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After a year of enduring shuttered theaters, delayed release dates and countless wasted hours scrolling through obscure streaming titles, audiences in Park City are finally being welcomed back to theaters. Park City Film will be hosing in-person screenings at the Jim Santy auditorium beginning on April 16 with a slate of Oscar-nominated films for audiences to enjoy on the big screen. Though Utah’s mask mandate is expiring on April 10, Park City Film is implementing COVID-safe restrictions and limited capacity to ensure audience safety as they reopen. The 446 seat Jim Santy Auditorium will b...

Courtesy of Park City Film The wait is over. On April 16, Park City Film will restart its public, in-person weekend and special screenings at the Jim Santy Auditorium, said Executive Director Katharine Wang. “With vaccination rates going up in the county, and seeing theaters in New York and (Los Angeles) opening up, it looked like April would be a time when people would be comfortable coming back to the theaters,” Wang said. Since Feb. 19, Park City Film has presented private, in-person screenings after nearly a year of not holding events at the Jim Santy Auditorium. Wang, her board and s...

Courtesy Of Neon JAIL TALES Koné plays a newcomer to a dreaded prison who must spin stories to survive in Lacôte's gritty fable. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I watched a prison drama from Ivory Coast that was short-listed for the 2021 Academy Awards. An inventive blend of realism and fable, Night of the Kings streams through the Vermont International Film Foundation's Virtual Cinema through April 15. Fi...

Review: 'Two Distant Strangers' highlights stellar class of Oscar shorts Oscar-Nominated Short Films program, a favorite on the Detroit Film Theater's annual calendar, unfolds virtually beginning Friday Adam Graham A White cop and a young Black man are caught in an endless cycle of violence in "Two Distant Strangers," an invigorating "Groundhog Day"-style tale with a social justice twist, and one of the highlights of the 2021 Oscar-Nominated Short Films program.  Even in an off year for the Oscars (and for Hollywood in general), the Oscar Shorts program — which presents the Academy Award-...

SXSW Kicks off Virtual Online Festival The iconic South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is almost entirely virtual this year, streaming content across five channels this week.