Entertainment

Mesa Library Shows Droll Murder Mystery ‘Laura’

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Movie poster for ‘Laura.’ Courtesy photo

 

Review by KELLY DOLEJSI

If a leading lady in a 1940s Hollywood film noir is smart, sweet, witty, beautiful, and kind, two things are certain. One, every man onscreen will fall in love with her, and two, she has to die.

Mesa Public Library will screen “Laura” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the upstairs meeting-room “theater” as part of its Free Film Series.

In “Laura” (1944), showing Thursday at Mesa Public Library, Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is a shrewd advertising executive with a young, innocent face and a string of romantic attachments that Read More

This Week At The Reel Deal

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By Jim O’Donnell
Reel Deal Theater

This Friday we are opening Home. We will hold Cinderella, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, and The Second Best Marigold Hotel. We were only going to show Marigold Hotel for one week but it did so well, we have to hold it for one more week. Run All Night will end this Thursday but the caveat is that projector broke down and we are waiting on parts so it most likely won’t be repaired by Thursday. I hope to get it up and running by Friday.

Movie poster for ‘Home.’ Courtesy Reel Deal Theater

Home: When Oh, a loveable misfit from another planet, lands on Earth Read More

‘Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco’ Premiers In Los Alamos April 21

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Micah True, known as Caballo Blanco, on a run. Courtesy photo

FILM News:

“Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco,” as feature-length documentary about ultra-running legend Micah True will premiere at the Reel Deal Theater in Los Alamos at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 21. The one-night-only event is sponsored by the High Altitude Athletics Club of Los Alamos.

Movie Poster for ‘Run Free.” Courtesy/film producers

Micah True, better known as Caballo Blanco – the White Horse – was the focal character of Christopher McDougall’s 2009 best-selling book “Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes Read More

Ensemble Transforms Scrap Waste Into Music At Debut Show In Taos April 9

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TCA News:
 
TAOS ― The Taos Center for the Arts (TCA) presents the internationally renowned percussion ensemble, Scrap Arts Music, for one night only at 7:30 p.m., April 9 at the Taos Community Auditorium.
Scrap Arts Music is music that starts out as scrap, turns into art and then transforms into unforgettable sound. Hear intricate rhythms, experience raw energy and athletic choreography, and see the most inventive reuse of materials on stage today.
Instruments can be fashioned from industrial scrap and offbeat materials ranging from accordion parts to artillery shells,
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Cinema Cindy Reviews: Insurgent

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Los Alamos Plays Montana In ‘Hellbent’ Film

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Los Alamos County Film Liaison Kelly Stewart with Chee Ho, location manager for the film ‘Hellbent’ Thursday at Starbucks on Central Avenue. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.coom
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

When you need to launch a car from a cliff for your movie shoot in Los Alamos County, who you gonna call? The answer is County Film Liaison Kelly Stewart. Chee Ho, location manager for the independent film Hellbent did so just recently.

“Kelly has made a tremendous difference to our coming here,” Ho said. “She’s an invaluable asset.”

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CSF Wind Orchestra Opens 2015 Season March 29

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Concert poster. Courtesy/Wind Orchestra of Concordia Santa Fe

MUSIC News:

The Wind Orchestra of Concordia Santa Fe opens its 2015 season with an array of 20th- and 21st-Century compositions in a program entitled Colors of the Southwest, in conjunction with the new art exhibit of the same title at the New Mexico Museum of Art. 

This program features works that capture the musical life and landscapes of the southwestern United States.  For contrast in the program, guest conductor Dr. Jaclyn Hartenberger from the University of Georgia has included two pieces from other geographical Read More

Cinema Cindy Reviews ‘Cinderella’

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By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“Cinderella”, Disney’s 2015 remake of the much-remade story, is actually not bad. Although there are parts of the film that are obviously for children and pre-teen girls, adults who remember with fondness the animated Disney film of the same name will find some happy memories here.

Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) makes it possible for this live action film to incorporate visual magic.

The list of delights found in this film version of the classic fairy tale would have to start with the CGI transformations of the mice, lizards, and goose into the horses, footmen Read More

Cinema Cindy: ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’

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Review by CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos

“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” is an equally entertaining sequel to the first film of the same enterprise. Like the “First Exotic Marigold Hotel” which gained much acclaim in 2011, “The Second” features Judy Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and a few other British character actors, all of whom have chosen to retire in this hotel in Jaipur, India. Their relationships with one another and their adventures in India create the vignettes in this ensemble film.

But the story holding all the vignettes together is the impending wedding of Sonny (Dev Patel), Read More