series
35mm presentation - With their collective eye focused on retrieving a cache of hidden money, thr
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Screens at 7:30 & 10pm Tues, Aug 2 as part of our DeMented.DeRanged. DeCeptive. DEPALMA series!
35mm presentation - While vacationing in Italy, Michael Courtland (Cliff Robinson) spots a mysterious woman (Genevive Bujold) bearing an eerie resemblance to his late wife -- who, along wit
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Digital presentation - ON COAL RIVER takes viewers on a gripping emotional journey into the Coal River Valley of West Virginia — a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows a former coal miner and his neighbors in a David-and-Goliath struggle for the
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The true story of a group of Peace Corps volunteers who take part in a mission to eradicate smallpox in remote Afghanistan. Part of a four part series leading up to the 50th anniversary celebration of the Peace Corps.
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Screens Monday, September 19th at 7pm - FREE Screening as part of One Book, One Denver's Community Events
Digital presentation - When Samantha LeBon (Lysette Anthony) hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee -- the unsuspecting, blithesome James (John Travol
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Screens Monday, September 5th at 7pm - FREE Screening as part of One Book, One Denver's Community Events
Digital presentation - Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson star in this big-screen tearjerker based on a best-selling memoir as a newly married couple who, in the process of starting
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Screens Monday, September 26th at 7pm - FREE Screening as part of One Book, One Denver's Community Events
35mm presentation - Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) gives a powerful breakout performance in this feminine variation on Into the Wild. Wendy Carroll (Williams) is d
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Screens Monday, September 12th at 7pm - FREE Screening as part of One Book, One Denver's Community Events
Digital presentation - Professional race-car driver Frank Capua (Paul Newman) takes a breather from the racing circuit to focus on fatherhood after marrying a single mother (Joann
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MUST END Sunday, February 27th!!
Digital presentation - Once again we're happy to offer audiences a chance to see this year's Academy Award nominees in the category of Best Documentary Short.
KILLING IN THE NAME USA/39 MIN - Director: Jed Rothstein
Ashraf Al-Khaled was celebrating t
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35mm presentation - The radiant Natalie Portman (CLOSER, BLACK SWAN) lights up the screen in this frank, funny, and heart-wrenching adaptation of bestselling author Ayelet Waldman’s novel about life, loss, and family directed by Don Roos (THE OPPOSITE OF SEX, HAPPY ENDINGS).
Emilia (Portman)
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Exclusive Engagement Screens MUST END Aug 25
35mm Presentation- In the tradition of great fly-on-the-wall documentaries, Page One: Inside the New York Times deftly gains unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Inter
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Special Presentation Wednesday, October 12th at 7pm
Presented by Sweat Equity
Digital presentation - THIS LAND IS ... WHOSE LAND? Pedal-Driven delves into the escalating conflict between mountain bikers with their hunger to ride and the federal land managers charged with protecting t
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B-Side to EDWARD SCISSORHANDS at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, June 29 - Sun, July 3 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - When his treasured bicycle is stolen, Pee-Wee Herman (Paul Reubens) is devastated -- and he'll do anything to get it back. Working off a hot tip that his
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MUST END June 30th
Digital presentation - The passion the original Star Wars trilogy inspires in its fans is unparalleled; but when it comes to George Lucas himself—one of the most passionately debated filmmakers of all time—many have found their ardor has cooled into a complicated lo
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MUST END March 17 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - As our country continues to embroil itself in foreign wars and pins its hopes on a new leader's promise for change, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune is a timely and relevant tribute to an unlikely American hero.
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Cinema Q Film Festival Opening Night Film
Thursday, July 14th at 7pm
Presented by the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
Director Alan Dominguez and various subjects from the film in-person for a post-film panel discussion and reception at X bar (included in ticket price)
Digital presentat
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Digital presentation - A raw and personal video diary, charts model Sara Ziff’s rise from fresh face to one that adorns billboards and magazines around the world. Ziff and filmmaker, Ole Schell, co-direct the documentary, lifting the veil on the glamorous world of high fashion modeling, from
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Digital presentation - PLANEAT' tells the story of the scientists, farmers and chefs tackling one of the greatest problems of our age, the West’s love affair with meat and dairy. Through an extraordinary personal and mouthwatering culinary journey we discover why it’s bad for our health, the
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Screens Saturday, July 16th at 2pm as part of the Cinema Q Film Festival
Brand New 35mm presentation - Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, Todd Haynes’ controversial masterpiece Poison returns to the screen for a 20th Anniversary Re-release in a n
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11am Sunday, December 16th
FREE – first-come, first-seated. Hot Cocoa and Holiday Cookies w/ Santa following screening.
A young boy's faith in the holiday spirit is revived after he makes his way by train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in this warm-hearted computer-animated tale inspi
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A lively discussion moderated by Clyfford Still Museum Executive Director, Dean Sobel to follow the film.
Join the 1944 Society members for a special reception in Henderson's Lounge fr
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B-Side to TERMINATOR 2 at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, Aug 3 - Sun, Aug 7 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - Two real-life governors -- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Dutch) and Jesse Ventura (Sgt. Blain) -- use their muscled intellects to pursue a force more sinister than sta
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MUST END Thursday April 28
Digital presentation - A beautifully realized portrait of a close–knit community on the outskirts of Baltimore, PUTTY HILL is the second feature from celebrated young filmmaker Matt Porterfield (HAMILTON). At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family ga
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MUST END March 3 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm presentation - Rabbit Hole is a vivid, hopeful, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of all situations. Becca and Howie Corbett (Best Actress nominee Nicole K
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Screens at 7:30pm Tues, June 14 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Part of the Coen Brothers, Where Art Thou? series
35mm presentation - Ex-cop Edwina "Ed" McDonnough (Holly Hunter) and her ex-con husband, H.I. (Nic
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Special FREE presentation Wednesday, August 10th at 7pm. Happy hour starts at 6 PM.
Special screening to get Denver filmgoers in the mood to attend the Reel Social Club Summer Scream at Lakeside Amusement Park on Thursday, August 25! Enjoy refreshments from our Summer Scream sponsor, Colorad
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement must end July 28th
35mm presentation - REJOICE AND SHOUT traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the em
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement Screens Oct 7 - 13
35mm Presention - Annabel Cotton (Mia Wasikowska) is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deeply felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper) is a young man who has dropped out of the bu
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B-Side to TOP GUN at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, July 6 - Sun, July 10 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - With his parents on vacation, high schooler Joel (Tom Cruise) -- abetted by a prostitute named Lana (Rebecca De Mornay) -- turns opportunity into disaster as he t
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Wednesday, September 30 - 7pm - FREE!
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Pat Spurgeon has big dreams to make it as an indie rock musician. Just as his career is about to take off, he suffers an incredible setback when one of his kidneys begins to fail. Follow Pat on his emotiona
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Wednesday, February 16
6pm Reception, 7pm Screening
Starz FilmCenter
900 Auraria Parkway
Denver, CO 80204
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In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder. There was no question that a 43-y
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Following the film, join Clyfford Still Museum staff and Nancy Tieken of the Denver Art Museum for a post film Q&A session. Nancy has served as a curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum, where she wrote the companion guide for Focus: Robert Motherwell, on view now at the
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Exclusive Cinema Q presentation MUST END September 22nd
Digital presentation - Lukas, 20 is right in the midst of male puberty – medically triggered – for he was in fact born a girl. Full of the zest for life, he enters big-city life but even upon arrival encounters a major screw-up:
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35mm Presentation - Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert but suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anythin
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement Must End Oct 20
Digital presentation – YOU BETCHA! chronicles Broomfield’s quest to unveil the “real” Sarah Palin, and follows the filmmaker as he battles the icy snows of Alaska in mid-winter to speak to the school friends, family, and Republica
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35mm presentation - Director John Badham's musical ushered in the disco craze with the character of 19-year-old Tony Manero (John Travolta). By day, Tony's a paint store clerk, but at night he's a polyester-clad stallion who rules a Brooklyn nightspot with his partner, Stephanie (Karen Lynn G
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Digital presentation - In this somber Korean drama, a young mother and widow, Shin-ae, moves with her young son, Jun, from Seoul to a small town called Miryang following her husband's death. Having given up on her career as a concert pianist when she married her husband, she starts up a pian
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One Night Only! Thursday, January 27 at 7pm
Presented by Denver Film Society and Twist and Shout Records
Digital presentation - THE SECRET TO A HAPPY ENDING documents the Drive-By Truckers and their congregation of fans as they explore tales of human weakness and redemption. Filmmak
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Exclusive Engagement Must End Oct 6 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - Brazilian Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter engagement MUST END September 22nd
Digital presentation - As feuding warlords fight to expand their power, the noble monks of the Shaolin Temple clean up the mess left behind, tending to the injured while trying their best to protect the poor and weak. Gene
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Sunday, May 1st at the Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day
The complete 9 1/2 hour epic presented in TWO parts (each with separate admission)
FIRST ERA starts at Noon (273mins) and SECOND ERA starts at 5pm (292mins)
35mm presentation - On the occasion of
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter engagement Must End October 6th
Digital presentation - The most important audio recording released in the nineties wasn’t a collection of songs by a self-tortured alternative star. The most important recording released in the grunge era was entitled ShUT Up
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35mm presentation - World War II soldier-turned-U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his own troubling visions and by Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley). Mark Ruffalo, Mi
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Plays Wednesday, Nov 16th at 2pm and Thursday, Nov 17th at 9:30pm as part of our Growing Payne series!
35mm presentation - Two men go on an excursion to California wine country and end up inducing joint midlife crises in this critically acclaimed comedy-drama that won six Independent
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Special FREE program Sunday, September 18th at 2pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz to prepare you for the upcoming Denver Silent Film Festival
Digital presentations - First come the NOTS. Silent film movement was and is NOT herky-jerky; the films are NOT naïve, stupid or boring.
Most imp
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Must End Thursday, December 15th at the Denver FilmCenter
35mm presentation - Ever since his wife was burned in a car crash, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), an eminent plastic surgeon, has been obsessed with creating a new skin with which he could have saved her. After twelve y
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MUST END Thurs, Jan 5th
35mm presentation - Jane Campion presents SLEEPING BEAUTY, the bold and provocative directorial debut of Julia Leigh, an official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Chicago film festivals. Featuring a phenomenal breakthrough performance by Emily Browning, thi
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MUST END March 3
35mm presentation - On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland, The Squid and the Whale) sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and
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Saturday September 17, 2011, 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Post-screening discussion to follow with David Grooms of Vega Architects. Tickets $12 public / $10 DFS members. Continuing education credit available to AIA members.
Sponsored by Vega Architecture.
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Special Presentation Wednesday, June 1st at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by film critic Walter Chaw who will also lead a post film discussion
HD Digital presentation - In honor of the release of Terrence Malick's latest film TREE OF LIFE we are happy to present one
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement screens October 21st - 30th
35mm presentation - In this darkly erotic drama from cult filmmaker Jeanne Labrune, Isabelle Huppert stars as a high-class prostitute named Alice who serves up sexual fantasies for her clientele, from schoolgirl innoce
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35mm presentation - Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) stars as Speed in this big-screen adaptation of the popular 1960s-era Japanese animated series from directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, the minds behind the blockbuster Matrix trilogy. With the support of his parents (Susan Sarandon and John Go
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Back by Popular Demand - The hit of the Cinema Q Film Festival!
Exclusive Engagement ends August 25th at the Denver FilmCenter
Digital presentation -Junior high isn't easy for anyone—especially if you're a frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked hermaphrodite like Spork. Neither a spoon, nor a f
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Screens Sunday, July 31st at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by Donald Zuckerman
35mm presentation - Ana is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother, Uli, when he travels to France due to the death of their father. She decides to return to Israel to search for
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Screens Sunday, July 10th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by Shaul Gabbay
35mm presentation - This first long feature, designed as an immense “tableau vivant”, tells the Old Testament story of Esther, who does not know she is Jewish when she is chosen by King Asha
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Screens Sunday, July 24th at 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Introduced by Robert Hasan
35mm presentation - Abandoned by its Palestinian owner in the 1948 war; requisitioned by the Israeli government as vacant; rented to Jewish Algerian immigrants in 1956; purchased by a univer
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B-Side to THE GOONIES at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, July 27 - Sun, July 31 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - In this Rob Reiner dramatization of Stephen King's novella The Body, a writer (Richard Dreyfuss) tells the story of how four boys sought adventure and herois
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Digital presentation - The new film from the 101-year-old master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, is a magical tale of an impossible love. Late one night, Isaac, a young photographer, is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last portrait of their daughter, Angelica, who has mysteriously pass
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END July 14 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) has two big ambitions: to save his parents' marriage via carefully plotted intervention and to lose his virginity before his next birthday. Worried
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Digital presentation - In the award-winning Japanese animated feature Summer Wars, Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job—passing himself off as Natsuki’s boyfriend for four days during her grandmother’s 90th birthday celebration. But
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Special presentation Wednesday, September 28th at 8pm
Sunset Limo is providing food and drinks before the film for those buy a special VIP Package!
Digital presentation - Often considered one of the icons of 1970s independent horror cinema, director Don Coscarelli's classic nail-bite
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Through Thursday, December 15th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - In 2008, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova captivated audiences and earned two Academy Awards for their musical collaboration in the film Once, which reached $10 million at the box office and grew th
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A film version of Shakespeare’s play, and Laurence Olivier’s first on-screen Shakespeare (as Orlando). Elisabeth Bergner plays Rosalind.
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
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NEW DAY & TIME! Sunday, August 7th at 2pm - FREE Tickets available at the box office at 1pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
Digital presentation - John Ford’s version of John Steinbeck’s novel is deeply atmospheric. It wa
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Saturday, March 5th at 7pm - FREE Tickets available at the box office at 6pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
16mm presentation - “Isadora Duncan” is not quite a biography, although it contains biographical information,
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NEW DAY & TIME! Sunday, July 3rd at 2pm - FREE Tickets available at the box office at 1pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
Digital presentation - Based loosely on the last election campaign run by the famed – and infamous
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Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
A Nazi submarine sinks an American passenger ship in the Atlantic, and it too goes down. A few survivors, including the German commander, are left to figure things out in a single lifeboat for th
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NEW DAY & TIME! Sunday, September 4th at 2pm - FREE Tickets available at the box office at 1pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
Digital presentation - Originally a Theater Guild stage production, this film is much less stag
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Digital presentation - Michael Redgrave plays a lonely, dried-up professor of literature on the eve of his retirement, who gets a slight reprieve from one of his students. Redgrave gives a masterful performance.
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Color
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Screens Sunday, October 2nd at 2pm - Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
FREE tickets available one hour before showtime at our box office
Digital presentation - The great American orator Daniel Webster (Edward Arnold) is locked in combat with Mr. Scratch, who is really the Devil incarnate, a
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Saturday, April 2nd at 7pm - FREE Tickets available at the box office at 6pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
Paul Robeson plays the lead in a film version of the play by Eugene O’Neill. He’s simply an incredible, electric perf
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Sunday, December 4th at 2pm Hosted by Howie Movshovitz
FREE Tickets available One Hour before showtime
Presented by Tattered Cover Book Store and Colorado Public Radio
Digital presentation - For one of the few times in his career, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman went for delight ins
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Saturday, June 4th at 7pm - FREE Tickets available at the box office at 6pm
Hosted by Howie Movshovitz and presented by Tattered Cover Bookstore and Colorado Public Radio
“The River” comes from a novel by Rumer Godden about an English family living along the banks of the Ganges, and in the
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B-Side to FRIDAY THE 13TH at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, Aug 24 - Sun, Aug 28 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital Presentation - Director Tobe Hooper's horror classic is a gruesome reminder that a movie need not be complicated to scare the daylights out of viewers. Sally (Marilyn Bur
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement MUST END July 21st
35mm presentation - The First Beautiful Thing (La Prima Cosa Bella) is Italy's 2011 Academy Award® submission. The film follows a strong and optimistic mother raising her two children against all odds. Throughout grief and pain
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Post Film Q&A with Kira van Lil, Assistant Professor of Art History at University of Colorado at Boulder. A Modern & Contemporary Art specialist, Kira has served as a curator for Hallen für Neue Kunst, a contemporary art museum in Switzerland and as an editor for ART, a German contemporary ar
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END August 18th at the Denver FilmCenter
Showtimes available Tuesday, August 9th
Digital presentation - French provocateur Catherine Breillat (Fat Girl, Bluebeard) continues her deconstruction of classic fairytales with her latest, The Sleeping Beauty
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END Sept 15 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - The exquisite Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist, The Science of Sleep) stars in French filmmaker Julie Bertuccelli's achingly beautiful follow-up to her sleeper hit Since Otar Left.
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35mm presentation - Stripping nude to leave no evidence of his crimes, serial killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) seems unstoppable as he murders young women who have wronged him. But he messes with the wrong person when he chooses the daughter of cop Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) as his next v
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Plays Friday, March 25th at 10pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax!
Special pre-show by musical wunderkind Ian Cooke, charming you with his delightful renditions of some of ABBA's biggest hits!
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35mm presentation - Invited to perform at a casino in remote Alice Springs, Australia, drag queens Mitzi (Hugo Weaving) and Felicia (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) hit the road in a broken-down lavender bus named Priscilla in this campy comedy classic. Along the way, t
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Actress Heather Langenkamp IN-PERSON to present I AM NANCY, do a post-film Q&A and then meet and sign autographs for her fans!
Digital presentation - While Freddy Kreuger may have hordes of fans across the world wrapped around his bladed finger the truth can't be denied that this cin
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35mm presentation - This campy cult classic charts the fortunes of fresh-faced Canadian musical duo Alphie (George Gilmour) and Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart), who enter the Worldvision Song Contest and lose thanks to a scheming record industry titan named Mr. Boogalow (Vladek Sheybal). Though
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HD Digital presentation - Trouble returns to Gotham in director Tim Burton's sequel as Batman (Michael Keaton) battles three new villains plotting to take over the city, including corrupt businessman Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), the hideous Penguin (Danny DeVito) and the mysterious Catwom
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Denver FilmCenter Spirit Night! Special Pre-Film Cheer Battle by the East High School Angels! FREE Basil Doc's Pizza! Specials on spirits at Henderson's Lounge! Be Excited! BE! BE! EXCITED!
35mm presentation - The Toro cheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School in San Diego has
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35mm presentation - A rap version of This Is Spinal Tap, CB4 stars Chris Rock as Albert, a wanna-be rap star who, along with two friends, is trying in vain to break into the business. When Albert is mistaken for an undercover cop by a thug named Murphy, he adopts the newly incarcerated Murphy
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Based on the E.C. comic books of the 1950s, this horror anthology includes radioactive meteorites, a creepy Father's Day party, a monster in a crate and thousands of cockroaches. Venerable horror director George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and screenwriter Stephen King are responsible for the
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35mm presentation - Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian (Ryan Phillippe), to deflower their headmaster's daughter (Reese Witherspoon) before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if
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35mm presentation - When his friend is beaten to death by a group of thugs, vigilante Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) steps in to seek revenge. Granted permission by the police to kill punks at will, Paul engages in all-out warfare against Manny Fraker (Gavin O'Herlihy) and his powerful gang. A
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35mm presentation - To get you in the mood for this summer's Spielberg-palooza SUPER 8, The Watching Hour brings you this classic summer blockbuster for one night only!
Steven Spielberg's 1982 smash hit tells the heartwarming story of the special bond 10-year-old Elliot (Henry Thomas) forges
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35mm presentation - The Justice Department enlists special-effects wizard Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) for the most elaborate assignment of his lifetime -- to fake the murder of a high-profile mobster (Jerry Orbach) who's about to enter the witness protection program. But Tyler's hoax turns fri
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35mm presentation - Four attractive girls (Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie from The Runaways among them) growing up in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley in the late 1970s have more than their fair share of trouble and misadventure in this debut film from director Adrian Lyne. Regarded as a minor
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This is a 21+ event!
Sunday, June 10th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
10pm Screening - 9:30pm Drink Specials
DANCE PARTY - Before, After and During the Screening!
Official Kick Off Party for Westword Music Showcase presented by The Watching Hour
Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-
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35mm presentation - One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan's prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the Katakuris is a gleefully morbid musical comedy about a family of oddballs who open an inn in the mountains. Unfortunately, through no fault of their own,
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35mm presentation - In this uncommon sci-fi comedy produced by George Lucas, a cigar-chomping extraterrestrial duck named Howard (voiced by Chip Zien) is accidentally beamed to Earth by a physicist (Jeffrey Jones) and his assistant (Tim Robbins), only to find love with a pretty punk-rock sing
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35mm presentation - An occupying Japanese general (Hiroyuki Ikeuchi) challenges Chinese men to duels so he can prove the superiority of the Japanese. Ip Man (Donnie Yen) -- a Chinese martial arts master forced to work in the mines -- refuses to fight, but can resist for only so long. Revisit
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35mm presentation - Maggie Cheung, acting out her own role as one of the greatest stars of Asian cinema, comes to Paris to portray Irma Vep (the character created by Musidora) in a remake of the famous series Vampires directed by Louis Feuillade between 1915 and 1916. She does not speak a wor
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Preceded by a totally "Jerkin'" Pop Pajama Party starting at 8:30pm! FREE Pizza! Drink Specials! And all the Spears/Timberlake/Aguilera/NSYNC/Backstreet your ears and eyes can handle!
10th Anniversary 35mm presentation! - Released in 2001 to cash in on the comic-to-screen blockbusters
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HD Digital presentation - Petty thief Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) gets caught up in a murder investigation by posing as an actor and heading to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition, where he finds an authentic acting coach in detective Perry Van Shrike (Val Kilmer). But the bright ligh
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Screens Wednesday, March 6th at 9:45pm as part of our VENGEANCE IS HIS Tribute to Park Chan-Wook AND in our Women + Film Voices Film Festival!
Digital presentation - After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is i
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35mm presentation containing scenes not included in its original release! - Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remai
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Screens Tuesday, March 5th at 9:45pm as part of our VENGEANCE IS HIS Tribute to Park Chan-Wook!
Digital presentation - Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private “prison” for 15
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Digital presentation - In this blood-spattered thriller set in the Pacific Northwest, Lindsay Pulsipher plays a strange young woman who goes on the road to leave her past behind -- a seemingly aimless voyage that brings her into contact with others as odd as herself. Lynne Compton and Matt Ol
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Friday, April 8 at 10pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Special prizes for best Pootie and Biggie Shorty get-ups and a special belt thwacking competition!
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35mm Presentation - It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town! When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari (Onni Tommila) and his
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35mm presentation - Lacking role models and a purpose, baby-faced delinquent Otto (Emilio Estevez) finds a code of honor and a higher calling when he hooks up with a band of contemporary "knights": the repo men. A "seasoned" auto repossessor (Harry Dean Stanton) shows Otto the ropes, and whe
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Actor Brian "Scuz" Peck IN-PERSON Saturday with the writer/producer of the new ROTLD Documentary MORE BRAINS THommy Hutson IN-PERSON as well! Receive a ticket discount if you pre-purchase a DVD copy of the doc and get it signed by Brian and Thommy (pick up DVD at the screening)
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35mm presentation - In Paul Verhoeven's landmark sci-fi thriller, the monolithic corporation controlling a futuristic, crime-riddled Detroit transforms a dead cop (Peter Weller) into a cybernetic law-enforcement unit called RoboCop -- and soon the streets are safe. But as Robo cleans up the c
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Digital presentation - Jolly St. Nick gets a dark makeover in this gorefest as Niklas, a sinister medieval cleric who returns to the snowy streets of Amsterdam to avenge his death by killing innocent kids. Now a lad named Frank and a disgraced cop must stop the rampage.
Trailer is dubb
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Digital presentation - Based on a true story that happened in the late 40’s in a small village in uruguay. Filmed in one single continuous shot of seventy eight minutes, “La Casa Muda” focuses on Laura, who, second by second, intends to leave a house which hides an obscure secret, unharmed.
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35mm presentation - Enjoy this gooey relic of a by-gone time that most of us can't remember (and some of us are trying hard to forget!). It's about a time when disco was king and roller skates were thought to be the transportation of the future. The film tells the tale of a boy and girl caugh
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35mm presentation - From the director of the up-coming Super comes this tribute to the sci-fi B-movies of yesteryear about a small country town unprepared for the onslaught of an alien attack in the form of fast moving, leech like creatures that begin turning the residents into brainle
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FREE Brownie with every ticket purchased! Buy a bunch and share them with your buds!
35mm presentation - Imagine one of the fast paced, thrilling segments of Run Lola Run but if the heroine was stoned and you have Gregg Araki’s new comedy starring hilarious ingénue Anna Faris
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Screens Monday, March 4th at 9:45pm as part of our VENGEANCE IS HIS Tribute to Park Chan-Wook!
Digital presentation - Unable to afford proper care for his sister dying from kidney failure, Ryu (Shin Ha-kyun - Lady Vengeance, JSA, Save The Green Planet) turns to the black market
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35mm presentation - In the year 2033, a comet has turned Earth into a rainless wasteland, and a mega-corporation controls all of the remaining water. In an attempt to end the evil reign of the company's CEO (Malcolm McDowell), Rebecca (Lori Petty) and her shy friend (Naomi Watts) hijack a sto
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35mm presentation - A sequel to the sci-fi action thriller that made him and star Arnold Schwarzenegger A-list Hollywood names, writer/director James Cameron upped the ante with this follow-up by employing a more sweeping storyline and cutting-edge special effects. Linda Hamilton returns as
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Screens Friday, October 14th at 10pm as part of The Watching Hour!
Original Production Manager Robert Latham Brown IN-PERSON to introduce the film and talk about his experience making THE THING! In partnership with Regis University
35mm presentation - Scientists working in Antarctica
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HD Digital presentation - Some girls are simply not to be messed with. And so it is with the fabulous heroines Bubbles Cliquot (Krystal Summers), Tipper Sommore (Jenna Skyy), Rachel Slurr (Willam Belli) and Emma Grashun (Erica Andrews). All respect is given to them in Pinky La'Trimm's (Kelexi
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35mm presentation - This animated tale tells the unlikely story of three misfit roommates -- Gin (a former professional cyclist), Hana (a transvestite) and Miyuki (a young runaway) -- who find an abandoned baby in a dumpster on Christmas Eve. The wacky group then heads to the big city in sear
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35mm presentation - Hick handymen Val McKee (Kevin Bacon) and Earl Bassett (Fred Ward) can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite am admonition from a shapely seismology coed (Finn Carter) who's picking up odd readings on her equipm
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35mm presentation - Television executive R.J. Fletcher (Kevin McCarthy) tries to sabotage the wild success of a rival low-rent, wacky station run by slovenly dreamer George Newman (Weird Al Yankovic) and Bob (David Bowe) -- leading to a telethon showdown. Only George's on-air local misfits ca
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Digital presentation - The Weird World of Blowfly tells the story of Clarence Reid, a Miami musician who wrote and produced romantic and spiritual songs for some of the greatest Southern soul and R&B acts of the 1960s and ’70s. He is also the gonzo performer Blowfly, Clarence’s freaky alter e
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35mm presentation - If you ask watching Hour curator Keith Garcia what his favorite movie in the world is he's gonna tell you this one (in fact you can read a piece he wrote on it right HERE)
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Archival 35mm presentation - Corey Woods (Fred Savage) breaks his emotionally troubled brother, Jimmy (Luke Edwards), out of an institution and they head for California. On the way, Corey realizes that Jimmy's a world-class video gamer, and a girl (Jenny Lewis) they meet on the road leads the
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Special Presentation Thursday, May 12th at 7pm - Director Kurt Norton In-Person!
Post film Q&A moderated by Howie Movshovitz
Digital presentation - What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed "cul
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Monday, April 18th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Subjects from the film in-person for a Q&A with the filmmakers following the screening.
Digital presentation - The shootings at Columbine High School on April 20th 1999 ended thirteen lives and shattered countless others. But
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Screens Thursday, October 27th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Admission is FREE and tickets are available at the theatre Box Office!
Digital presentation - Join us for a special screening of “Making Monsters” Ep. 101 & 103. Meet the stars from Distortions Unlimited, Ed and M
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter engagement must end July 28th
Shows at 2:30 and 5:00 are DUBBED in English
Shows at 7:30 and 9:40 are in JAPANESE with English Subtitles
Digital presentation - In a town surrounded by quicksand, an outlaw from Vash the Stampede's past has resurfaced after
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Exclusive Engagement Screens must end July 28 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - The government says there's nothing to worry about—it's just a problem with bears making trouble in the mountains and forests of Norway. But local hunters don't believe it, and neither do
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B-Side to STOP MAKING SENSE at Red Rocks - Screens Wed, Aug 17 - Sun, Aug 21 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - Talking Heads front man David Byrne co-wrote, composed, directed and stars in this quirky musical journey into the odder side of small-town America. The res
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter engagement screens through October 30th
35mm presentation - TUCKER & DALE VS EVIL is a hilariously gory, good-spirited horror comedy, doing for killer rednecks what Shaun of the Dead did for zombies. Tucker and Dale are two best friends on vacation at their
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Discussion with filmmaker Dawn Engle, co-founder of PeaceJam, after the film.
Followed by a Cash Bar Reception in the Henderson Lounge
What do the Maya really say about 2012? Is the world going to end on December 21, 2012? Learn more from the most famous Maya in the world, 1992 Nobel Peace
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Digital presentation - This film tells the powerful story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally-grown, sustainably farmed food in a city cut off from real food and limited to fast food stocked with processed food from thousands of miles away
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Digital presentation - Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the planet, literally vanishing from their hives.
Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples, broccoli, watermelon, onions, che
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MUST END Thursday, January 13th!
35mm Presentation - Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physic
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Saturday September 24, 2011, 2pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
Post-screening discussion to follow with architect and historian Alan Hess. Tickets $12 public/$10 members. Continuing education credit available to AIA members.
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Introduced by Caz Matthews.
Q&A to follow the film led by Author and co-founder of Dalit Freedom Network Nanci Ricks
“If you’re shy, you’ll die.” This is just one of the catchy aphorisms uttered by the formidable Sampat Pal Devi, leader of the Gulabi Gang (a.k.a. the “Pink Gang”), the centr
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Director Beth Davenport in-person.
Introduced by Academy Award-winner Donna Dewey.
In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo. In a country where ethnic violence has created seemingly irreparable rifts among Tuts
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DIRECTOR ESTHER B. ROBINSON IN-PERSON
A Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and The Warhol Factory is director Esther Robinson's personal inquiry into the truth behind her Uncle Danny Williams' mysterious 1966 disappearance. Virtually unknown today, Danny was Andy Warhol's lover, and a
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Basquiat tells the story of the meteoric rise of youthful artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Starting out as a street artist, living in Thompkins Square Park in a cardboard box, Jean-Michel is "discovered" by Andy Warhol's art world and becomes a star. But success has a high price, and Basquiat pays with
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In 1965, Edie Sedgwick, the beautiful and wealthy young party girl drops out of Harvard and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And, like a supernova, she explodes on the New Yo
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Special Presentation Saturday, October 8th at 8:30pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Warlock Pinchers and members of Eyeosaur In-Person!
*Photo above credited to Tom Murphy*
Digital presentation - In the late 1980's, Warlock Pinchers assaulted Denver with their rowdy antics, noisy
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Digital presentation - The old cliché about a hard-working dad who brings home the bacon gets a disturbing new twist in Mexican director Jorge Michel Grau’s slow boil of a first feature.
It begins with the death of an older, nondescript gentleman in a busy public walkway; after cleaning u
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MUST END December 8th at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS epidemic as well as the broad poli
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Exclusive Denver FilmCenter Engagement Screens Through Oct 30
35mm presentation - A delicate and daring drama directed by Andrew Haigh and featuring breakout performances by Tom Cullen and Chris New, WEEKEND follows Russell (Cullen) who, after randomly picking up an artist Glen (New)
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35mm presentation - 50th Anniversary! Winner of 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, this classic musical set among the tenements of New York City finds star-crossed lovers Maria (Natalie Wood) and Tony (Richard Beymer) caught in the midst of a turf war between rival street gangs. The mo
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Special Presentation Monday, April 11th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Shelley Rogers IN-PERSON!
Digital presentation - Organic farming has evolved from a grassroots movement into a multi-billion dollar international industry. As a result, people are asking: Is the
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One Night Only! Thursday, June 2nd at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - WHO TOOK THE BOMP? LE TIGRE ON TOUR follows iconic feminist electronic band Le Tigre on their 2004-2005 international tour across four continents and through ten countries. Supported by a
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MUST END March 17 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
35mm Presentation - Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, this tense, naturalistic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence, The Burning Plain) as she confront
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Special Women + Film preview with Director Duane Baughman IN-PERSON!
Digital presentation - A recent Sundance world premiere, Bhutto tells the epic story of one of the most fascinating characters of our time — Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history to lead a Muslim nation. A favor
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Plays Friday, April 29th at 7pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Director Larysa Kondracki in-person for Q&A and reception to follow
Inspired by actual events, Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expecta
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Exclusive Engagement MUST END June 30 at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax
Digital presentation - An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and
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Special Advance Showing Thursday, December 1st at 7pm in honor of World AIDS Day
Exclusive Engagement continues Dec 2nd - 8th.
Sponsored by Belvedere to raise awareness for the Global AIDS Fund. Special ticket price
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THE YOUNG FILMMAKERS WORKSHOP at the 34th Starz Denver Film Festival
October 25th-November 8th, 2011 (Tuesdays-Thursdays)
Taught by Scott Kinnamon
Tuition: $450
Ages 14-19
We invite you to join our three week after-school film education workshop for teenage filmmakers interested in ex
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The YFW Introductory Workshop is a two-week filmmaking program for aspiring filmmakers as well as students with strong interest in the art of filmmaking. Mondays through Fridays, June 27-July 8,2011.
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The YFW Masters Class is a two-week, intensive filmmaking program for young filmmakers who already have experience in the process of filmmaking. Mondays to Fridays, August 1-12, 2011.
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