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  • ANCHORAGE (8/11) Q&A’s at the 7:00pm screenings on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday

    ANCHORAGE (8/11) Q&A’s at the 7:00pm screenings on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday

    Director Scott Monahan and members from the filmmaking team will be hosting Q&A’s at the 7:00pm screenings Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.
  • WITH THIS LIGHT "Talkback & Q&A with Co-Director Laura Bermúdez, & Voces Latinas after 7pm on 8/11

    WITH THIS LIGHT "Talkback & Q&A with Co-Director Laura Bermúdez, & Voces Latinas after 7pm on 8/11

    "Talkback and Q&A with Honduran Co-Director, Laura Bermúdez, and Voces Latinas following the 7:00 pm on Friday, 8/11. English & Spanish Speakers welcome!"
  • WALID Q&AS EVERY DAY AFTER THE 6:00PM SHOW ONLY WITH DIRECTOR AREEL ABU BAKAR & STAR MEGAT SHARIZAL

    WALID Q&AS EVERY DAY AFTER THE 6:00PM SHOW ONLY WITH DIRECTOR AREEL ABU BAKAR & STAR MEGAT SHARIZAL

    Q&A every day after the 6:00pm show ONLY, with Director Areel Abu Bakar and Star Megat Sharizal.
  • THE HOLLY Q&AS with Director Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts (subject)

    THE HOLLY Q&AS with Director Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts (subject)

    Q&A with Director Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts (subject) on Friday March 3rd and Q&A with Director Julian Rubinstein on March 4th.   Terrance Roberts is a former gang leader who appears to have escaped his past. Ten years from his days in prison, he is a prominent anti-gang activist whose community work made him the face of a high-profile redevelopment of Denver’s civil rights landmark, Holly Square. But, as the redevelopment is coming to fruition, Roberts shocks the city by shooting a young gang member—at his own peace rally. Journalist Julian Rubinstein, who grew up in Denver, moves back and begins looking into the case. He finds himself caught up in a world of informants, gang members, activists and developers uneasily coexisting in a rapidly gentrifying community.   Many of them are also covertly working together on a federally funded law enforcement operation. As the city’s gang violence spikes and Roberts heads to trial facing life in prison, dangerous truths about the neighborhood’s cycle of violence and what really happened on the day of the peace rally are revealed.
  • WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FILM FESTIVAL October 20 - October 26

    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FILM FESTIVAL October 20 - October 26

    Our mission is to inform, engage and inspire audiences about the upmost need and importance of the protection of global biodiversity. We do this through the annual film festivals in New York, Los Angeles and Monterrey, Mexico. WCFF also hosts in partnership events in Brazil, China, Nigeria and other countries. Our educational outreach programs take place on college and university campuses across the globe. All education outreach events are free for students, staff, faculty and the public to attend. People that attend and participate in our events are international wildlife conservationists, filmmakers, photographers, scientists and people across the globe that work toward the preservation of global biodiversity.
  • Unidentified Objects Q&A with Cast and Crew this Friday/Saturday/Sunday

    Unidentified Objects Q&A with Cast and Crew this Friday/Saturday/Sunday

    Peter is an uptight gay dwarf hiding from the world in a lonely apartment until his upbeat—and possibly unhinged—neighbor Winona wakes him up to borrow his car. Her destination? What she believes to be the site of an upcoming alien encounter. Desperate for a few bucks and a shot at redemption, he reluctantly sets out with her on a border-defying search for their place in the universe.
  • THE YEAR BETWEEN Q&A March 8

    THE YEAR BETWEEN Q&A March 8

    Q&A Wednesday March 8 after 5:55pm with Steve Buscemi, J. Smith-Cameron, Wyatt Oleff and Alex Heller (Writer and Director)
  • A Little White Lie Q&A Friday March 3rd at 6:15pm show

    A Little White Lie Q&A Friday March 3rd at 6:15pm show

    FRIDAY MARCH ​3rd​ 6:15PM SHOW: Intro at 6:15pm by Writer/Director Michael Maren and​ Q&A after the show with writer/director Michael Maren, author Chris Belden and moderated by actor Andrew McCarthy
  • THE HOLLY Reviews

    THE HOLLY Reviews

    "A documentary that many of the most powerful people... do not want you to see.... This is the rare documentary that has all the elements one looks for from a scripted film, starting with a compelling and complex antihero worthy of Shakespeare.”—John Moore, Denver Gazette   “The shocking story of 'The Holly' continues to rile Denver’s power structure…. [Terrance] Roberts is running for Denver mayor, giving ‘The Holly’ the feel of an up-to-the-minute civic primer as much as riveting, true-life drama."—John Wenzel, Denver Post   "I was completely blown away,"—Academy Award-winner Adam McKay  
  • THE NEW YORK TIMES Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done (By A.O. Scott)

    THE NEW YORK TIMES Dead for a Dollar’ Review: How the Western’s Done (By A.O. Scott)

    Walter Hill’s lean, mean shoot-’em-up is a master class in B-movie craft. “A man has a job to do, or a couple of men. They try to do it against tremendous odds. They do it.” That was how Budd Boetticher, whose “B” westerns of the 1950s became touchstones of the genre, summed up his movies. Walter Hill’s sinewy new western, “Dead for a Dollar,” is dedicated to Boetticher, who died in 2001, and honors his memory with appropriate thrift and elegance. It’s also a reminder that Hill — who at 80 has had a career that includes cult classics (“The Warriors,” “Streets of Fire”), smash hits (“48 Hours”) and everything in between — is a master in his own right, whose artistry has often been overlooked and undervalued. The plot is maybe a little more complicated than what you’d see in “The Tall T,” “Ride Lonesome” or other Boetticher gems, but like them, “Dead for a Dollar” organizes its action around a set of practical challenges and ethical conundrums. There are more than a couple of men (and only one woman) involved in this caper, and the jobs they have to do put them at potentially fatal cross purposes with one another and with themselves. Everyone wants to stay alive and make a living, and also to follow whatever code they imagine constrains their behavior. It’s in the nature of things — certainly of westerns — that not everyone will succeed, and that philosophical arguments will be resolved with bullets. Hill, who wrote as well as directed, is in no hurry to get to the shooting. He understands the value of the slow buildup, and also likes to listen to his characters talk — especially the salty old desert rats played by Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz. When we first meet them, Joe Cribbens (Dafoe), a grizzled all-purpose outlaw, is about to be sprung from the New Mexico Territorial Jail. He carries a grudge against Max Borlund (Waltz), the businesslike bounty hunter who sent him there. The settling of their score will have to wait. Joe plans to retire south of the border for some R & R — he’s fond of poker, liquor and “señoritas” — while Max has a new assignment to deal with. An American soldier has run off to Mexico with the wife of a wealthy, politically ambitious landowner named Kidd (Hamish Linklater), who hires Max to hunt them down. It’s inevitable that Max and Joe will cross paths — the Mexico of American westerns is a small place, in spite of its vastness — but the movie has a lot of thematic ground to cover on the way to that meeting. The western genre traffics heavily in myth, and also in politics, and there’s plenty of both here. An archetypal drama about loyalty, treachery and honor winds through thickets of racism and greed. What Kidd describes as a kidnapping is in fact an interracial romance between Rachel (Rachel Brosnahan), his wife, and Elijah Jones (Brandon Scott), a Black Army sergeant. Elijah’s onetime friend Poe (Warren Burke), who is conscripted to help Max find the couple, has his own bitter experience as a Black man on the 1890s frontier. On both sides of the border, prejudice is sometimes trumped by the corrupting power of money, which makes a mockery of the idea of justice. Kidd’s counterpart in Mexico is Tiberio Vargas (Benjamin Bratt), a ruthless warlord whose whims can mean the difference between life and death. I’ll leave you to find out who lives and who dies, not because any of it is all that surprising but because one of the pleasures of “Dead for a Dollar” lies in appreciating Hill’s skill as a storyteller. He uses the plot as a trellis on which his sometimes florid characters can bloom, even as their choices quicken and thicken the plot. I don’t want to oversell this movie: It’s solidly and proudly a B picture, as the Boetticher dedication makes clear. But in an age of blockbuster bloat and streaming cynicism, a solid B movie — efficiently shot (by Lloyd Ahern II) and effectively acted (by everyone) is something of a miracle. Hill had a job to do. He did it. That’s worth something.
  • Q&A Sunday February 5th after 6:10pm show with Filmmaker Mo McRae

    Q&A Sunday February 5th after 6:10pm show with Filmmaker Mo McRae

    James and Vanessa are the perfect married couple; successful, sexy, and smart. But after learning that the latest fatal police shooting involving an unarmed youth in their community was committed by their neighbor, a white policeman, they are shaken from their upper-middle-class complacency and driven to take action—with explosive results.