A new film about Hunter S. Thompson’s 1970 campaign for sheriff in Aspen is being released in limited movie theaters in the U.S. on Friday. It is not yet playing Aspen, but is playing nearby at the Roaring Fork Valley’s Movieland in El Jebel.
“Fear and Loathing in Aspen,” written and directed by Bobby Kennedy III, stars Jay Bulger as Thompson in a dramatized account of the local hippie-led reform movement and revolutionary “Freak Power” campaign.
The film has followed a winding five-year-long road to this quiet release from Shout! Factory.
Its production was funded by $300,000 in rebates granted by Colorado’s Economic Development Commission in 2016. At the time it had a $1.85 million budget, according to a Denver Post report. But Kennedy later told the Aspen Daily News that the non-government money had been promised by Sony and that his team walked away from that deal due to creative differences, proceeding instead with a shoestring $250,000 budget.
The Aspen Thrift Shop’s artwork is prepared for the art sale at the Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen on Thursday, July 22, 2021. The sale is a culmination of two years of artwork and will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday with a preview from 4-6 p.m. Friday. The sale has signed art and quirky finds, some of which will be sold in a silent auction. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times)
Less than 48 hours before the Aspen Thrift Shop’s annual art sale, organizer Katherine Sand was still coming to terms with just how many posters, books, paintings and ephemera she had to sort through and price.
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Fat City Gallery this weekend will host Omar Alshogre to discuss his experiences of political imprisonment in Syria. (Courtesy photo)
The Fat City Gallery is hosting three days of events and an exhibition this weekend aimed at exposing ongoing human rights abuses in Syria and rallying an Aspen audience to the cause.
The gallery will host detention and torture survivor Omar Alshogre, who will give testimony of his experience Friday, followed by a exhibition of images by the anonymous photographer known as “Caesar” who has documented the Assad regime’s murder of detainees, and will close with a screening Sunday of the documentary “Red Lines.”