Opera has been featured (and made fun of) in cartoons for 95 years, from Mickey Mouse's The Opry House in 1929 to many episodes of The Simpsons today.

Internal promotions gave CCA Santa Fe a new leadership duo at its cinema program and they've already expanded screenings and launched new initiatives.

With the release of Maestro, we take a look at two other portrayers of celluloid conductors: Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours, a Preston Sturges masterpiece, and Leopold Stokowski playing Leopold Stokowski in One Hundred Men and a Girl.

In the new film Maestro, the focus is on the sometimes idyllic, more often challenged marriage between Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, featuring exceptional performances by Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan as the duo.

Pasatiempo and The New Mexican staffers serve streaming picks for when you're stuffed this Thanksgiving.

A new Ken Burns documentary hunts for answers to how colonization led to the destruction of wildlife in the West and its impact on Indigenous cultures.

Here's your weekly roundup of some of the must-see, must-do, must-know things that need to be on your radar this week.

A wall on Lena Street offers a glimpse inside the mind of experimental filmmaker Godfrey Reggio.

If you're a mother in need of an ego boost or are suffering from a Hallmark-induced diabetic Mother's Day swoon, Pasatiempo offers a film roundup that will have you feeling better in no time at all.

Actress Karen Allen will attend the Santa Fe Film Festival both to present her latest film, A Stage of Twilight, and accept an award recognizing her decades-long career. Allen, who began acting in 1973, shares her thoughts about the craft, losing people close to her, her latest film, being able to go incognito despite a famous face thanks to people's cellphone addictions, and what makes her laugh.

Beginning in the 1500s, the Spanish seized 10-year-old boys in what's now New Mexico and trained them to serve as militias to protect the Spanish from raiding Utes and Comanches. The boys, referred to as genízaros, were stripped of their tribal identity and left without a place to go when they were freed years or decades later. Gary Medina Cook's documentary The Genízaro Experience — Shadows in Light sheds light on their history.

Robert Gottlieb, 91, is the subject of an engaging documentary, Turn Every Page, about his 50-year editing relationship with Robert Caro, 87, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker

A novelist observes a murder trial for her new book and finds herself deeply connected to the accused in this award-winning French film from first-time writer-director Alice Diop.

Bill Nighy anchors screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro's elegant adaptation of the 1952 Kurosawa film Ikiru.

A group of misfits find a family in Broker, Hirokazu Koreeda's unexpectedly heartwarming road movie about baby sellers.

Margot Robbie delivers a fearless performance in Babylon as a cocaine-addled ingenue, but her character is ultimately abandoned by Damien Chazelle's mash-up of a story.

In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Antonio Banderas returns as the fabled feline swashbuckler in an amusing-ish animated adventure.

The actor's smart, humane and vulnerable central performance in The Whale is weighed down by Darren Aronofsky's mawkish adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter's play.

The nature documentary Wildcat follows the stories of three trauma survivors in the Amazon jungle: an ex-soldier, a wildlife rehabilitator, and an adorable wildcat.

The highly anticipated sequel to James Cameron's Avatar is a sometimes-beautiful bore.

Will Smith plays a man feeing the horrors of slavery in Antoine Fuqua's Civil War chase film.

Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge star in the romantic dramedy Spoiler Alert, based on Michael Ausiello's memoir of life with husband Kit Cowan.

David Harbour plays an avenging Santa Claus in this noirish and occasionally hilarious home-invasion thriller Violent Night.

Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's latest film captures the beauty of the world and the cruelty of humankind.

The FX on Hulu adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's novel stars Mallori Johnson as a 21st-century Black woman who time-travels back to a 19th-century plantation.

In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, documentarian Laura Poitras presents a compelling, if one-sided, portrait of photographer Nan Goldin.

Baltimore film icon John Waters isn't visiting to help ensure Santa Feans like Christmas. His holiday one-man show, which he has been performing since 1996, is aimed more at helping them survive it.

Studios trot out bigger and better movies for the holidays.

Jonathan Majors and Glen Powell star in the fact-based tale of a friendship between Korean War aviators.

The third and final season of the Netflix dramedy Dead to Me is a fitting if uneven ending to a compelling story about female friendship and loss.

Maria Schrader's She Said is an engrossing depiction of the reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein and ignited the #MeToo movement.

Season 2 of Mike White's award-winning covid-era creation The White Lotus might feel like a slight rehash, but includes enough new ideas to make it worthwhile.

Marvel sequel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever covers up its inability to move on by resorting to repetitive action sequences, maudlin emotion, and an uninvolving, occasionally incoherent story.