2005 Biennial BLOW OUT. This is the third in a series of biennials presented at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In the past, participation in these biennials was limited to artists from around here; for the 2005 version, it’s been expanded to include artists working in most of the Western…
Impulse Theater. Basements and comedy go together like beer and nuts or toddlers and sandboxes. The basement of the Wynkoop Brewery where Impulse Theater performs is crowded, loud and energetic. Impulse does no prepared skits, nothing but pure improv — which means that what you see changes every night, and…
“I always cannot understand why girls don’t wanna be with me for a long time,” says Timothy Treadwell, subject of the documentary Grizzly Man. “I have really a nice personality — I’m fun, I’m very very good in the…umm, well, you’re not supposed to say that when you’re a guy,…
The old John Wayne-Dean Martin hayburner The Sons of Katie Elder wasn’t a very good movie the first time around — Dino and a cowboy hat go together about as well as Sinatra and bib overalls — and John Singleton’s jokey, urbanized rehash, while not bad, isn’t likely to snow…
Pity the daily newspaper critic who must review The Aristocrats without using such phrases as “A longshoreman’s arm up a little girl’s ass,” “Then my wife goes down on my son while the dog’s licking his balls,” “My grandmother’s covered in my cum,” and “Is it shit before piss, or…
The Aristocrats may be the foulest-mouthed movie of the summer, but Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo is the foulest in deed, actually depicting some of the nigh-unspeakable acts that are merely hypothetically talked about in the former film. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a big-time gross-out comedy, and European…
“The most daring rescue mission of our time is a story that has never been told,” boasts the poster for The Great Raid. The credits of the film, however, reveal that it’s based on not one, but two books about the 6th Ranger Battalion, which ventured 30 miles into enemy…
The Skeleton Key ranks high on the list of 2005’s funniest films, bested only by the first two-thirds of The Wedding Crashers, all of The Aristocrats, and that part in Stealth where the airplane starts sassing Josh Lucas. Doubtful that was the intention of director Iain Softley (K-PAX, an inexplicably…
The disturbing French filmmaker Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) has never won any friends in America among the Focus on the Family crowd. Long obsessed with the hazards and the hidden agendas of traditional marriage, Ozon has now launched a full-frontal assault on the whole notion of conjugal…
“You can tell right away our flick ain’t for everyone,” begins a letter by filmmaker Penn Jillette on the website for The Aristocrats, a documentary he helped make. “Our movie uses that four-letter word that begins with “C.’ Our movie uses that word a lot.You know the word; it’s the…
Thursday, August 11 San Francisco-based sound-art superstar Pamela Z, a long-ago graduate of the CU-Boulder College of Music, returns tonight for a concert drawn from her extraordinary repertoire of avant-garde performance/compositions, many of which have been heard around the globe. Already gifted with a set of trained soprano operatic pipes,…
Bob Saget has a lot of fond memories from his days playing Danny Tanner on ABC’s Full House. “One episode, we had a donkey in the house named Eeyore,” Saget recalls. “And the donkey kept getting aroused and getting this huge erection. The girls were level with it. They were…
SAT, 8/13 Attempting to promote diversity and raise funds for the non-profit educational art program Destination: Artistic Activism, local poet Day Acoli has launched the first-ever Aurora Black Arts Festival. This lively benefit, beginning today at 10 a.m. and running through 7 p.m. tomorrow at Fletcher Plaza, 9900 East Colfax…
SAT, 8/13 Still pining for the times of tight jeans, Aqua Net, and heavy-metal T-shirts? Have a thing for big tires crunching metal? If so, you will definitely want to haul butt up to Copper Mountain for Monsters on the Mountain, which kicks off today and runs through tomorrow evening…
SAT, 8/13 Videographer Juan Downey, who died in 1993, is remembered as one of Chile’s most innovative talents. It’s appropriate, then, that Film Under the Stars: Celebrating Chilean Video Artist Juan Downey, happening tonight at the Museo de las Américas, promises to be as creative as its subject. Rewe, Downey’s…
WED, 8/17 In 1947, the first Edinburgh International Festival — a post-war attempt to reunite Europe through art — was crashed by eight uninvited theater groups. They played ’round the fringes of the Scotland town, drawing crowds to their makeshift storefront and rooftop stages. Before long, their spontaneous act of…
Summer used to be the time when the art world all but shut down. The idea was that collectors were on vacation, so why bother with noteworthy exhibits? Directors, curators and dealers would simply throw together a group outing that showed off work by the hottest artists the organizers could…
After three years, the commercial-gallery part of Studio Aiello (3563 Walnut Street, 303-297-8166) is giving up the ghost. The business succumbed to sluggish art sales and the disadvantage of an off-the-beaten-track location. On the bright side, other aspects of Studio Aiello, including the Tar Factory Atelier, will still be around,…
2005 Biennial BLOW OUT. This is the third in a series of biennials presented at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art. In the past, participation in these biennials was limited to artists from around here; for the 2005 version, it’s been expanded to include artists working in most of the Western…
The Winter’s Tale, part of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, is a peculiar hybrid of a play. It begins as tragedy, then lurches into full comic mode. There’s a sixteen-year gap in time, more comedy, and it’s back to gravitas for the final scenes. The play contains many familiar tropes –…
Impulse Theater. Basements and comedy go together like beer and nuts or toddlers and sandboxes. The basement of the Wynkoop Brewery where Impulse Theater performs is crowded, loud and energetic. Impulse does no prepared skits, nothing but pure improv — which means that what you see changes every night, and…
The contentedly independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has brought his restless energy to a series of surreal road movies that move nicely along on the strength of rare characters, quirky humor and a willing embrace of chance adventure. These quest stories for hipsters have transported Jarmusch’s fiercely loyal audience from New…
