Bringing Sandpoint’s history to life
By Reader Staff The Bonner County Historical Society will host a special screening of Sandpoint at the North End of the Long Bridge in conjunction with the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave), bringing...
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Sandpoint’s Winter Carnival celebrates the Sled Hill
By Reader Staff As part of Sandpoint’s annual Winter Carnival, the Kaniksu Land Trust will host the premiere of the short film The Sled Hill at the Panida Theater (300 N. First Ave.) on...
International Wildlife Film Festival raises funds for local students
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff As part of Sandpoint’s Winter Carnival, The Hive (207 N. First Ave.) will host a special showing of the International Wildlife Film Festival’s 2024 lineup to raise money for...
Netflix series American Primeval gets medieval on 19th-century U.S. history
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The American West is ripe country for torture porn. The history of how “we won” the region is fraught, to put it lightly. Even that phrase “we won” requires...
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 Muppets revolutionized American puppetry...
Panida screens Groundhog Day for $5 on Groundhog Day
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Anyone who works in local media knows the peculiar exhaustion that goes with covering the same event year after year. There are only so many ways to frame a...
Instant classic Hundreds of Beavers to screen as $5 movie at the Panida
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff When director/co-writer Mike Cheslik gave an interview to the Associated Press about his black-and-white, mostly silent slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers last year, he said, “When we were shooting,...
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 the fate suffered by...
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour returns to Panida for 30th annual showing
By Reader Staff The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour will return to Sandpoint for its 30th time with three nights of screenings on Friday, Jan. 17 and Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7...
Stop calling Nosferatu ‘Gothic’
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Warning: This article contains spoilers. Horror movies aren’t especially known for their delicate themes and social commentary, but fans had high hopes for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, which promised to...
