Local production company Focus 4 Design, which has done many videos for this town’s music acts, has won two Telly Awards for its work on Global Dance Festival: The Movie. The film, which premiered at Beta Night Club in late February, follows both the production crew (conflict of interest alert:…
As she prepares for a dinner party and fields rude dismissals from her two spoiled sons, journalist Anne (Juliette Binoche) thinks back on her probing interviews for a just-filed French Elle profile of two student-prostitutes who cater to a rich “bored husband” clientele. That entering this line of work was…
At the start of Joss Whedon’s long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially dangerous glowing cube that fell to the ocean floor after Captain America (Chris Evans) liberated it from the Nazis in his movie last summer — is in the hands of NASA…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Over the weekend, director Skip Armstrong and the Carbondale-based Forge Motion Pictures crew premiered Nomad and The Mother at the 5Point Film Festival in Carbondale. The films are the first in a planned five-part web series titled Of Souls+Water, profiling five different people whose lives revolve around water; the series…
Batura, Winograde, Kunkel, Emrich. Though the current shows at Robischon are a quartet of solos — Stephen Batura, Edie Winograde, Jerry Kunkeland Gary Emrich— they actually function together as a coherent thematic group show on the topic of the New West. Batura’s masterful and monumental casein-and-acrylic paintings capture scenes from…
Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap partners and invigorate their own marriages in the bargain — for a time, at least. Boutique jeweler Rachel (Marina Foïs) is unable to resist tattooed Web designer Vincent (Nicolas Duvauchelle), so she…
There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway line, at least adds a bit of charged political reality to puncture Nicholas Stoller’s limp, hermetic comedy of deferred nuptials. Tom (Jason Segel, who co-scripted with Stoller), a talented…
Back with his first film in fourteen years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. That’s true with respect to both the singularity of his deadpan, dialogic style and his hermetic milieu. With Damsels in Distress, Stillman’s followup to 1998’s The Last Days of Disco, the urban-haute-bourgeoisie-as-endangered-species…
A twelve-year-old degenerate needs a spot for daily operations: someplace that’s secluded, where he can stash his collection of pornos and light a bunch of weird shit on fire, and no one will bother him. For my best friend Noah and me, the central vector for our troublemaking was behind…
Nick Apollo Forte, who’ll perform in Denver for the first time in two decades on Sunday, April 22, at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, is best known for playing the lounge singer Lou Canova in Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose. But Forte is much more than a singer: He started off as…
Disneynature’s latest Earth Day release hunkers down in an Ivory Coast rainforest, taming its beasts-in-the-wild raw material into a family-friendly (though not totally sugarcoated) heroes-and-villains adventure, as did the brand’s previous film, African Cats. Chimpanzee follows energetic young primate Oscar, still reliant on his mother, Isha, for food and protection…
It’s Nicholas Sparks’s world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven’t scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical salesman who’s written sixteen bestsellers since 1995, when The Notebook was plucked from the slush pile by a wily publisher. The Notebook was the third Sparks work…
I spotted a bottle of something called Marley’s Mellow Mood, “a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages,” in my neighborhood deli just a few hours after seeing Marley, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary — a reminder of just how crassly the Jamaican legend, who…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Some of our favorite local skate crews have been busy this month, dropping Spring video clips that will have you ready to take to the streets. First up… Ben Ericson and Tristan Minton’s 2012 Spring Street Trash edit (above) featuring the 303 Boards team…
Last night, Tuaca brought Corey Miller (think L.A. Ink — and if you’ve seen that show, then you know how talented he is) to Stoney’s Bar and Grill to play with his band, Powerflex 5. We caught up with Miller before the show (while he placed the finishing touches on…
Director/producer Todd Cassetty is used to working with pop sensations like Taylor Swift. He produced two Taylor Swift music videos and seven Taylor Swift TV specials — most notably, her 2010 NBC Thanksgiving Special. More recently, though Cassetty has set his sights on a culture somewhat less predictable than his…
Besides blowing the mind of everyone who ever heard it, Sgt. Pepper broke a lot of ground: The album radically expanded the concept of what pop music could be, in the process inventing the studio technology needed to make it happen. There’s probably not another person alive who can articulate…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity — its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the MPAA over an initial R rating; it was eventually edited to land a PG-13 — Lee Hirsch’s Bully is something of an outlier among awareness docs: It has a clear and…
At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is not a spoiler, not really. The real spoilers in the film are in the tricky mechanics crafted by writers Joss Whedon…
