Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Universal Studios) Alfred Hitchcock may be the best pop filmmaker in our history, and this gorgeous 14-film set is certainly worthy of the master. Licensing issues kept it from being as “definitive’ as the box claims — missing, most notably, are Hitchcock’s classic Cary Grant…
The Amityville Horror: Special Edition (Columbia/Tristar) Beyond the Gates of Splendor (Fox) The Black Keys Live (Fat Possum) Christmas With SCTV (Sony Music) Count Duckula: The Complete First Season (Koch Vision) Cream: Royal Albert Hall (Warner Strategic Marketing) Drawn Together Uncensored: Season One (Paramount) The Fly and The Fly II:…
In January 2003, Carol Dickinson, then director of Foothills Art Center in Golden, went to that institution’s board of directors with an idea for a contemporary sculpture garden to commemorate her and her husband Don’s commitment to the center. After a decade of service, Dickinson was contemplating her retirement and…
Jesús Moroles is the artist of the moment following the recent unveiling of his “Granite Aspens,” the centerpiece of the brand-new Carol and Don Dickinson Sculpture Garden at Foothills Art Center in Golden (see review). To coincide with that event, Artyard Contemporary Sculpture (1251 South Pearl Street, 303-777-3219) is presenting…
Full and PLANNING.ABSTRACT. Denver painter Bruce Price is clearly Colorado’s preeminent post-minimalist, as proved by the recent batch of fabulous creations in FULL: New Paintings by Bruce Price. These paintings, though clearly a continuation of Price’s past efforts, are also completely new-looking and very different conceptually. A protegé of the…
Athol Fugard’s Master Harold and the Boys takes place in a teahouse in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, during the time of apartheid. The Master Harold of the title is a seventeen-year-old boy; during the play, his mother is manifest only as a voice on the phone, and we learn that…
Ain’t Misbehavin’. Five terrific performers and a slate of Fats Waller songs. How can you go wrong? Ain’t Misbehavin’, a jazzy, bluesy Waller showcase that brings the world of 1930s Harlem to life, is often staged in a broadly presentational style, with lots of humor, shtick, dancing and acting out,…
Ah, Wallace and Gromit. Who doesn’t get a little lift at the sound of those names? Who doesn’t feel the edges of her mouth begin to tickle toward a smile, her heart grow warmer with images of the love between a (plasticine) man and his (plasticine) dog? Perhaps you’re not…
In 2001, Jonathan Safran Foer made an astounding literary debut. “A Very Rigid Search,” published by The New Yorker, was his hilarious, heartbreaking account of an attempt by a young American man (named, cheekily, Jonathan Safran Foer) to find a Ukrainian woman who had saved his grandfather from the Nazis…
Director Curtis Hanson, a journeyman only recently bestowed with the title of Great Director, has already made his horror movie (1973’s The Arousers), his kiddie action comedy (1980’s The Little Dragons), his teen sex romp (1983’s Losin’ It ), his handful of Hitchcock riffs (1987’s The Bedroom Window, 1990’s Bad…
All the publicity for Waiting… has focused on the scene in which an annoying customer at the fictional chain restaurant ShenaniganZ sends her food back to the kitchen, where it meets with all sorts of nasty modifications, courtesy of some dandruff, pubic hair and mucus. The teaser posters depicted similarly…
One of the strongest — and sure to be controversial — films of the year, The War Within goes places that other films wouldn’t dare go. Thoughtfully written and nicely acted, it follows an Islamic suicide bomber who comes to New York City with a deadly plan. The film in…
Two years before he stunned the film world with 1972’s Last Tango in Paris, 29-year-old Bernardo Bertolucci directed The Conformist, a deeply unsettling portrait of a Fascist secret policeman (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who represses his true urges — social and sexual — in a cowardly attempt to embrace the dangerous ideological…
Jacqueline Susann’s 1966 bestseller, Valley of the Dolls, explored the price of fame, wealth and love in the duplicitous world of Hollywood excess. A trashfest rife with jealousy, plastic surgery, insanity and self-destruction, the camp classic — laughably adapted for the screen in 1967 — proved conclusively that uppers and…
Thursday, October 6 The folks at the Colorado Center for the Book will take a different tack tonight at the annual Colorado Book Awards Gala, casting an air of celebrity upon this year’s honorees with an e-town-style ceremony that re-creates the Boulder public-radio show’s successful amalgamation of music and interviews…
Fresh off a charity show in Dublin with Denis Leary, red-hot comedian Dane Cook likens his career in comedy — which has him teetering on the precipice of Seinfeld-like superstardom — to that of a ballplayer’s. “At first you’re just trying to get hits,” Cook explains. “But once you’re Mark…
Mistress Raven’s been around the block, but this time she’s hoping to stay put. The driving force behind Rave’s Oh My Goth! has moved her emporium — originally an Uptown antique- and vintage-clothing store favored by drag queens — three times, but this latest location looks like the perfect spot…
THURS, 10/6 Alcohol tends to facilitate both good and bad ideas. Bad ideas come in the form of, say, the woman in Georgia who last month assaulted an officer with a plate of chicken wings after being pulled over for drunk driving. In contrast, a good idea would be the…
SAT, 10/8 Artists and the Hells Angels have a long and storied history. In 1965, freelance journalist Hunter S. Thompson introduced Ken Kesey to a few of the Angels he was writing about at the time. The grizzly road soldiers were smitten with the wide-eyed piper and accepted his invitation…
SUN, 10/9 Taking cues from the legendary Earl Scruggs, the Czech Republic’s Druhá Tráva (which means “Second Grass”) has transformed a quintessentially American idiom into a unique synthesis of jazz, pop, folk, classical and Eastern European music. “Bluegrass has a long tradition in our country and became extremely popular in…
Robots (Fox) The story of a small-town ‘bot (voiced by Ewan McGregor) who bolts for the big city, Robots is the first non-Pixar film to compete with that studio’s razzle and dazzle. The thing’s stunning to look at, and frankly, it’s better to stare at than listen to, since listening…
Carlito’s Way: Rise to Power (Universal) American Pie: 3 Movie Pie Pack (Universal) Beethoven: The Pooch Pack (Universal) Billy Jack: The Ultimate Collection (Ventura) Blind Melon: Live at the Metro (EMI) Bouncing Souls: Live at the Glasshouse (Fontana) Britney & Kevin: Chaotic…the DVD & More (Jive) The Complete Monty Python’s…
