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VR Denver VR Film Festival 11-3-22. As Mine Exactly

London manager Charlie Shackleton leads an assemblage subordinate done “As Mine Exactly,” a 30-minute unrecorded immersive communicative astir a parent and lad who are revisiting a aesculapian exigency that reshaped their lives. The virtual play is being performed for 1 ticketed assemblage subordinate astatine a clip astatine the Tattered Cover Book Store. It's portion of the Denver Film Festival’s “V.R. Arcade.” Info and showtimes astatine denverfilm.eventive.org

What’s happening today

The 45th Denver Film Festival moves into afloat plaything with the archetypal screenings astatine its location base, the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. Denver Film volition privately grant the enactment of Italian manager Mario Martone earlier a 3:30 p.m. screening of “The King of Laughter" (132 minutes). Martone, victor of the festival’s 2022 Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award, volition beryllium present for Monday’s 3:45 p.m. screening of "Nostalgia," Italy's authoritative Academy Award submission. Both screenings astatine the Sie.

Screening of the day

Tonight’s 8 p.m. red-carpet screening astatine the Ellie Caulkins Opera House is “Empire of Light,” directed by Sam Mendes and starring Olivia Colman. It’s the communicative of a 1980s British pistillate who forges an improbable relationship with a young Jamaican antheral she works with astatine the section seafront cinema done the healing powerfulness of movies. 120 minutes

Off the beaten path

Today the festival’s six escaped virtual-reality and 2 ticketed unrecorded immersive theatre experiences unfastened to the nationalist connected the little level of the Tattered Cover Book Store. Hours vary, but contiguous the “V.R. Arcade” is unfastened from 2-7 p.m. In 1 experience, you can follow the footsteps of a Korean writer successful Seoul successful 1934. In another, research the world’s archetypal V.R. depository dedicated to queer stories. For the ticketed “Gumball Dreams,” you and conscionable 2 different volition sojourn alien creatures surviving retired their last days, and assistance them to modulation from 1 world to the next.

For a antithetic appetite 

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'Chee$e' has been describd arsenic 'vibrant, amusive and afloat of evasiveness.'

Everybody loves “Chee$e,” which has been described arsenic “melty comedic genius.” From Trinidad and Tobago, this cleanable late-night movie follows an irreverent islander named Skimma arsenic helium creates a potent caller cannabis merchandise portion trying to dodge the instrumentality and enactment his unborn child. 8:45 p.m. astatine the AMC, 826 Albion St. 105 minutes

Quote of the day

“As an artist, I emotion to travel to the Denver Film Festival each year. They grant a batch of antithetic types of work, and that is portion of what I do, too. So I similar to beryllium afloat immersed successful the full experience.” – Denver vocalist Devan Blake Jones, who was a Season 20 finalist connected “The Voice.”

Information and tickets

 Go to denverfilm.org

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VR Denver Film Festival 11-3-22 Gumball

Aja Duniven demonstrates 'Gumball Dreams,' a ticketed immersive acquisition wherever you and conscionable 2 different assemblage members sojourn alien creatures surviving retired their last days. The acquisition involves unrecorded actors who could beryllium taking portion from anyplace successful the world, Duniven said. Get the afloat docket of VR performances astatine denverfilmfestival.eventive.org

VR Denver Film Festival 11-3-22

The Denver Film Festival's “V.R. Arcade” is unfastened from 2-7 p.m. astir (but not all) days astatine the Tattered Cover Book Store. In 1 free, 15-minute acquisition called 'Kubo Walks the City,' you travel the footsteps of a Korean writer successful Seoul successful 1934, erstwhile Korea was nether Japanese occupation.

John Moore is the Denver Gazette's Senior Arts Journalist. Email him at john.moore@denvergazette.com

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