Chihuly. For the past several years, the Denver Botanic Gardens has used its 24 acres of landscaped grounds as a setting for outdoor art exhibits. All have been popular, but none more so than Chihuly, which has attracted well over a million visitors to date. Artist Dale Chihuly, who emerged…
Garfield creator Jim Davis is well aware of the Internet’s cat obsession. In fact, he’s got an upcoming strip about it. “But if I told you the joke, I’d have to kill you,” he deadpans, before cracking his paternal composure with a chuckle. (He did tell me, and I’ve chosen…
No film festival is complete without a few sweet parties, and the Starz Denver Film Festival is no exception. If you’re only going to hit up one of those parties, make sure it’s the one with classic arcade games, DJs and an open bar, all in honor of an award…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Viva La Liberta. See also: The Ten Best Movie…
Every few years a new epidemic sweeps the nation, spreading hysteria among the masses — bird flu, swine flu, mad cow disease and this year’s contender Ebola. The more you hear about it, the more you’re scared. It makes germaphobes looks like geniuses and makes you reconsider ever getting on…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Alleluia. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events in…
At the outset of the 2014 Starz Denver Film Festival, the weather gods seemed angry. Historic low temperatures put a damper on turnout for the Opening Night screening of 5 to 7, and daylong snowfall and the lingering freeze did likewise for Saturday’s Big Night presentation of an infinitely higher…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Viktoria. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events in…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights selections for Friday, November 14 (Free Fall), Saturday, November…
We’re guessing the faces of the folks behind the Starz Denver Film Festival fell as the temperatures dropped in advance of Wednesday’s opening night at the Buell Theatre. They’d already taken a gamble by booking 5 to 7, a low key romance that’s generated relatively little buzz to date, as…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights El Critico. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events…
If the universe is infinitely finite, an entity whose mystery is knowable only through an evolving progression of theories and equations, it’s nothing compared to a marriage. Every marriage or long-term partnership is knowable only to the people inside it — and sometimes not even then. The Theory of Everything…
During a 2009 Daily Show interview with Maziar Bahari, the Canadian-Iranian journalist who had been imprisoned in Iran for 118 days on espionage charges earlier that year, Jon Stewart said, “We hear a lot about the banality of evil, but so little about the stupidity of evil.” Or about its…
Though it’s tempting to laugh at the endless stream of neologisms and cosmologies that Tumblr hath wrought, the nobility of intent is undeniable: Everyone feels the need to define and understand himself, herself or itself. (If I went through my teenage years as a happy goth, someone else has the…
Discovering and Interpreting the West. This ambitious three-part extravaganza at the Arvada Center highlights Western landscape art. The nineteenth-century examples are in the Theater Gallery, the twentieth-century pieces are on the upper level, and the 21st-century renditions — the main course — are on the lower level. All three were…
Tales of fame and its trappings — and the way they’re never enough to build a life — are as old as show business itself. Maybe for that reason, almost any story about discovering the hollowness of fame is often written off as a cliché. But what’s the difference, really,…
In the mid-1990s, self-appointed cultural gatekeepers used to wield Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s Dumb and Dumber as proof of the deterioration of film artistry. Those people hadn’t, of course, actually bothered to see the movie, and thus had no sense of its peculiar, sweet-spirited, un-toilet-trained brilliance. Times have changed, thank…
It’s a special The Daily Show edition of the Voice Film Club podcast, as we talk about Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher (starring Steve Carell) and move onto Rosewater, the movie Jon Stewart left The Daily Show for three months in 2013 to direct. Both are in theaters starting November 14. Here’s…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights three red carpet presentations — 5 to 7, The…
We seem to be obsessed with superheroes these days — but on Veterans Day, we recognize the true American heroes. Thanks to cinema, civilians have been able to get a closer look at what war is really like, with all the horrors and the heartbreaks. The best of these war…
When Australian filmmaker Richard Tuohy says he makes experimental films, he means it. He runs Nanolab, an artist-run film-processing lab where he develops 16mm and Super8 film for fellow filmmakers. In his free time, he has devoted himself to exploring hand-processing, optical illusions and even cameraless films. Tuohy does not…
Here’s a question the rest of us are lucky never to have had to think about: How many people does it take to bear away the corpse of a grown gorilla? Early in Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stunning heartbreaker of a doc, we see men, a dozen or so, carrying…
