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When it comes to the Oscars, I'm usually at a loss for the nominees for Best Foreign Language Film.

It's not much of a surprise since the award is often used to help launch flicks in funny languages for us ignorant Americans (note the scathing sarcasm here, since I know there are plenty of us willing to read our films).

This year there's serious buzz building around Waltz with Bashir, an Israeli entry that is now trickling out here stateside.

I finally found a trailer for the movie, and frankly it looks like it could be amazing. An striking animated look at the price war can take on an individual, the tease alone has a fresh vibrancy that has me excited to see it whenever it meanders its way here to Denver.



It's fantastic that this is clearly not your warm and fuzzy Pixar.

It just goes to show that with a little imagination, animation is clearly a very relevant medium for movie lovers of all ages.

What if a spaceship landed on your head while you befriended a cockroach?

It might look something like this:




Pay attention to the amazing level of detail in this trailer. If this tease is any indication, it looks like the animation wizards at Pixar are raising the bar again.

Wall-E ain't just cute, he's in a world all his own.

Do we really have to wait until June to find out where in the universe Pixar is sending him?

I cannot wait!

Don't you just want to pinch his cheek, if he had one?

Movies come home to Colfax

I remember going to the Ogden Theater as kid, in it's waning days as a movie house.

Well before the era of home entertainment, my family drove down to Colfax Avenue here in Denver to catch a matinee of Gulliver's Travels in it's technicolor animated glory.



To this day, even when thinking of the more sordid reputation Colfax has deservedly earned over the years, I always remember that afternoon fondly.

I bring this up because it looks like movies will be screening full-time on Colfax again, perhaps as soon as this weekend.

It seems I wasn't too far off the mark last week when I wrote about the Neighborhood Flix theater over at the new Tattered Cover complex.

A glitch with an image here on the blog led me back to their website today, and lo-and-behold, it has transformed. There are now movie listings and menus where there were just conceptual drawings last week.

Colfax has a new movie palace.

I can't wait to have some popcorn there. It brings back fond memories of the old one down the street.