On Friday, March 13, the Sie FilmCenter will present a special fortieth anniversary screening of Ken Russell’s 1975 phantasmagorical musical Tommy. Based on the “rock opera” by The Who, the film was a mind scramble of an adaptation of the band’s own wild concert tour for the piece, which told the…
Improv is a particularly entertaining segment of Denver’s booming comedy scene, one in which actors working without a script play off the audience to create characters, jokes and even songs. Last year a new improv troupe joined the funny fray: Queerbots, which has a particular and fresh slant behind its mayhem…
One of the sweetest surprises to pop out of last November’s Starz Denver Film Festival was Davey B. Gravey’s Tiny Cinema, a repurposed cargo trailer that would innocently hide outside of festival events, enticing film lovers to enter its quaint and cozy confines. Inside the space you’d find four theater seats,…
Beginning March 2, Mondays will truly be a drag as Tracks Denver hosts not only a free viewing party of every new episode of Season 7, but holds its own intensive drag competition to find Denver’s Ultimate Queen. Come for RuPaul’s patented annual drama — but stay for the homegrown…
Best known for its take on New American Cuisine, sushi and an extensive list of champagnes, Epernay Lounge has spent the last two years shining in the downtown theater district as quick stop for theater goers headed to or coming form a performance at the DCPA. But now they’re expanding…
Where to brunch in Denver is always a dilemma, as would-be diners ponder questions like these: How’s the food? How’s the mimosa? How’s the space? How’s the wait staff? Can we have a conversation there? How far is it? How long is the wait? Friends can bat these questions back…
This summer, Denver will have the opportunity to tune into the television industry when a new festival, SeriesFest, makes its season-one debut here. But the organizers have a bigger goal: to turn Denver into an off-site destination for TV movers and shakers, in the same way that the Sundance Film…
Deemed the “gay Super Bowl” by its many fans, the Academy Awards telecast has long been a bastion of over-the-top queer energy rolled up in the drama of the secret, gay inner-workings of the Hollywood system. Many a gay icon has had their moment in the sun during the Oscar…
With Louis Silver’s music for The Jazz Singer in 1927, talkies ushered in a new age of recorded sound; what audiences heard when they watched a film took a bold step into completing the grand illusion of cinema. Yet even without recorded sound, the silent film era flourished with hand-crafted scores,…
When you’re different from others based on who you love, you spend a lot of time thinking about Valentine’s Day and what you’re going to do to celebrate it like a gay rock star. But if you’re still thinking about it now, you’ve waited too long — most of February…
Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and you can knock yourself out getting those dinner reservations and then finding some kind of activity that will leave you and your loved ready for zzzzzz instead of xxx by the time the night is over. Or you can put your trust in the…
For the U.S., 1968 was a sociopolitical crossroads at which a war, political schisms, activism, youth culture, style, the arts and the widening gender gap all converged. The exhibit 1968: The Year That Rocked History, which officially opens to the public on Saturday, February 7, at the History Colorado Center…
For the U.S., 1968 was a sociopolitical crossroads at which a war, political schisms, activism, youth culture, style, the arts and the widening gender gap all converged in a fast moment of change. The exhibit 1968: The Year That Rocked History, which officially opens to the public on Saturday, February…
When programming a film festival that caters to a particular segment of the population — be it black, Asian, gay, Latino, Christian or Jewish — organizers endeavor to find films that speak from many different voices to tell the group’s collective story. But they also must be careful not to…
Melissa Benoist, Littleton native and Arapahoe High grad, is flying high after being cast as the lead in the new CBS Supergirl series from executive producer Greg Berlanti (CW’s Arrow, The Flash). Benoist was already on cloud nine, having spent two seasons on Fox’s hit Glee and landing a plum…
When filmmaker/breast enthusiast Russ Meyer passed away in 2004, he left two simple statements on his gravestone: “King of the Nudies” and “I Was Glad to Do It.” Indeed, Meyer infused such joy into the taboo world of exploitation films that every one of his titles seems less like work…
The late Russ Meyer, king of the exploitation film, had an eye for the ladies, and he centered his goofy pictures on stories about bored housewives with heaving bosoms looking for satisfaction, or on buxom badass babes out to tear rotten men a new one. From snapping photos for Playboy…
One of the most rewarding film-industry moves of the last few years came when Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International partnered to release all of the Academy Award -nominated short films in theaters, so that movie fans can catch up on the nominees before the February 22 awards ceremony. Starting Friday,…
On any given night in Denver, a film lover has a wide array of movies — from mainstream fare, to art-house curiosities and even classic repertory — to choose from. Still, local filmmakers have to work hard to get their visions out into the world when they haven’t been blessed…
Filmmaker Daniel Junge, who won an Academy Award in 2012 for the documentary short Saving Face, made his official Sundance Film Festival debut yesterday with his new documentary, Being Evel. And another Colorado filmmaker, Louie Psihoyos, was back at the iconic Utah festival this past weekend with his second doc…
Italian horror film maestro Dario Argento has been freaking out audiences since he first burst on the scene in 1970 with the first in a series of Hitchcock-infused thrillers whose titles matched their stylistic terrors: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Cat o’ Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet…
Few filmmakers inspire more divergent reactions than Italian horror director Dario Argento, who started off his career in the late ’60s with Hitchcock-infused masterpieces like Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Cat o’ Nine Tails and Deep Red, and eventually descended into overdone grotesqueries like his most recent films, Dracula…
