Dairy Arts Center

My Name is Alfred Hitchcock
2025-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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May 14-18
A century after the debut of Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s world? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind Women Make Film, The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, and The Story of Film: A New Generation, tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career — his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works — in playful and revealing ways. (Mark Cousins, 2023, UK, 2:00, NR)

Sew Torn
2025-05-18 16:30 - 18:30
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May 14-18
A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way. With delightful quirkiness and elaborate devices this thwarts the heavy crime of the noir thriller with an almost fairytale unbelievability, but with the dark consequences that the Grimm brothers would embrace. (Freddy Macdonald, 2025, Switzerland/USA, 1:40, NR)

Sean Baker Series: Red Rocket
2025-05-18 19:00 - 20:30
Version 1.0.0
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Washed-up porn star Mikey Saber returns to his small Texas hometown where nobody really wants him back. Sean Baker capitalizes on the freedom of the small-budget film to explore characters and situations that challenge the audiences to step outside their comfort zone. This calls for empathy beyond likeability, acknowledging faults while not falling into shame traps. And it adds another perspective on sex work. (Sean Baker, 2021, USA, 2:10, R)
presented by Cinema Club: Sean Baker “Indie Lifer” series

Misericordia
2025-05-21 16:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-22 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-23 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-24 17:00 - 19:00
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May 21-25
The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire. The French director is at the top of his game in Misericordia, again upending all genre expectations. (Alain Guiraudie, 2024, France, 1:44, NR)

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2025-05-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-22 16:30 - 18:30, 2025-05-23 15:30 - 17:30, 2025-05-24 19:30 - 21:30
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May 21-25
Georgia O’Keeffe is widely revered as the “Mother of American Modernism” and the greatest woman artist of the 20th century. In the 1920s, O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. She posed nude for shocking photographs by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz. But she denied the widespread belief that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model for American women. This feature documentary film stars Claire Danes as the Voice of Georgia O’Keeffe with narration by Hugh Dancy. (Paul Wagner, 2024, USA, 1:58, NR)

FNW: The Ugly Stepsister
2025-05-23 20:30 - 22:00
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A sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, THE UGLY STEPSISTER follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchanting Agnes to become the belle of the ball. (Emilie Blichfeldt, 2025, Norway, 1:50, NR)
