This weekend, the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” series continues at the Roxy Theatre in Missoula with “Don Carlo,” by Giuseppe Verdi. While not as well-known as Verdi’s big hits (“Aida,” “Rigoletto,” “La Traviata”), “Don Carlo” follows the script pretty well: It’s full of big tunes, epic drama, war and romance. Since this is the Met’s production, you can also expect a lavish production and some of the best singers in the world. There’s nothing remotely “Christmasy” about it, but for some folks, that’s a plus this time of year. Here’s the press release straight from the Met. [Read More...]
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It’s that time of year again, when every self-appointed critic and self-respecting media outlet looks back and ponders the best (and worst) of the year. We’re no different around here at the Missoulian. On Christmas Day, the Missoulian will publish an issue of the Entertainer devoted largely to the year in music, film, [...] Advertisement Leslie Nielsen, star of the “Naked Gun” movies and co-star of “Airplane!,” is dead. Every modern generation has its formative films, and for mine, “Airplane!” was a classic. Too young for Mel Brooks, too young and American to catch Monty Python until it was already in the classics bin, too old and “mature” [...] This Saturday and Sunday, the Missoula Art Museum will present a pair of advance screenings of “Anything is Possible,” a film about the South African artist William Kentridge. If you’ve never heard of him, Kentridge is a multimedia artist best known for his playful yet hauntingly beautiful animated films. Thus this film is likely to be a perfect idiom to explore his work.
Here’s a trailer for the film, and a press release about this weekend’s screenings. [Read More...]
Images of bison grace old nickels, multiple state flags, and the logos of countless state agencies and private businesses. Here in the American West, the only place where it seems you can’t find bison is out in the wild. That fact always struck Doug Hawes-Davis as a little strange. Moreover, as a documentary filmmaker, Hawes-Davis found it more than passingly odd that, in a world where everything from ants to whales have merited feature-film treatment, nobody had yet explored the curious plight and cultural history of the most iconic creature of the West. So Hawes-Davis – whose own production company, High Plains Films, features a bison in its logo – set out to change all that. The result is “Facing the Storm,” a 72-minute documentary that celebrated its world premiere at the Kansas International Film Festival this weekend, before coming home for its Montana premiere at the Wilma Theatre on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. [Read More...] Guitarist Jon Dillon Schumaker hasn’t been much of a fixture on regional performance stages. But starting next week, the 20-year-old Polson musician will be heard in movie theatres around the west and beyond, when the film, “Ride the Divide,” begins a series of screenings in Canada and the U.S., with Montana stops in Whitefish, Helena, Missoula, and Bozeman. [Read More...] “Sex and the City 2″ opens this weekend. If you trust newspaper critics — which, it must be noted, few people do, and often justifiably so — the film’s a dud. The most interesting part, from my perspective, has been the race among critics to see who can roast it the mostest. [Read More...] Apparently quite a number of community members have been up in arms about the $1 service fee added to the price of tickets to the International Wildlife Film Festival by GrizTix. Nevermind that every professional ticketing system in the country charges ticketing fees, or that $1 is way lower than any fee I’ve seen in recent years (Ticketmaster typically adds upwards of $15 to every ticket it sells); apparently this has turned into a full-blown “debacle,” according to a note I received from IWFF festival director Janet Rose. On Sunday, she sent out a letter addressed to the entire community. I reproduce it here in full; but the short of it is, the IWFF is absorbing the $1 fee by lowering ticket prices immediately. [Read More...] In case you’re one of those odd stoners who actually likes to get up off the couch and go out in public, this screening at the Wilma might be right up your alley. And the Wilma has exceptional snacks. The directors of the upcoming film, “Winter in the Blood,” are holding another open casting call for Native American actors, this time in Great Falls. Here’s info straight from the source: [Read More...] |
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