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Rock climber Tim Bruns appears in the film "Resistance Climbing" and also served as a producer.

The new movie 鈥楲iving鈥� is a remake of a 70-year-old masterpiece from Japan鈥檚 Akira Kurosawa about the death of a minor bureaucrat. KUNC Film Critic Howie Movshovitz said the new iteration doesn鈥檛 compare to the original.

As an actor, Sarah Polley鈥檚 films include "The Sweet Hereafter," "The Weight of Water" and "The Secret Life of Words." As a writer and director, Polley made the challenging "Stories We Tell," and now she has a new movie called "Women Talking." KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz teaches film at CU-Denver. He says that what the women talk about is disturbing and important.

The new movie 鈥楾谩r鈥� tells a story of a woman orchestra conductor riding high in that high-altitude world. It鈥檚 the first work by writer/director Todd Field since 2006, and for KUNC film critic and CU Boulder Assistant Professor, Howie Movshovitz, T谩r is as complex and unexpected as Fields鈥� earlier pictures, 鈥楲ittle Children鈥� and 鈥業n the Bedroom.鈥�

The biggest American festival of documentary film, called DOC NYC runs in New York from November 9 through November 27 with over a hundred features. But you don鈥檛 have to be in New York to see the films 鈥� the festival is also online. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, who teaches film at CU-Denver, says the festival will show some exceptional documentaries.

Italian writer and director Dario Argento is famous among horror movie lovers, but his first film in ten years, Dark Glasses, is not his best, says KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz.

The 45th Denver Film Festival opens Wednesday, Nov. 2 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 13, with a slate of 239 films, counting features and shorts. The festival has returned to an in-person/in-theaters event. Tickets are on sale and KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, who teaches film at CU-Denver, has a few suggestions.

A new documentary, called Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche looks back at a terrible event at a California ski resort. KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz says the movie gives more than an account of what happened then.

The Telluride Film Festival, which takes place each year over Labor Day weekend is unusual in several ways 鈥� its remote location, its downplaying of celebrity and its relatively short length. Film critic Howie Movshovitz, who teaches film at CU-Denver, says Telluride gives equal respect to films of the past and the present.

Friday marks the opening of the 49th Telluride Film Festival, a four-day celebration of the movie which began in 1974 in what was then a run-down old mining town and today is an international destination resort. But for KUNC film critic Howie Movshovitz, who teaches film at CU-Denver, what counts is that the festival still champions some of the finest films of the present and the past.