What we’re about
Welcome, Denver Cinephiles!
Denver Cinema Club is a social group for people who love independent, foreign, and classic films. We see four or five films a week, typically at the theaters in central Denver. After watching a film, we usually go to a nearby restaurant to have a snack or drink, chat about the movie, and socialize. It's a diverse, friendly group, and everyone is welcome.
In addition to our regular outings, we also attend special events: film festivals, trivia contests, seasonal mixers, Oscar parties, free screenings, etc. Watch your Meetup calendar for these, too.
We encourage group participation: we invite members to organize events of their own, and we have a discussion board and Facebook page for any film-related topics you'd like to bring up. We also publish a monthly newsletter of club news and reviews, the Denver Cinema Club Dispatch.
We hope to see you soon!
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- The Keep (1983, Michael Mann) @ Alamo Drafthouse Sloans LakeAlamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake, Denver, CO
Alamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake is screening The Keep (1983, Michael Mann) on Wednesday, April 30, at 6:45 PM. I somehow have never seen this bizarro-sounding horror-fantasy flick from the early '80s, but I'm intrigued (especially by that creature in the movie still!)
It isn't, umm, highly rated, but if you're up for this kind of thing, please join me! I will be in the lobby starting around 6:15 PM holding a black-and-yellow Denver Cinema Club sign for meet and greet. I will head to my seat (Row 8, Seat 6) at 6:40 PM.
If at least two other attendees wish to discuss the film, we will head to Alamo's bar area, or a nearby restaurant, after the screening.
Tip: purchase your ticket ahead of time! Here's a link: https://drafthouse.com/denver/show/the-keep
DESCRIPTION
MICHAEL MANN'S FANTASY EPIC, NEWLY RESTORED.
Nazi-occupied Romania, 1941: In a small and gloomy village hidden deep in the mountains, German troops have arrived to lay siege. Although warned by the townspeople to stay out of a mysterious and ornately carved structure known only as “The Keep,” two arrogant soldiers ignore their orders and break into the obelisk, hoping to find stowed treasure, but instead unleash an ancient evil force which, with each new victim, grows stronger and more powerful. After suffering large casualties at its hands, Captain Klaus Woermann is informed that the only person who might be capable of defeating this monstrous and demonic entity is an elderly Jewish historian named Dr. Theodore Cuza, who is being held captive with his daughter in a concentration camp...
The legendary horror spectacle from director Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice), adapted from genre writer F. Paul Wilson’s New York Times best-selling novel, THE KEEP is a mesmerizing visual feast of supernatural terror enhanced by a remarkable original score by Tangerine Dream (Sorcerer) along with jaw-dropping special effects by Nick Maley (Superman, Lifeforce). Starring Scott Glenn (The Hunt for Red October), Jürgen Prochnow (David Lynch’s Dune, Das Boot), Alberta Watson (Hackers), and two-time Oscar® nominee Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings film franchise) [Vinegar Syndrome]
- JEOPARDY! Bar League Trivia - Alamo Sloans Lake - Sunday, May 4 - 4:30 PMAlamo Drafthouse Sloans Lake, Denver, CO
Join DCC for JEOPARDY! Bar League trivia at BarFly, the bar at the Sloans Lake Alamo Drafthouse. Eve will be our host this week. The contest starts at 5:00, but the group will meet at 4:30 to stake out seats, place food and/or drink orders, and strategize.
It's free to play, though--understandably--BarFly would like participants to order something. Teams can have up to six players; if more than six DCCers show up, the group will split into two teams.
Here is the web page for the game. You'll find lots of DCCers among the photos.
Eve will aim for the couches on the south side of the bar, along the windows overlooking Colfax. Look for a small Denver Cinema Club sign. Arrive early if you can, and help save seats!
- DEEP DIVE Into Eastern European Cinema Pt. 1 (War, Trauma & Political Memory)Burns family , Denver , CO
This is a “watch at home, discuss in-person” event, the first in a two-part series exploring the distinctive cinematic legacy of Eastern Europe—where history, politics, and memory often blur into myth and nightmare.
For our first discussion, we focus on three haunting works that wrestle with the psychological and moral aftermath of war and authoritarianism. From the raw immediacy of Come and See to the postwar reckoning of Ashes and Diamonds and the atmospheric dread of Twilight, these films channel trauma through striking imagery and disquieting stillness. They ask how individuals navigate the ruins of ideology, and what happens when violence becomes part of the landscape. Together, they form a somber yet essential meditation on the ghosts of 20th-century Europe.
We will meet to discuss our thoughts on Tuesday, May 6, at Burns Family Artisan Ales on South Broadway. Please try to watch all three before attending – but if you can only watch one or two, you are still welcome!
Here is the list of films with instructions on how to find them.
ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958, Andrzej Wajda – Poland)
Set in the final hours of World War II, Ashes and Diamonds follows Maciek, a young Polish resistance fighter ordered to assassinate a Communist official just as the war comes to a close. As the new political order begins to take shape, Maciek finds himself caught between duty, disillusionment, and a fleeting chance at a different life. Shot in striking black-and-white and filled with potent symbolism, Andrzej Wajda’s landmark film captures the moral ambiguity of a nation suspended between past and future. In this fractured landscape, heroism and betrayal blur, and personal longing collides with historical inevitability—echoing the larger question of how to move forward when the dust of war has barely settled.- View on Criterion Channel...
- ... or Max...
- ... or for free on Kanopy (with a public library card)...
- ... or rent from Prime Video.
COME AND SEE (1985, Elem Klimov – Belarus)
Told through the wide, terrified eyes of a Belarusian teenager, Come and See plunges the viewer into the nightmare of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe with harrowing immediacy. What begins as a boy’s eagerness to join the partisan resistance quickly descends into a surreal odyssey of devastation, as villages burn, families vanish, and innocence is methodically stripped away. Directed with unflinching intensity by Elem Klimov, the film blurs the line between realism and hallucination—its long takes and haunting sound design capturing the psychic disintegration wrought by war. More than a war film, Come and See is a reckoning—a visceral, almost mythic descent into human cruelty and the trauma.- View on Criterion Channel...
- ... or rent from YouTube...
- ... or rent from Prime Video.
TWILIGHT (1990, György Fehér – Hungary)
A retired detective arrives in a quiet mountain village, drawn into the unresolved case of a murdered child that mirrors a past investigation that still haunts him. But in Twilight, the crime itself is secondary—what unfolds is a hypnotic, slow-motion drift through foggy forests, barren fields, and the psychological murk of guilt and obsession. Shot in long, ghostly takes and co-written by Béla Tarr, György Fehér’s brooding noir resists resolution. Instead, it lingers in the liminal space between memory and forgetting, justice and futility. In the shadow of political collapse and generational silence, Twilight becomes a haunting meditation on the weight of violence and the impossibility of closure.- View on Kanopy.
