Joined at the hip and in the editing room, the peerless co-writer/directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have been called “the Lennon and McCartney of British cinema” because they brought artistic striving and a daring spirit of invention to every film they made together — even the most commercial projects…
My pooches are complete slackers. Recently, I discovered that Nina and Maddie are stubbornly failing to live up to their potential. If I were one of those dogs-as- surrogates-for-children women, I’d think I was a terrible parent — that I obviously hadn’t done enough to ensure their future success and…
Thursday, January 13 The mid-twentieth-century English directorial team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger created such black-and-white classics as A Matter of Life and Death, with David Niven as a marooned pilot on trial in heaven for the right to a second chance on earth. The visionary filmmakers left behind…
Three things you never want to hear coming from the stage at a local battle-of-the-bands contest (but invariably do): 1. “Hello, Denver!” 2. “Let’s make some noise!” 3. “Are you ready to rock?” Although these sayings should be reserved for cheesy ’80s hair bands and Spinal Tap, their longevity attests…
Five Green Boxes was an anomaly in the local retail world when it opened five years ago on South Pearl Street — part eclectic design emporium, part craft store, part boutique, all stretching out across a vast, color-flooded floor. It was so fun and homey, you half expected customers to…
WED, 1/12 There’s nothing more American than an RV. Think about it: Here’s a car that’s literally as big as a house, equipped to the nines with every sort of modern amenity you can think of, a brazen gas-guzzler ready to tear giant swaths of land apart, highway by scenic…
THURS, 1/13 Ever since Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party — an installation of table settings celebrating female figures of cultural and historic importance — was first viewed by the public in 1979, it’s been an undying symbol of feminism. But while the five-year collaboration of hundreds of artisans and assistants…
SAT, 1/15 Chip Walton’s Curious Theatre Company is starting the year in the highest of style, with Edward Albee on its platter. The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a witty comic drama that’s also a deadpan shocker: It’s about a middle-aged architect who announces to his family that’s he’s…
The dead of winter is either the best or the worst time to see art shows filled with heavy psychological content. The best because it’s the time of year to go inside and to turn inward; the worst because being inside and turning inward might make you depressed — and…
Now Showing Better Times, et al. Contemporary painter Evan Colbert has been successfully riffing on minimalism, pop art and conceptualism for the last several years — and he’s not about to stop now. Among his most interesting pieces are those in which he creates a color field based on paint…
ENCORE Always…Patsy Cline. Always…Patsy Cline is a light, mildly entertaining evening. You get an efficiently evocative set that’s divided into three parts: a down-home apartment; an old-fashioned country bar, complete with jukebox; and, in the center, the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. There are two skilled singer-performers, one of…
lint Eastwood began digging into the third act of his career — the one that reveals the mature, deep-thinking artistŠwith a little jazz piano on the side — a dozen years ago, with the discomfiting anti-Western Unforgiven. Since then, he’s hardly come up for air or given himself a break…
At first glance, White Noise looks like one more supernatural thriller aimed at an audience that’s easily scared and easily parted from its hard-earned cash. It will be lumped in among the Rings, Grudges, Otherses and other gotcha creepshows inhabited by rancorous ghosts and pissed-off ghouls out to off those…
The early reviews for Beyond the Sea, the Bobby Darin biopic on which Kevin Spacey did everything except feed the crew and sweep the set, have been so hateful that a latecomer to the bashing bash is tempted to head straight for the spiked eggnog and let the man pass…
Thursday, January 6 While most people enjoy winter in Colorado by heading up to the mountains to ski, snowboard or embark on a trek through the snowy woods, others get into the season via pontoon boats, sailboats or schooners. Whatever vessel tickles your winter fancy, you’ll probably find it at…
“This exhibit captures the power of photography,” comments Hal Gould, owner of Camera Obscura Gallery, about the gallery’s newest show, Live With History: Photography From The New York Times Photo Archives, which opens Friday, January 7. “It shows all that photography can do — how it can capture that moment,…
You can teach an old dogie new tricks. Next year the city will celebrate its hundredth National Western Stock Show, Rodeo and Horse Show, but Denver’s annual cowboy extravaganza is already preparing for the future. In addition to the 23 standard rodeo performances, and the Mexican rodeos presented by Gerardo…
Babylon offers a Zen opening FRI 1/7 Ear plugs, steel piercings and the brightly colored tattooed koi swimming through Hindu symbols that completely encircle his right arm make Arthur Williams a very unlikely looking florist. But this is Babylon, a place of unexpected beauty and design. The full-service floral shop…
AND 1 breaks out the ballers FRI 1/7 Since its inception, AND 1, to use the parlance of the times, has kept it real. Throughout its transformation from fledgling basketball-footwear and apparel company to full-blown retailer, AND 1 has never lost sight of its focus: championing a rugged style of…
Lindsey Kuhn prints works that rock FRI 1/7 Lindsey Kuhn knows rock and roll because he puts a face on it. For more than a decade, the Denver-dwelling silk-screener has pressed posters for everyone from Public Enemy and Beck to Motrhead and Johnny Cash. Kuhn is often credited with helping…
Love conquers all in a doomsday drama THURS 1/6 A new plague is sweeping the country, and it threatens to destroy the human race. As people flee from the cities, an abandoned drive-in movie theater in the desert becomes an oasis for a ragtag group of strangers who must choose…
Back in November, Kate Thompson, director of William Havu Gallery, got an unusual phone call from Darren Howelton, a producer for ABC’s hit reality show Extreme Makeover — Home Edition. The L.A.-based executive was doing advance work for an episode of the program that would soon be taping in Arvada…
