Beginning on April 21 and running through April 26, 5Point Flagship Festival will kick off in Carbondale with a myriad of new adventure films, including a lineup of more than 30 short films and three features, filmmaker panels, live music and free community programming. The festival returns at a lower cost this year, including a […]
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‘I don’t want to survive; I want to live’
‘Wall-E’ movie Review Editor’s note: Spoilers lie ahead, but this review is well worth the read and has already resulted in the editor wanting to finally see the film. Winner of the 2009 Oscar for best animated picture, “Wall-E” (2008) was a hugely successful collaboration between Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. Set in the distant […]
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Movie Review: For the love of music, and Billy Preston
I love film again! The screening of “That’s the Way God Planned It” last week at TACAW was remarkable. The title is a song Billy Preston wrote and sang in 1971, during The Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He also danced brilliantly on stage and, in a voice-over recorded […]
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Redstone Art Foundation celebrates art and justice with movie night at Redstone Inn
This Saturday evening, Feb. 7, the Redstone Art Foundation kicks off its third winter movie night series at the Redstone Inn with a combo of Mexican cuisine and screening of the 2015 film “Woman in Gold.” While the dinners are a paid affair, Crystal River Valley cinephiles can sit in on the screening for free. […]
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5 Point spins a highlights reel —and asks you not to eat ice cream
In film, as in rock and roll, some things age poorly and some resonate. Old songs by the Rolling Stones still sound great. Last week I was reminded that the 40-minute “A Line Across the Sky,” from 2015, is one of the best climbing films ever. On Dec. 11, the Crystal Theatre in downtown Carbondale […]
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Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect that the film premier did not occur at the Wheeler Opera House, but is set to premier at the Isis Theatre in Aspen on Friday evening, Sept. 25, 2026. Vaughn Shafer’s birthday parties are legendary. For decades now, on a chilly evening in late January, some […]
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Stefano Da Frè and Coventure crank out TV pilot for Netflix Italy
Stefano Da Frè — a local filmmaker and president and CEO of Rosso Films International, along with his business partner Laura Pellegrini, has taken on a new endeavor with Coventure in Carbondale after recently finishing a TV pilot for Netflix Italy which follows “Stolen Dough” titled “A Slice of The Family Business.” “Stolen Dough” was […]
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Shining Mountains Film Festival returns this weekend
Oct. 17 and 18, the seventh annual Shining Mountains Film Festival will bring a fresh set of native documentary films to the iconic Wheeler Opera House. This festival, produced by the Aspen Indigenous Foundation (AIF), was created to commemorate a resolution passed by Aspen City Council in 2017 to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples […]
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Carbondale Arts awards fresh round of fellowship grants
On Aug. 12, Carbondale Arts announced the six local creatives receiving the latest round of grants through its Artist Fellowship Program. Each will receive $2,000 thanks to support from the Wolfpack Foundation and additional, anonymous donors. Awardees Gabriela Mejia, Anders Carlson, Andrea Orrego, Zuleika Pevec, Jill Scher and Morgan Williams will be able to use […]
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Fresh nonprofit aims to save and sustain the Crystal Theatre
Since they listed the Crystal Theatre for sale almost two years ago, owners Bob and Kathy Ezra have been intentional about any transition from the get-go. Having been the theater’s stewards for the past 40 years, they don’t want to see it fall into the wrong hands — and they aren’t alone in that. Back […]