The opening credits insist Kill Bill: Volume 1 is “Quentin Tarantino’s 4th film,” when it’s actually his 3.5th; it’s too incomplete to be measured as a whole; it’s really half a movie waiting for a proper ending, which is due to arrive in the next volume in February 2004. Until…
In case the stunning French documentary Winged Migration somehow flew right by you during its long and fruitful run at the Mayan, you can still catch it on the giant IMAX screen at United Artists’ Colorado Center, I-25 and Colorado Boulevard. Shooting over three years on all seven continents, director…
Join Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their harrowing journey past the majestic peaks of the Bitterroot Mountains to the roaring rapids of the Columbia River in Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West, a new film opening this week at the Phipps IMAX Theater in the Denver Museum of Nature…
Thursday, October 9 Author, musician and Jill-of-all-trades Jennie Shortridge has a bit of Denver and the foothills in her past, a fact that comes into play in her new novel, Riding With the Queen, the story of a weary rock singer who forsakes the road to return to the metro…
This year’s Starz Denver International Film Festival, which opens Thursday, October 9, with the new Anthony Hopkins-Nicole Kidman drama, The Human Stain, and runs through Sunday, October 19, will feature more than 130 films and dozens of in-person appearances by notable actors and directors. The most buzzworthy event, booked at…
SUN, 10/12 Kite-maker Jane Parker-Ambrose was really too busy to take on another project, but in 1985, after sailing one of her custom flyers in Red Square with the Soviet Women’s Peace Community, Parker-Ambrose was moved to use her kites for an even higher purpose. “The kite has its own…
SUN, 10/12 Photographer/adventurer Gordon Wiltsie, who loves mountains, is deeply conflicted by his own part in exposing the wilderness to the masses. The fifty-year-old Montana resident, whose work has appeared in National Geographic and other publications, says the high country has an “almost spiritual pull” on him that he finds…
SAT, 10/11 Kids in Longmont don’t ask for much, but a lot of teens in that town are happy to have a place like Club Breakdown to go to on weekends instead of hanging out on the street. Artist Gamma Acosta, now 23, used to feel that way, although the…
SAT, 10/11 Why would a stock-car designer ever concern himself with a bustle? What in the world would a welder know about hemlines? The answers reveal themselves tonight at Body Packaging III: Identity Crisis, presented by the Pikes Peak Arts Council and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. The avant-garde…
THURS, 10/9 Lewis Black and Dave Attell seem about as hard to contact these days as folks on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Still, even in the middle of a fifty-plus-city tour, Attell manages to find time to expound on the joys of hitting the road for Comedy Central Live Starring…
It occurs to me that the art world is akin to a light switch. Not the on-and-off type (the art world is always on) but one of those dimmer switches. Metaphorically speaking, at times the lights in the galleries have been turned down to a flicker; at other times, they’ve…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy only recently took over as director of the Andenken Gallery (2110 Market Street, 303-292-3281), but she’s already making a splash with her first effort, the tasty group show Luscious that’s now on display. There’s a back story to Luscious: A good deal of the exhibit — the…
I would like to say things were otherwise, really I would. I would like to find all kinds of nuance and dozens of brilliantly esoteric references in the LIDA Project’s production of Jean Genet’s The Balcony. I’d like to have been titillated, frightened or inspired, because it is, after all,…
In Elevator, the first of Buntport Theater’s two original one-acts presented under the title Misc. , three people stand in an elevator, pretty much unmoving. We’re treated to several silent minutes, during which we study the actors’ expressions. A fourth person gets into the elevator, then gets off. There’s a…
The blood-spattered French thriller Demonlover offers about as blunt an indictment of international business culture as you’ll see in any movie. With a dedication that borders on mania, writer-director Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Les Destinees) attacks what he sees as the greed, ruthless ambition and Byzantine chicanery lurking behind high-powered…
It seems like everybody’s raving up Mexican cinema these days — either as a merit badge of self-conscious hipness or because the stuff is impressive, and sometimes both — but the excitement is definitely merited with Herod’s Law (La Ley de Herodes). This movie kicks the feisty Y Tu Mam´…
In the Starz FilmCenter’s “Language of Film” series, which starts on Tuesday, October 7, Denver filmmaker Alexandre Philippe will examine three great films from a storyteller’s point of view, deconstructing narrative to reveal what he calls the movies’ “hidden anatomy.” Certainly, he will have superb material to work with. On…
A good mystery series has to fit like a well-worn glove. It’s that utilitarian undertone of familiarity that sucks the most loyal readers in — that sense of time, place and enduring character that pulls all the plots together again and again. Once you really know Philip Marlowe or Spencer…
Thursday, October 2 Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was a groundbreaker in every sense of the word during her tenure under President Clinton, not only as the first woman to serve in her office, but as an integral peacemaker in Kosovo and the Middle East. Now her accomplishments…
Denver is abuzz in anticipation of the arrival of El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips Collection, with its romantic images, impressionist wonders and strong cubist portrayals. Opening this Saturday at the Denver Art Museum, El Greco to Picasso consists of 53 world-famous paintings and sculptures. “I don’t think we’ve…
WED, 10/8 Captain Jack Sparrow may still be sailing the seven seas in search of lost fortune, but plenty of bona fide booty can be found at tonight’s Erotica Aquatica Fashion Show at the Boulder Theater. Designers and boutiques including Buffalo Exchange, Tricia Russell, Common Era, Fascinations and the Ritz…
WED, 10/8 Tina Basich, one of the world’s first professional female snowboarders, chronicles her pioneering life in Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer. Basich, whose unconventional family once lived in a tepee on the front lawn, became a pro boarder at seventeen “because it was…
