It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At first blush, this tale of three passionate youths caught up in Paris’s late-’60s countercultural revolution looked downright trite. Never mind that esteemed veteran director Bernardo Bertolucci…
Two sublime art forms will collide again this year during the eighth Denver Jazz on Film Festival at the Starz FilmCenter on Friday, February 13. Featured films chronicle the life of famed songwriter Cole Porter; jazz icon Jimmy Scott, who has been massaging tender ballads for more than half a…
Jazz, often called America’s one true art form, is the focus of this weekend’s eighth annual Denver Jazz on Film Festival, presented by KUVO/Jazz 89 at the Starz FilmCenter. “The objective of the festival is to share with Denver the importance of jazz and blues in our culture,” says producer…
Thursday, February 12 You gotta give love to get love, so stop moping. The unattached will have an opportunity to meet other singles at a Valentine Week Volunteer Night hosted by Food Bank of the Rockies. Learn how you can help others and mingle with the opposite sex between 5…
Meet René Risqué, a self-proclaimed international pop sensation who claims he was raised by a loving prostitute in a Paris brothel. Risqué is on a mission. “A lot of people live very dreary lives,” he observes from an undisclosed New York location. “My performances allow audiences to experience a little…
FRI, 2/13 Nobody knows more about love among the animals than zookeepers, whose livelihoods rely to some extent on successful sex in captivity. “Ninety percent of the animals you see in zoos were actually born in zoos,” notes Denver Zoo spokeswoman Suzanne Balog. So if Leo and Leona aren’t getting…
SAT, 2/14 Make a pledge of love — and a legally binding commitment — at today’s thirteenth annual Mountaintop Matrimony at Loveland Ski Area, where happy couples can be joined in marriage or renew their vows on top of a majestic peak. “Last year we had more than sixty couples…
FRI, 2/13 How can you not be curious about an ancient civilization whose idea of a decent microbrew process was to grind up corn and boiling water, pop some in the gob for a good chew, then spit it into the recipe to help the fermentation along? That’s a trick…
FRI, 2/13 Linda Eastman McCartney, who died of cancer in 1998, became famous as a shutterbug of the ’60s rock pantheon. She was already on a roll before she met Paul McCartney at a 1967 photo shoot; her first break as a photographer came in the form of an invitation…
FRI, 2/13 Delbert McClinton has never gone out of style, partly because he’s never really been in style. Consider that “Givin’ It Up for Your Love,” his biggest commercial success, was only the 58th- most-popular song of 1981, trailing behind such works of genius as Gino Vanelli’s “Living Inside Myself,”…
Pablo Picasso had a long life — he died in 1973 at age 92 — and during his epic career, he made a number of key stylistic breakthroughs essential to the development of modern art. He was on the ground floor of cubism and surrealism and, come to think of…
Ivar Zeile, previously with the Cordell Taylor Gallery, which has closed, and Ron Judish, the director of the gone-but-not-forgotten Judish Fine Arts, have together launched the city’s newest art hot spot, (+) Zeile/Judish Gallery (2350 Lawrence Street, 303-296-0927). The new gallery occupies the old Cordell Taylor location, but it will…
Balance. On the West 11th Avenue side of Fresh Art, the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development has paid for a tiny sculpture garden as part of the long, ongoing Santa Fe Drive beautification project. The garden, composed of a group of rectangular forms made of cast concrete that serve as…
The year is 1921. Aram Tomasian, a survivor of the 1915 massacre of Armenians by the Turks, is trying to make a life for himself in Milwaukee. He has bought himself a picture bride, a fifteen-year-old orphan called Seta. Aram is young, but he’s rigid and traditional in his thinking,…
I enjoyed almost every moment of Visiting Mr. Green, but the title character’s Russian-style glass teacups disarmed me completely. During my teens, my Hungarian stepfather used to bring me tea with whiskey, lemon and honey in just such a cup whenever I was in bed with a cold. And the…
Bright Ideas. Bright Ideas is about a couple who will do anything to get their toddler into the best kindergarten in town. This could be a vacuous sitcom premise, but for the most part it’s attacked with savage humor, leavened by moments of dazed empathy. Genevra and Joshua were nice…
When the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team — twenty raw college boys — beat the seemingly invincible, state-hardened Soviets and went on to win the gold medal at Lake Placid, New York, the event was regarded, even in palm-lined Miami and iceless Honolulu, as the most amazing feat in U.S…
Viewers rightfully marvel at the colorful CG seascapes of Finding Nemo and the unique drawing style of The Triplets of Belleville, but when it comes to the actual plots of contemporary animated films, no one’s pushing the boundaries quite like anime auteur Satoshi Kon. Having taken a page from the…
The cult surrounding Cory McAbee’s surreal romp The American Astronaut just grows and grows — enthralled, you can’t help thinking, as much by the film’s inaccessibility (released in 2001, it’s still not out on video or DVD) as by the depth of its weirdness. So. Who wouldn’t want to revisit…
If Bud Selig hears about this, he’ll probably go nuts. On Monday, February 9, exiled baseball legend Pete Rose will be within sight of a major-league ballpark when he visits the Tattered Cover’s LoDo store to sign copies of his new memoir, My Prison Without Bars, which sells for $24.95…
Thursday, February 5 It’ll be all bicyclists, all the time, at tonight’s Evening With Davis Phinney and Friends at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street in Boulder. The freewheeling event, a benefit for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, begins with an auction preview at 6:30 p.m. before rolling on into the…
When thirteen-year-old LeAnn Rimes entered the pop consciousness years ago with the hit song “Blue,” she was just a little country girl with a big voice, pure as good corn liquor. But Rimes has grown up, as evidenced by the skin she’s showing in videos and photo shoots these days,…
