One year, back in the early 1990s, an uncle of mine didn’t show up to our family Christmas. I was only 10 and didn’t understand his sudden departure and why nobody would speak of it. A year later, I was at his funeral. He was a playwright and actor in…
Over six episodes crafted with the rich complexity of the novel, “celebrated murderess” Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), tells her own story, Scheherazade-style, to a doctor (Edward Holcroft) with the power to arrange for her pardon
With Las (H)adas at the Museo de las Americas, Maruca Salazar has given Latina artists the attention they’ve always deserved.
If you’re new to Denver, you don’t want to miss these traditional fall/winter events. If you’ve been around a while, take a second (or third, or fourth) look; some things just get better with age.
For Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey, the November 8 screening of Ramen Heads is an opportunity to learn from a miscalculation he made last year.
Denver Arts Week continues through November 11, adding to the already abundant number of entertaining options around town. The calendar is overflowing with opportunities to see films, catch art shows and eat cereal; here are the 21 best events this week, in chronological order.
Ruben Ostlund’s The Square, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this past May, probably says more about the times we’re living in than any other film you’re likely to see this year. And yet the beauty of the movie is that everybody will have their own ideas about what,…
“I wish I could live through something,” the title character laments to her mother in the opening scene of writer/director Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. Played with comical intensity by Saoirse Ronan, 17-year-old Lady Bird — née Christine — is too young to realize that she is inescapably living through something,…
Playwright Michael Yates Crowley mingles sensitivity, myth and outright cartoonishness in his exploration of rape — a topic that’s been receiving a lot of attention lately — in The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias, now receiving its regional premiere from Local Theater Company.
Svper Ordinary partners Bryan Cavanaugh, Tran Wills and Josh Wills officially closed the book on Svper Ordinary on November 6, but not without a real sense of accomplishment. “We really did take it to another level as an art/design retail concept,” Tran notes. “We did a lot in those four years, promoting different makers and artists. For a lot of them, those were their first shows.”
Diane Kruger, who was named Best Actress at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for her work throughout In the Fade, “plays a German woman who’s married to a Turkish man,” Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey goes on. “One day, she’s dropping their son at their office, and as she’s leaving later that day, a bomb goes off and it kills her husband and their little boy.”
The fortieth annual Denver Film Festival got off to a fine start with Lady Bird, an opening night flick well worth discovering. Since then, the event’s attendance has been impressive despite a lack of star power on par with Emma Stone’s appearance for La La Land last year and the mixed quality of the six movies I caught during the fest’s first weekend. Note that a Q&A with costar Kyra Sedgwick on November 3 barely mentioned Submission, the DFF’s centerpiece presentation at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House for which she was ostensibly on-hand, and no one seemed to care.
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, BPM (Beats Per Minute), French director Robin Campillo’s stylized, moving drama of AIDS activism and love, sometimes feels like several films at once. It follows the activities of ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s, and for much…
Jane arrives in theaters on October 20 On Sept. 11, 2001, renowned primatologist and environmental advocate Jane Goodall was in New York on business. She had planned to catch a flight out to visit a high school to give a talk on how we can find a reason to hope…
For decades, Sylvia Montero has told the stories of her Colorado Chicano culture from an urban woman’s perspective, picking up a Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute grant and national recognition along the way. She’s done this quietly, all the while serving her community as a teacher and visiting artist, and growing as as an artist by mixing media and developing new techniques.
From what little we’re given of Kurt in the trailers, Gibson seems to be playing a caricature of his own darker side, a tiresomely inappropriate, unapologetic button-pusher
These five free events should light up the workweek beginning November 6, until the next weekend brightens things up.
As everyone in Denver tries to re-set their internal clocks (thanks, Daylight Savings Time!), the calendar includes plenty to lit events to illuminate these darker evenings and keep those bleary eyes open for just a few more pages. Here are six of the best.
“Thelma is a film from Norway that’s actually the country’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film,” says Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey. “It’s an interesting film of the type that you don’t necessarily find in film festivals all that often. It’s sort of a supernatural, paranormal thriller, but a really intriguing one.”
Yes, it’s hard to imagine wanting to watch 11/8/16 today. The film, a sweeping survey documentary created and produced by Jeff Deutchman, follows 16 Americans from across the country on election day of 2016: a Sikh New York cabdriver, a “Dreamer” in San Jose, a Massachusetts dad in a MAGA…
Breakin’ Convention 2017 isn’t the first time the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has filled the Galleria with hip-hop dancers. Back in 1984, Break for Summer brought thousands of fans into the complex to cheer on hometown crews.
Just in time to commence Denver Arts Week, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting the world’s largest traveling hip-hop festival, Breakin’ Convention, the last stop on the renowned production’s United States tour.
