‘Barking Water’ film perfect for Valentine’s Day
By Reader Staff “I want to be holding your hand when I go,” says Frankie to his former lover, Irene, in “Barking Water,” a poignant love story perfect for the upcoming Valentine’s Day weekend....
Category: Movie Reviews
‘Red Power Energy’ film depicts Standing Rock struggle
By Reader Staff American Indian Tribes across the West are grappling with the dilemma of how to balance development of energy resources on their ancestral lands with the traditional beliefs of caring for and...
Local short ‘Peace Among Black Hills’ premieres at Panida
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff For Sarah Hines, “Peace Among Black Hills” shows the power of dreaming big. Inspired by the life of her grandmother, the locally produced film tells a tale of perseverance,...
‘Snowden’ film highlights
By Chris Balboni Reader Contributor “I am not the story here,” says Edward Snowden in “Citizenfour,” Laura Poitras’s Oscar-winning documentary covering his exposure of the National Security Agency surveillance programs. For Snowden, all that...
Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse warms the heart
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff How effectively can a fart convey the human experience? That’s the question filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, known professionally as Daniels, tackle in “Swiss Army Man,” an absurdist...
‘Dough’ film finds redemption in unexpected places
By Reader Staff Pot in brownies we’ve heard of. Pot in challah bread? Not so much. “Dough” tells the story of Nat, an old curmudgeonly Jewish baker (Jonathan Pryce) struggling to keep his small...
Animation Show of Shows a creative showcase
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff One of the things I love about animation is its heightened sense of reality. A medium of storytelling filtered through pure imagination, animation done right makes fantasy more fantastic,...
‘Trudell’ chronicles life of Native American activist
By Reader Staff The March film screening finale, as part of the East Bonner County Library District and The Idaho Mythweaver’s free Native Heritage Film Series, is a provocative and poignant artistic portrait that...
Reader Reels brings alternative cinema to Sandpoint
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff There’s a weird, wild world of movies out there, and for the first time, Sandpoint will have access to it in the theater. The Sandpoint Reader and the Panida...
‘When Marnie Was There’ among upcoming films at Panida
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff It’s hard to imagine a more bittersweet swan song for Studio Ghibli than “When Marnie Was There.” Founded in 1985, the Japanese animation studio has arguably produced more masterpieces...
