Documentary film Jim Henson: Idea Man shows new side of visionary puppeteer
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Anyone who doesn’t know the name “Jim Henson” should go sit in a corner and think about their life choices. The legendary creator of the …
Tagged: documentary
Documentary film Clark Ashton Smith: The Emperor of Dreams, rediscovers one of 20th-century literature’s true originals
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Of the many hazards of being an artistic trailblazer is that your creations turn into tropes while your hand in inventing them gets forgotten.
That’s …
Netflix’s Mr. McMahon is the docu-series we need — and deserve — right now
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s an unsettling experience to watch the brand-new, hotly anticipated and much-discussed Netflix docu-series Mr. McMahon, which takes viewers on a sweeping, insider-y journey …
Banff Mountain Film Festival returns to the Panida
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Since 1995, the Panida Theater has been the local home of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, which last year expanded for the first time to …
A Western with range
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In one of the trailers for Emelie Mahdavian’s 2021 documentary Bitterbrush, Hollyn Patterson works with a colt as her fellow range rider, Colie Moline, …
A 30,000-foot trust fall
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
There are some films you probably don’t want to watch before embarking on a long airplane trip. Downfall: The Case Against Boeing should be right …
Reclaim Idaho film screening at the Panida
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
From the grassroots organization that brought Idahoans the successful ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in the state comes a documentary film about that 2018 effort, …
Portrait of the artist as an old man
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Digging through the Reader morgue, I found the obituary of sorts we wrote for Kurt Vonnegut in the April 12, 2007 edition — one day …
The Notorious RBG is coming to the Panida
By Jim Healey
Reader Contributor
On Friday, Oct. 4, the documentary film RBG about the extraordinary U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is coming to the Panida Theater. The …
Finding power in story
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Few things empower a person like being given the tools and confidence to tell their story.
The Johnson-O’Malley film program strives to do just that …
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