Freda Kelly really is a good egg. introduces us to the gentle administrative assistant who for years handled the growing needs of four fabulous blokes named Paul, John, Ringo and George.
Director Ryan White’s film opens the fifth annual , in Golden Sept. 11-15, with a couple of satellite screenings in Boulder.
Using archival footage and present-day interviews, White gives us a glimpse of the Beatles’ earliest years as well as a sense of what kind of temperament could handle the fresh-to-fame foursome, their overheated fans and the mercurial moods of manager Brian Epstein.
DocuWest will screen a number of shorts packages. Its substantive lineup of features includes: Lucy Walker’s “The Crash Reel,” about world-class snowboarder who suffered a career-upending accident in 2009; Sebastian Junger’s about the late war-zone photojournalist and Junger’s co-director on the Oscar-nominated doc David Lewis’ “The Pleasures of Being Out of Step” profiles jazz critic and one-time .
There’s even a movie that makes good on the adage “stranger than fiction.” — about the burgeoning death-care industry as it relates to our pets — might have even the most ardent pet lover scratching their heads at the lengths owners go to in letting go, or not, of their animals.
DocuWest: Sept. 11-15 at the American Mountaineering Center and the Fine Arts Center in Golden. Also at the Dairy Center in Boulder. For schedule and tickets: docuwestfest.com.
Lisa Kennedy: 303-954-1567, lkennedy@denverpost.com, twitter.com/bylisakennedy
