From world-famous beer festivals to superior haunted houses and zombie crawls, this city lives for fall. This week, get to know the Riverside Cemetery during a creepy photo shoot, catch Dracula the ballet (which somehow might make it more creepy), pay homage to George A. Romero, the horror-film king himself,…
With its cast of Kate Winslet and Idris Elba, its original non-franchise source material, its adult concerns and utter lack of superheroics, Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us stands as the kind of movie that grown-ups I know often say they wish the studios would make — and then tend…
First produced in 1970, Company feels somewhat of its time, but this Aurora Fox production is still a joyous, evening-long blast of music and talent.
Looking for comedy in Denver? From Jay Leno to Ron Funches, these are the best shows coming up this month.
A whole person with innumerable grassroots interests, Genevieve Waller dips her focus head-on into several scenes at once: as an analog cameraless photographer, a queer historian, a DJ for Radio 1190’s “The Violet Hour,” a silent-film aficionado with the Denver Silent Film Festival, and an installation and performance artist with the Secret Love art collective (and on her own).
We don’t actually see that many books in Ex Libris, Frederick Wiseman’s massive new film about the New York Public Library. “People think that [libraries are] just storage spaces for books,” one administrator observes, when in reality they’re “about people [who] want to get knowledge to them.” That’s a central…
The scenes that sting and linger in the uncommonly thoughtful and engrossing war drama The King’s Choice are not its scenes of combat. They’re of efforts to stave off combat, of politicians and royalty trying to work out a deal to maintain neutrality, of parliaments dissolving and the radio blaring…
The story goes that the stretch of snowy landscape at the end of the original cut of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner was actually B-roll from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, slapped on by Scott at the last minute to help deliver the more upbeat ending his studio requested. Those final moments…
As October begins, Denver is rife with fun and free things to do,
The kneeling controversy has become political theater, and now some actual actors are joining in. But not every reader is applauding.
With October come many reasons to dress up, from fall weather to Halloween festivities. As a result, the month is filled with fashion tricks and treats ranging from glamorous ghouls to gorgeous girls. Here are the top ten fashion events in Denver in October 2017.
Sheila Schroeder and Project DU FILM bring University of Denver alumni who work in the film industry and students together to make and distribute socially conscious movies.
Ahead of the film’s premier today, September 29, we spoke via email with Colorado College professor David Hendrickson about his experience lending his home to Our Souls at Night filmmakers for two months.
Out of the eighty-two feature films at Fantastic Fest this year, eleven were directed by women, and four of those were co-directed by a man. For the slow in math, that means women directed only about 13 percent, which is pretty dismal, though on par with Cannes and 8 percent…
iIf there’s one thing the Japanese genre filmmakers whose work turns up at U.S. festivals tend to nail, it’s masterfully creating a sense of inescapable existentialist dread. At this year’s Fantastic Fest, two films bummed me out beautifully — a nice distraction from the ugly bum-out of the all the…
In 2015, Cindy Gamel launched mixedupgifts.com, an e-commerce site selling gift baskets inspired by songs and bands. Now, she’s opening up a South Broadway storefront.
If I could sum up my experience this week at the Austin-based genre film festival Fantastic Fest in a word, it would be “exhausting.” In years past, that complete physical and mental breakdown might come mostly from the mind-blowing cinema and rowdy events of the festival, but now it is…
Looking for fun on the cheap? Here are ten things to do in Denver for $10 and under, six of which are free.
It’s time for some serious Colorado family fun with Autumn campfires, festivals, harvest feasts and bugs galore!
Mysticism, nature and personal politics mingle freely in Denver artist Katy Zimmerman’s organic work, rendered in a constellation of mediums while hurtling through a dimensional space-time continuum.
Sarah Mondale’s latest film, Backpack Full of Cash, which premiered late last year, takes viewers inside public school systems on the east coast to examine how the pivot toward “school choice” initiatives like charter schools and voucher programs impact the education system as a whole.
Denver Film Society has joined four theaters in filing an anti-trust lawsuit against Landmark Theatres.
