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Navajo metal bands featured in Durango Independent Film Festival’s Native Cinema Program

The 15th annual Durango Film Festival, “Focus on Film,” is about to take over Durango, with more than 110 films telling more than 110 different stories starting Wednesday. One of ...

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 28-March 5

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) (15th annual Durango Independent Film Festival. For more information, visit Gaslight Theatre (102 Fifth S...

Netflix series explores the assassination of Malcolm X

ALBUQUERQUE – A new Netflix series is tackling questions about the 1965 assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X. “Who Killed Malcolm X?” dives into questions surrounding his ...

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 21-27

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle (Sunday only) When Giselle learns that her beloved Albrecht is promised to another wom...

‘Good Times’ Ja’Net DuBois dies; co-wrote ‘Jeffersons’ theme

LOS ANGELES – Ja’Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on “Good Times” and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died. DuBois’ song “Mov...

Santa Fe officials want daily flights to LA amid film boom

SANTA FE – Economic development officials are seeking the return of daily flights between Santa Fe and Los Angeles to support the ongoing growth of film production in New Mexico’s capital ci...

Filmmaker seeking actors for new movie

Native American, non-Native American performers sought for ‘Touch the Water’

Movies playing in Durango Feb. 14-20

Animas City Theatre (128 E. College Drive, 799-2281, www.animascitytheatre.com) NTLive: Hansard (Saturday and Sunday only) It’s a summer’s morning in 1988, and Tory politician Robin Hesketh ...

German filmmaker Vilsmaier, known for ‘Stalingrad,’ dies

BERLIN – Joseph Vilsmaier, a German filmmaker whose striking portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad brought home the horrors of war to a new generation, has died. He was 81. His ag...

From Pitt to ‘1917,’ what to anticipate at Sunday’s Oscars

LOS ANGELES – The Oscars are here, already. After the shortest awards season in decades, the 92nd annual Academy Awards will get underway Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Lo...

Actor-comedian Orson Bean, 91, hit and killed by car in LA

LOS ANGELES – Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian who enlivened the game show “To Tell the Truth” and played a crotchety merchant on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” was hit and killed by a...

Durango filmmaker explores Silverton in new documentary

‘Silverton Gold’ will make its debut next week