Opening
Sugarcane shows the reckoning of an Indigenous community in Canada in the light of an investigation into unmarked graves at the site of an Indian residential school.
New documentary from New Mexican filmmaker explores post-WWII Operation Paperclip, and the appalling past and yet extraordinary genius of Wernher von Braun, who led the development of Apollo 11's rocket.
Take a break from all the excitement of the market and watch a film (or two) by Indigenous filmmakers from across the globe.
Written on the Landscape: Mysteries Beyond Chaco offers elevated insights on the Chaco civilization
Director-producer Lois Lipman’s film First We Bombed New Mexico will likely at least do one thing: It will break your heart. And the injustice the film depicts will enrage you.
95 years of opera classics in classic cartoons
Opera has been featured (and made fun of) in cartoons for 95 years, from Mickey Mouse's The Opry House in 1929 to many episodes of The Simpsons today.
Internal promotions gave CCA ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe a new leadership duo at its cinema program and they've already expanded screenings and launched new initiatives.
With the release of Maestro, we take a look at two other portrayers of celluloid conductors: Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours, a Preston Sturges masterpiece, and Leopold Stokowski playing Leopold Stokowski in One Hundred Men and a Girl.
Quite the overture
In the new film Maestro, the focus is on the sometimes idyllic, more often challenged marriage between Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, featuring exceptional performances by Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan as the duo.
Pass the gravy ... and the remote
Pasatiempo and The New Mexican staffers serve streaming picks for when you're stuffed this Thanksgiving.
Where the buffalo roamed
A new Ken Burns documentary hunts for answers to how colonization led to the destruction of wildlife in the West and its impact on Indigenous cultures.
Brian Sandford
Pasatiempo reporter
Documentary demonstrates how making the arts accessible provides opportunity for homeless children.
Here's your weekly roundup of some of the must-see, must-do, must-know things that need to be on your radar this week.
A wall on Lena Street offers a glimpse inside the mind of experimental filmmaker Godfrey Reggio.
Brian Sandford
Pasatiempo reporter
Richard Montañez may or may not have been the actual creator of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, but Eva Longoria tells his story with love in her feature film directorial debut.
Spencer Fordin
Writer
If you're a mother in need of an ego boost or are suffering from a Hallmark-induced diabetic Mother's Day swoon, Pasatiempo offers a film roundup that will have you feeling better in no time at all.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has introduced young readers to the idea of puberty for more than 50 years. Now, it’s finally a major motion picture — but what do you remember about the book?
The ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Film Festival will present a number of compelling films over the course of its run, and programming director Aaron Leventman took some time to discuss some of the features and documentaries that comprise its highlights.Â
Spencer Fordin
Writer
Actress Karen Allen will attend the ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Film Festival both to present her latest film, A Stage of Twilight, and accept an award recognizing her decades-long career. Allen, who began acting in 1973, shares her thoughts about the craft, losing people close to her, her latest film, being able to go incognito despite a famous face thanks to people's cellphone addictions, and what makes her laugh.
Brian Sandford
Pasatiempo reporter
The 23rd edition of the ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Fe Film Festival will host Hollywood familiar faces in Karen Allen and Jacqueline Bisset, and it will show 17 feature films, 60 shorts, and 13 documentary features over nine days. There will be talkback events with some of the filmmakers and stars and official after-parties at Hervé Wine Bar.
Spencer Fordin
Writer
Beginning in the 1500s, the Spanish seized 10-year-old boys in what's now New Mexico and trained them to serve as militias to protect the Spanish from raiding Utes and Comanches. The boys, referred to as genÃzaros, were stripped of their tribal identity and left without a place to go when they were freed years or decades later. Gary Medina Cook's documentary The GenÃzaro Experience — Shadows in Light sheds light on their history.
Brian Sandford
Pasatiempo reporter
Bobs at work
Robert Gottlieb, 91, is the subject of an engaging documentary, Turn Every Page, about his 50-year editing relationship with Robert Caro, 87, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker
True crime in the French style
A novelist observes a murder trial for her new book and finds herself deeply connected to the accused in this award-winning French film from first-time writer-director Alice Diop.
I, Zombie
Bill Nighy anchors screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro's elegant adaptation of the 1952 Kurosawa film Ikiru.
The primal wound
A group of misfits find a family in Broker, Hirokazu Koreeda's unexpectedly heartwarming road movie about baby sellers.
Tracy Mobley-Martinez
Pasatiempo Editor
A dizzying display of decadence
Margot Robbie delivers a fearless performance in Babylon as a cocaine-addled ingenue, but her character is ultimately abandoned by Damien Chazelle's mash-up of a story.
In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Antonio Banderas returns as the fabled feline swashbuckler in an amusing-ish animated adventure.
Brendan Fraser is great, the movie not so much
The actor's smart, humane and vulnerable central performance in The Whale is weighed down by Darren Aronofsky's mawkish adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter's play.
Healing in the jungle
The nature documentary Wildcat follows the stories of three trauma survivors in the Amazon jungle: an ex-soldier, a wildlife rehabilitator, and an adorable wildcat.
An uncomfortable truth
The highly anticipated sequel to James Cameron's Avatar is a sometimes-beautiful bore.
Will Smith plays a man feeing the horrors of slavery in Antoine Fuqua's Civil War chase film.
This tear-jerker earns its tissues
Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge star in the romantic dramedy Spoiler Alert, based on Michael Ausiello's memoir of life with husband Kit Cowan.
Deck the halls with buckets of blood
David Harbour plays an avenging ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Claus in this noirish and occasionally hilarious home-invasion thriller Violent Night.
'Eo': A donkey's tragic tale, rapturously told
Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's latest film captures the beauty of the world and the cruelty of humankind.
The FX on Hulu adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's novel stars Mallori Johnson as a 21st-century Black woman who time-travels back to a 19th-century plantation.
Tracy Mobley-Martinez
Pasatiempo Editor
Art and activism through the lens
In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, documentarian Laura Poitras presents a compelling, if one-sided, portrait of photographer Nan Goldin.
Baltimore film icon John Waters isn't visiting to help ensure ·è¿ÍÖ±²¥ Feans like Christmas. His holiday one-man show, which he has been performing since 1996, is aimed more at helping them survive it.
Brian Sandford
Pasatiempo reporter
Studios trot out bigger and better movies for the holidays.
Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell star in the fact-based tale of a friendship between Korean War aviators.
The third and final season of the Netflix dramedy Dead to Me is a fitting if uneven ending to a compelling story about female friendship and loss.
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