Screening of feature film F.E.A.R. to benefit Panida
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It takes a lot of work to make a feature film. All the pre-production, planning, shooting, rewriting, editing and a thousand other tasks are instantly …
Category: Movie Reviews
Documentary White Noise paints a portrait of alt-right provocateurs
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Journalists, documentarians and certain types of social scientists have for a long time been familiar with the conundrum of researching and reporting on subjects with …
A kinder, gentler kind of film
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Living in a dramatic age when each day seems to bring some new calamity or crisis, quiet displays of empathy are refreshing. That’s truer as …
Shades of gray
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The ironies and contradictions in Passing, a 2021 Netflix film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, are apparent from the outset.
The …
Disney delivers magic and mayhem with Encanto and The Book of Boba Fett
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Almost certainly banking on Americans hunkering down during the holiday season — it’s not like anyone’s getting anywhere via plane — Disney+ rolled out two …
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 …
Dog eat dog
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Films seem to appear out of nowhere these days, popping up with little to no fanfare on various streaming services. That can be good or …
A documentary for our times
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The good news is The Antidote is a wonderful, uplifting documentary film. The bad news? That it had to be made in the first place.…
Getting to know the new Panida director
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Veronica Knowlton has passion — that much is evident after speaking with her for just a few minutes. The 28-year-old chosen by the Panida Board …
The next generation of storytellers
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With the advent of new technology and media, the art of storytelling has changed volumes in the millenia humans have inhabited the earth but, at …
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
